Each year, the Graduate Center Provost’s Office offers $4,000 summer awards to level II doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences. This fellowship program aims to support the development of a dissertation research proposal following the completion of the first exam.

This summer 2026, 12 PhD anthropology students will conduct research with the support of Graduate Center Provost’s Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowships:

Noor Dughri for “Libyan Exiles in England: Political Exile, Transitional resistance and a fragile Asylum”

Natalie Erazo for “Feminist Commoning During the 2021 Colombian National Strike: Cooperative Modes and Life-Affirming Politics”

Reina Gattuso for “Self-Transformation at the Interstices of Race, Caste, and Religion in Portuguese-Goan Yoga Tourism”

Louis Gorgone for “Socioendocrinology of Female Forest-Living Olive Baboons (Papio anubis)”

Madison Grant for “An exploration of socioecological impacts on the skeleton using novel approaches in primate endocrinology”

Jihyeon Kim for “Turning Entertainers into Assets: The Financial Infrastructure of Imperial Sex Economies in the post-Cold War Asia Pacific”

Elbunit Kqiku for “What Lies Below: Sensing Risk and the Remaking of Borders in Kosova’s Minefields”

Maya Latif for “Carceral Continuums: Transgenerational “Foreignness” and the Politics of Punishment in Germany”

Dylan Nytko for “Listening to the Unspoken: Disabled Voices in Racializing Medical Institutions”

Maria Monica Sosa Vasquez for “Fintech “From Below”: How Latin America’s Largest Digital Wallet Is Transforming Working-Class Everyday Life in Buenos Aires, Argentina”

Sumeja Tulic for “The State Otherwise: Universalist Imaginaries, Vernacular Practices, and the Bosniak Political Horizon”

Joseph Won for “The Evolution of Phalangeal Curvature across the Primate Order”

Moa Zachariah for “Farms or Forests? Settler Peasants and the Turn to Eco-development in Kerala, India”