This year the Graduate Center has offered 76 doctoral candidates dissertation fellowships, with 7 anthropology students among them!

• The Committee for Globalization and Social Change Dissertation Fellowship ($10,000) and Dissertation Year Fellowship ($15,000)

Nandini Ramachandran for “Untimely Constitutions: The Sixth Schedule and the Politics of Recognition in Northeastern India”

• Dissertation Year Fellowship ($25,000)

Esra Padgett for “Transactional Values: Sex Work and Ethics at the Margins of Finance”

• Dissertation Year Award ($10,000)

Megan Henriquez for “Exploring the Genetic and Morphological Diversity of Gastrointestinal Parasite Communities in Wild Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus imitator)”

Deborah Philip for “Burgher (Be)longings: Race, Place and the Politics of Home in Colonial and Post-Colonial Sri Lanka”

Alexander Werner for “From Avant-Garde Revolutionary to Producer-Proprietor: The Artist and Socio-Economic Change in Cuba c. 1961-Present”

• Marilyn J. Gittell Dissertation Fellowship ($25,000)

Misty Crooks for “Democracy Redefined: Electoral Governance, Political Demobilization, and the Hope of Reform Activism”

• Mina Rees Dissertation Fellowship ($25,000)

Carly Batist for “Listening for Lemurs: Translating ruffed lemur vocalizations into conservation insights through acoustic monitoring”