This year the Graduate Center has offered 74 doctoral candidates dissertation fellowships, with 8 cultural anthropology students among them!

• The Center for Place, Culture and Politics Dissertation Fellowship ($10,000)

Emine Busra Unluonen for “In Search for a Good Life: Post-Ottoman Conditions, Neo-Ottomanizing Space, and Political Imagination In-Between”

• The Committee for Globalization and Social Change Dissertation Fellowship/Dissertation Year Fellowship ($25,000)

Chinonye Alma Otuonye for “Remembering the Future: Race, Religion, and the Political Dreams of Biafra”

• Dissertation Year Fellowship ($25,000)

Nehal Amer for “Urban Futures and Desert Development in Greater Cairo: Capital, Power, and Subjectivity in a Global City”

Vladimir Gurewich for “Back to the Block: The politics of art in New York City from George Floyd to Palestine”

Pere Nogues Martin for “The making of a lithium frontier: mining, conflict and identity in Bolivia’s Uyuni Salt Flat”

Lilianna Quiroa-Crowell for “Forgotten Invisibility: Mapping the erasure and resistance of urban Q’eqchi’ women in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala”

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

Thayer Hastings for “Inhabiting the “Center of Life” in Jerusalem and the Demographic Governance of non-Citizenship”

• Mellon-Sawyer Grant Dissertation Fellowship, Transpacific Thought and the Problem of Asia ($30,000)

Karen Hui for “Anxious Futures: middle-class parenting in contemporary China”