The fellowship provides $35,000 for the academic year beginning this summer, as well as funds for research costs and university fees. 

Yasemin Ozer for “Syrian Lives Beyond the Refugee Camp: Urban Belonging and Improvising Care in Istanbul,” an ethnography of ethics and care practices based on a year of research in Istanbul’s “Little Syria” neighborhoods.

Amir Reicher for “Between Two Messiahs: An Ethnography of Outpost Settlers in the West Bank,” which draws on 20 months of fieldwork in the area to explore the paradoxical relationship between the settlers and the state.

China Sajadian for “Debts of Displacement: Syrian Refugee Farmworkers at the Lebanese-Syrian Border,” based on ethnographic research in the Lebanese-Syrian borderlands that explores “debts of displacement” from Syrian farmworkers’ loss of seasonal mobility during the Syrian war.