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GSAS Fall 2007 Award Winners
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Dean's Dissertation Fellowship 

Vivek A. Bald  
American Studies 
Bengali Harlem and the Hidden Histories of South Asian New York, 1890-1965 

Anurima Banerji   
Performance Studies 
Odissi Dance: Paratopic Performances of Gender, Law and Nation 

On Barak   
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 
Egyptian Times: Temporality, Personhood and the Techno-Political Making of Modern Egypt 

Maggie E. Clinton  
History 
Cultural Revolution in Republican China, 1927-1937 

Mailan S. Doquang  
Fine Arts 
Rayonnant Chantry Chapels: Architectural Additions and Changing Contexts in French Gothic 

Yasmine El-Shamayleh   
Neural Science 
Studies of Macaque Visual Area V2 

Sonya H. Fix  
Linguistics 
Gender, ideology, and the negotiation of the racial(ized)self through language among white women with black social networks 

Yotam Gingold 
Computer Science 
Intuitive Surface Modeling via Multiresolution Curve Editing, Representing Surfaces with Generating Curves, and Shading Surface Detail 

Daniel Goldberg 
Mathematics 
Dynamic simulation and study of land ice-ice shelf interactions 

Hongzhou Gu   
Chemistry 
Scissors-Based Measurement of the Amount of Work by MutS Protein and Directed Binding and Error Correction of DNA Tile Associations 

Paul Hand 
Mathematics 
Two Reaction-Diffusion Problems from Biology 

Ronnie Jansson 
Physics 
Constraining the Galactic Magnetic Field from Multiple data sets 

Jenny O. Johnson 
Music 
Echoes, Timbres, and Synaesthesias: The Luminous Noise of Sexual Trauma and Broken Experience 

Rachel L. Kranson  
Hebrew and Judaic Studies 
Grappling with the 'Good Life': Jewish Anxieties Over Affluence in the Postwar Era 

Monika Krause 
Sociology 
Boundaries of the Universal: How Humanitarians Make Decisions about Relief 

Andres Link 
Anthropology 
Socio-Ecological Determinants of Fission-Fusion Sociality in White-Bellied Spider Monkeys (Ateles belzebuth) in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador  

Ido Liviatan   
Psychology 
Construal level approach to the similarity-attractive relationship 

Ashley Mears 
Sociology 
Pricing Beauty: The Gendered Production of Value in Fashion Modeling 

Lina Meruane 
Spanish and Portuguese 
Viral Voyages: Poetics of Contagion in the Latin American AIDS Literary Production (1980-2006) 

Jessie Morgan-Owens 
English 
Photographic Writing in the Literature of Abolition 

Pietro Salvatore Tommaso Ortoleva 
Economics 
Essays in Decision Theory 

Elizabeth J. Parks-Stamm  
Psychology 
Exclusion as self-protection: the function of subtypes for ingroup members 

Michelle M. Pinto  
French Studies 
French Administrative Education and the Reconfiguration of Africa, 1945-1960 

Marc'Aurelio Ranzato   
Computer Science 
Learning Hierarchies of Invariant Features 

Quinn Slobodian 
History 
Radical Empathy: The Third World and the New Left in 1960s West Germany 

Kirsten N. Sterner  
Anthropology 
Evolution of Primate Innate Immune Defense and Adaptation to Viral Infection 

Gwendolyn H. Taylor  
Politics 
The Microdynamics of Participation in Civil War 

Emily L. Thuma  
American Studies 
'Violence Against Women' and the Politics of Imprisonment: Feminist Citizenship, Race, and the State, 1968-2006 

Basak Tug
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Legal Administration of Sexuality and Gender: Institutional and Social Frontiers of the Illicit in the 18th-Century Ottoman Empire 

Sarah Tunney
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 
Medical Community in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt 

Jennifer L. Zwarich  
Cinema Studies 
From Document to Directive: Motion Picture Production in the U.S. Government, 1901-1942 


Dean's Dissertation Alternate

Haytham Bahoora 
Comparative Literature 
"Modernism Before Modernity"" Literature and Urban Form in Iraq 1950-1963" 

Sinan Dogramaci 
Philosophy 
Working Title:  Rational Belief 

John P. Murphy 
French Studies 
Through the Media Looking-Glass: Interpreting News and Negotiating Identity in France's Postindustrial Laboring Classes 

Fernando  Perez 
Comparative Literature 
"The Eye and the Ear": Patterns and Problems in Brazilian Concrete Poetry and its Paideuma" 

Sarah J Townsend  
Spanish and Portuguese 
The Unfinished Art of Theatre: Mass Publics and Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil, 1920-1940 

Elizabeth A Wright  
French 
Manuscript Meanings: Compilation, Transmission and Reception of Berte as Grans Pies 


Elaine Brody Fellowship
 

Stephanie Ponsavady 
French 
Fueling Discontent: Cars and Roads in Colonial Indochina 


James Arthur Fellowship
 

Shamik Dasgupta
Philosophy 
Measurement and Quantity 


Lane Cooper Fellowship
 

Ann M. Craig  
Spanish and Portuguese 
Going to Pieces: Women's Writing, Women's Bodies, and the Querelle des Femmes in Early Modern Spain 


Torch Fellowship
 

Rania Jawad 
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 
Performing Civil Society: Palestinian Citizens of Israel on Stage, Israel/ Palestine

Jan M. Padios  
American Studies 
Cultures of Consumption in the Phillipines: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives, Phillipines

Gail J. Super  
Law and Society 
Fractured Freedom: State Discourses About Crime in South Africa, 1976-2004, South Africa

 

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