Program

Research Programs: Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions

Period of Performance

7/1/2010 - 6/30/2014

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$321,000.00 (approved)
$321,000.00 (awarded)


ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships

FAIN: RA-50095-10

American Council of Learned Societies Devoted to Humanistic Studies (New York, NY 10017-6706)
Nicole A Stahlmann (Project Director: August 2009 to March 2014)
Steven C. Wheatley (Project Director: March 2014 to November 2014)

The equivalent of two twelve-month fellowships and one six-month fellowship a year for three years.

This proposal seeks funding from the NEH for the period July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2014 to support the ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships. The program is integrated into the central ACLS Fellowship competition in acknowledgement that multi-disciplinary research characterizes not only area studies but much work in the humanities in general; area studies scholarship benefits from evaluation in this larger context. Integration of the programs maximizes the number of NEH Fellows as they are supported both by grant funds and by ACLS endowment funds. This proposal requests funding for 15 fellowships per year to postdoctoral scholars working on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Eastern Europe, or the former Soviet Union in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences.





Associated Products

Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature (Book)
Title: Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature
Author: Anthony Cerulli
Abstract: In ayurvedic medical practice, the ways in which and the reasons why people become ill are often explained with stories. This book explores the forms and functions of narrative in Ayurveda, India's classical medical system. Looking at narratives concerning fever, miscarriage, and the so-called king's disease, the author examines how the medical narrative shifts from clinical to narrative discourse and how stories from religious and philosophical texts are adapted to the medical framework.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/somatic-lessons-narrating-patienthood-and-illness-in-indian-medical-literature/oclc/767825001&referer=brief_results
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781438443874

Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature (Book)
Title: Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature
Author: Anthony Cerulli
Abstract: no abstract provided
Year: 2012
Publisher: Albany: SUNY Press, 2012

Art Systems: Brazil and the 1970s (Book)
Title: Art Systems: Brazil and the 1970s
Author: Elena Shtromberg
Abstract: Analyzing key examples from Cildo Meireles, Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, Anna Bella Geiger, Sonia Andrade, Geraldo Mello, and others, the book offers a new framework for theorizing artistic practice. By focusing on the core economic, media, technological, and geographic conditions that circumscribed artistic production during this pivotal era, the author excavates an array of art systems that played a role in the everyday lives of Brazilians. An examination of the specific historical details of the social systems that were integrated into artistic production, this unique study showcases works that were accessed by audiences far outside the confines of artistic institutions. Proliferating during one of Brazil’s most socially and politically fraught decades, the works—spanning cartography to video art—do not conform to an easily identifiable style, form, material use, or medium. As a result of this breadth, Art Systems gives voice to the multifaceted forces at play in a unique chapter of Latin American cultural history.
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/art-systems-brazil-and-the-1970s/oclc/907556547&referer=brief_results
Publisher: Austin: University of Texas Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781477308585
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

The Pragmatics of Interrogation as a Declarative Evidential Strategy. (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: The Pragmatics of Interrogation as a Declarative Evidential Strategy.
Author: Victor Friedman
Abstract: Paper presented at the annual meeting for the International Pragmatics Association, Delhi, India.
Date: 9/10/13
Conference Name: Annual Meeting for the International Pragmatics Association

The Roles of Religion and Politics in Language Change in the Balkans (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: The Roles of Religion and Politics in Language Change in the Balkans
Author: Victor Friedman
Abstract: Paper presented at the Workshop on Intentional Language Change, University of Leiden, Netherlands.
Date: 9/28/13
Conference Name: Workshop on Intentional Language Change

Parallel Universes and Universal Parallels: Romani Evidential Strategies (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Parallel Universes and Universal Parallels: Romani Evidential Strategies
Author: Victor Friedman
Abstract: Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Societas Linguistica Europae, University of Split, Croatia.
Date: 9/18/13
Conference Name: Annual Meeting for the Societas Linguistica Europae

Militarized Nature At the Korean Demilitarized Zone (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Militarized Nature At the Korean Demilitarized Zone
Author: Eleana Kim
Abstract: Paper presented at the annual meeting for the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.
Date: 11/17/12
Conference Name: Annual Meeting for the American Anthropological Association

Ejidos Urbanos: Derechos de propiedad, reforma agraria y crecimiento urbano en el periodo en el siglo XX (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Ejidos Urbanos: Derechos de propiedad, reforma agraria y crecimiento urbano en el periodo en el siglo XX
Author: Moramay López-Alonso
Abstract: Paper presented at the Jornadas de Historia Económica, Mexico City, Mexico.
Date: 8/16/13
Conference Name: Jornadas de Historia Económica

Love All, Serve All’: Shirdi Sai Baba Devotion in the United States (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Love All, Serve All’: Shirdi Sai Baba Devotion in the United States
Author: Karline McLain
Abstract: Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia, PA.
Date: 3/29/14
Conference Name: Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies

Composite Culture, Religious Syncretism, and Shirdi Sai Baba Devotion (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Composite Culture, Religious Syncretism, and Shirdi Sai Baba Devotion
Author: Karline McLain
Abstract: Paper presented at the South Asia Institute speaker series, University of Texas, Austin.
Date: 4/27/13
Conference Name: South Asia Institute speaker series, University of Texas, Austin

Sanctifying Shirdi Sai Baba: Comparing the Hagiographies of Das Ganu and Narasimhaswami (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Sanctifying Shirdi Sai Baba: Comparing the Hagiographies of Das Ganu and Narasimhaswami
Author: Karline McLain
Abstract: Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Conference on the Study of Religions of India, Madison, New Jersey.
Date: 6/29/13
Conference Name: Conference on the Study of Religions of India

Female Voices in the Public Sphere: Playback Singing and Performance in South India (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Female Voices in the Public Sphere: Playback Singing and Performance in South India
Author: Amanda Weidman
Abstract: Paper presented at the Voice of Asian Modernities Project, Pittsburgh, PA.
Date: 4/4/14
Conference Name: Voice of Asian Modernities Project

Neoliberal Logics of Voice: Playback Singing and Public Femaleness in South India (Book Section)
Title: Neoliberal Logics of Voice: Playback Singing and Public Femaleness in South India
Author: Amanda Weidman
Abstract: This article explores the impact of neoliberal logics of voice on the music - making and performance practices of female playback singers in the South Indian Tamil film industry. As singers whose voices are first recorded in the studio and then “played back” on the set to be lip-synched by actors, playback singers have been professional musicians and public celebrities since the 1950s. Their careers are governed by practices of voice cultivation and by modes of performance and public self-presentation, in the studio, on stage, and increasingly in mediatized contexts. Since the 1990s, neoliberal logics of flexibility, entrepreneurship and self-marketing have redefined the role of the playback singer and the way singers conceive of their work in both social and aesthetic terms. These changes have occurred within a broader context in which anxieties about globalization and expanding commodity culture are reflected in debates about the place of women in public.
Year: 2014
Book Title: Culture, Theory and Critique

Anthropology and Voice (Article)
Title: Anthropology and Voice
Author: Amanda Weidman
Abstract: Voice is both a set of sonic, material, and literary practices shaped by culturally and historically specific moments, and a category invoked in discourse about personal agency, communication and representation, and political power. This review focuses on scholarship produced since the 1990s in a variety of fields, addressing the status of the voice within Euro-Western modernity, voice as sound and embodied practice, technological mediation, and voicing. It then turns to the ways in which anthropology and related fields have framed the relationship between voice and identity, status, subjectivity, and publics. The review suggests that attending to voice in its multiple registers gives particular insight into the intimate, affective, and material/embodied dimensions of cultural life and sociopolitical identity. Questions of voice are implicated in many issues of concern to contemporary anthropology, and can lend theoretical acuity to broader concepts of more general concern to social theory as well.
Year: 2014
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Annual Review of Anthropology

Eco - Imagination: African and Diasporan Literatures and Sustainability (Book)
Title: Eco - Imagination: African and Diasporan Literatures and Sustainability
Editor: Thelma Pinto
Editor: Irene D'Almeida
Editor: Lucie Viakinnou-Brinson
Abstract: abstract not available
Year: 2014
Publisher: Africa World Press
Type: Edited Volume
Copy sent to NEH?: No

Haiti, Free Soil, and Antislavery in the Revolutionary Atlantic (Article)
Title: Haiti, Free Soil, and Antislavery in the Revolutionary Atlantic
Author: Ada Ferrer
Abstract: abstract not available
Year: 2012
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: The American Historical Review

Between Communal Survival and National Aspiration: Armenian Genocide Refugees, the League of Nations, and the Practices of Interwar Humanitarianism (Article)
Title: Between Communal Survival and National Aspiration: Armenian Genocide Refugees, the League of Nations, and the Practices of Interwar Humanitarianism
Author: Keith David Watenpaugh
Abstract: abstract not available
Year: 2014
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: anity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development

The Human Rights Historian and the Trafficked Child Writing the History of Mass Violence and Individual Trauma (Article)
Title: The Human Rights Historian and the Trafficked Child Writing the History of Mass Violence and Individual Trauma
Author: Keith David Watenpaugh
Abstract: abstract not available
Year: 2013
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Perspectives on History : the Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association

Making Peace with Nature: The Greening of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (Blog Post)
Title: Making Peace with Nature: The Greening of the Korean Demilitarized Zone
Author: Eleana Kim
Abstract: Through my ongoing research on the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), I am engaging with broader questions about the “nature” of militarized landscapes and the production of their ecological value. In this piece, I examine how South Korean state and NGO projects configure the DMZ as a unique site of biodiversity that could provide the basis for sustainable development and also peace on the Korean peninsula. These projects, however, often depend upon a branding of the DMZ as a bounded space of pristine nature, disregarding the more complex social and political landscapes of the inter-Korean border region, of which the DMZ is just one part. This tendency to fetishize the DMZ and its “nature,” moreover, disguises the ways in which global capitalism, development, and militarization are affecting other parts of the border region, areas where the majority of what is known of the “DMZ’s biodiversity” exists.
Date: 06/25/2013
Primary URL: http://www.aaanet.org/sections/ae/index.php/eleanakim/
Blog Title: Engagement Blog of the Anthropology and Environment Society: A Section of the American Anthropological Association
Website: American Anthropological Association

Returning Cranes to North Korea: Eleana Kim on the Grus japonensis (Blog Post)
Title: Returning Cranes to North Korea: Eleana Kim on the Grus japonensis
Author: Eleana Kim
Abstract: Eleana Kim describes the politicized journey of survival of one of the largest bird species on the planet, and talks with Bernhard Seliger, representative of the Hanns Seidel Foundation in South Korea.
Date: 09/01/2012
Primary URL: http://sinonk.com/2012/09/01/returning-cranes-to-north-korea-grus-japonensis/
Blog Title: Sino NK: Environmental Issues
Website: Sino NK

The Flight of Cranes: Militarized Nature at the North Korea–South Korea Border (Article)
Title: The Flight of Cranes: Militarized Nature at the North Korea–South Korea Border
Author: Eleana Kim
Abstract: Conservation areas within the Korean demilitarized zone generate new “natures” that are deeply political and enmeshed in evolving relations among humans and nonhumans, as seen using the example of migratory cranes. The endangered cranes literally transcend geopolitical borders, providing hope for the surmounting of the ideological differences that separate North and South. At the same time, these cranes have exhibited rather remarkable adaptations to the conditions of the national division: they adapted to utilizing the T’ogyo Reservoir as a habitat in response to famine conditions in North Korea and hospitable feeding programs in Yangji village.
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://www.environmentandsociety.org/perspectives/2014/3/article/flight-cranes-militarized-nature-north-korea-south-korea-border
Primary URL Description: RCC Perspectives
Access Model: Open Access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Rachel Carson Center Perspectives
Publisher: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society

Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism (Book)
Title: Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism
Author: Keith David Watenpaugh
Abstract: Bread from Stones, by historian Keith David Watenpaugh, breaks new ground in analyzing the theory and practice of modern humanitarianism. Genocide and mass violence, human trafficking, and the forced displacement of millions in the early twentieth century Eastern Mediterranean form the background for this exploration of humanitarianism’s role in the history of human rights. Watenpaugh’s unique and provocative examination of humanitarian thought and action from a non-Western perspective goes beyond canonical descriptions of relief work and development projects. Employing a wide range of source materials—literary and artistic responses to violence, memoirs, and first-person accounts from victims, perpetrators, relief workers, and diplomats—Watenpaugh argues that the international answer to the inhumanity of World War I in the Middle East laid the foundation for modern humanitarianism and the specific ways humanitarian groups and international organizations help victims of war, care for trafficked children, and aid refugees. Bread from Stones is required reading for those interested in humanitarianism and its ideological, institutional, and legal origins, as well as the evolution of the movement following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the advent of late colonialism in the Middle East.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/bread-from-stones-the-middle-east-and-the-making-of-modern-humanitarianism/oclc/920399565?referer=di&ht=edition
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780520279322
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda (Book)
Title: The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda
Author: Jennifer Tappan
Abstract: More than ten million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda, longstanding efforts to understand, treat, and then prevent the condition initially served to medicalize it, in the eyes of both biomedical personnel and Ugandans who brought their children to the hospital for treatment and care. Medicalization meant malnutrition came to be seen as a disease - as a medical emergency - not a preventable condition, further compromising nutritional health in Uganda. Rather than rely on a foreign-led model, physicians in Uganda responded to this failure by developing a novel public health program known as Mwanamugimu. The new approach prioritized local expertise and empowering Ugandan women, blending biomedical knowledge with African sensibilities and cultural competencies. Tappan examines how over the course of half a century Mwanamugimu tackled the most fatal form of childhood malnutrition-kwashiorkor-and promoted nutritional health in the midst of postcolonial violence, political upheaval, and neoliberal resource constraints. She draws on a diverse array of sources to illuminate the interplay between colonialism, the production of scientific knowledge, and the delivery of health services in contemporary Africa.
Year: 2017
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/riddle-of-malnutrition-the-long-arc-of-biomedical-and-public-health-interventions-in-uganda/oclc/989063304&referer=brief_results
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780821422465
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes