Past Fellows

Raphael Soifer Newsletters

  • July 1, 2008
  • Raphael Soifer

Fellowship Years: 2007 – 2009 Fellowship Area(s): Brazil Performing Politics in São Paulo Places of Performance: Images and Ideas from the Hemispheric Institute Encuentro Playing to the Streets in the “City of Walls:” Intersections of Art, ­Resistance and Urban Change – Part One Playing to the Streets in the “City of Walls:” Intersections of Art, ­Resistance and

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Leena Khan Newsletters

  • June 8, 2008
  • Leena Khan

Fellowship Years: 2001-2003 Fellowship Topic: Pakistani Women Fellowship Area: Pakistan Glimpses of a City by the Sea Women’s Action Forum (WAF): Women’s Activism and Politics in Pakistan Breaking the Silence on Sectarian Violence: Women Raise their Voices A Woman’s Call for Restraint, Reflection and Introspection A Time to Weave, A Time to Remember Hazara Refugee Women of Quetta:

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Nicholas Schmidle Newsletters

  • January 1, 2008
  • Nicholas Schmidle

Fellowship Years: 2006-2008 Fellowship Topic: Ethnic, sectarian, and national identity Fellowship Area: Pakistan Calling Home: A Story About the MQM in Pakistan Blood Brothers: The Sectarian Story in Pakistan Face-Off: Peacock Nationalism on the Pakistan-India Border Migration Season: The Taliban and their Expanding Influence in Pakistan Brand Games: Polo and Privatization in the Hindu Kush Mountains Reform School:

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Kay Dilday Newsletters

  • December 7, 2007
  • Kay Dilday

Fellowship Years: 2006-2008 Fellowship Topic: The relationships of French and North African immigrants in France and in North Africa Fellowship Area: France, Morocco Knocking on France’s Door The Good Immigrant Street Life in Fes Particularism Summer of Sarko To Be or Not to Be African The Republic Rap Gets Political World Islam on Trial: French Muslims, Charlie Hebdo

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Jill Winder Newsletters

  • August 1, 2006
  • Jill Winder

Fellowship Years: 2004-2006 Fellowship Topic: German Art Fellowship Area: Germany Lost on Rosenthalerstraße: An Introduction to Berlin Through its Architecture “Wir sind das Volk”: Monday Demonstrations 1989 and Today What’s in a Name? The Friedrich Christian Flick Collection and the Story of One German Family Not Yet Europe, Part One Not Yet Europe, Part II Art and Terror

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Cristina Duschek Newsletters

  • March 31, 2006
  • Cristina Duschek

Fellowship Years: 2004-2006 Fellowship Topic: Romania’s Struggle to Recover Fellowship Area: Romania Back to Romania: Finding my Ithaca Welcome to Bucharest: The Wild East Romanian Women in Transition Heroes of Romanian Sports in Transition “Sports For All in Romania: Mens Insana in Paix Insana” The Worst of Times, the Best of Times for Romanian Media: Part I The

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Andrew J. Tabler Newsletters

  • March 25, 2005
  • Andrew Tabler

Fellowship Years: 2005 – 2006 Fellowship Area(s): Lebanon, Syria, Egypt The Gathering Storm Rally ’round the Flag When the Press Gathers in Damascus The Tsunami The Ties That Unwind Op Ed: How to Deal with Syria: Find out who’s in Charge Lebanon’s Twilight Zone Hizbollah: Besides God’s Party, Whose? Blowing off Steam Democracy to the Rescue Making

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Matthew Wheeler Newsletters

  • December 1, 2004
  • Matthew Wheeler

Fellowship Years: 2002-2004 Fellowship Topic: Relations among and between nations along the Mekong River Fellowship Area: Thailand Thailand and Terrorism After Bali On the Border with Colonel Kurtz Thoughts from Bangkok on the Anti-Thai Riot in Phnom Penh Viva Mong La! Shan State of Mind: Kengtung From Marketplace to Battlefield: Counting the Costs of Thailand’s Drug War Mr.

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Alexander J. Brenner Newsletters

  • May 25, 2004
  • Alex Brenner

Fellowship Years: 2003 – 2005 Fellowship Area(s): China Who’s Worrying about SARS, and Why The Feel-Good Gap The Ikea-Man Cometh: Globalization and the Creation of a Chinese Middle Class Take A Number: Peasants, Urbanites and the Greatest Migration Migrants and the Dangers of Namelessness, Part 1 Migrants and the Dangers of Namelessness, Part 2 The Expert and the

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James Workman Newsletters

  • December 6, 2003
  • James Workman

Fellowship Years: 2001-2003 Fellowship Topic: Southern Africa Water Issues Fellowship Area: Nambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botwana, South Africa, Egypt, Lesotho Water Meter Wars: Privatization, Protests and Renegade Plumbers Knifing Opportunists: The Struggle to Fill the Vacuum Africa’s First Regulated River Smuggling for the San: Water as a Weapon in the Central Kalahari Rules of the Game: Rifles, Rhino and

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