NOTE:
Dissertation titles are subject to change. The titles reflected here were correct at the time the awards were made.
The Charlotte W. Newcombe
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
The 2012 Newcombe Dissertation Fellows
Mont Allen • Art History, University of California, Berkeley
The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi
Chloe Bakalar • Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Small Talk: The Socialities of Speech in Liberal Democratic Life
Geoff Bakken • Sociology, University of Wisconsin
“Let’s take our country back!” The Tea Party Movement in the American Political Field
Sarah Bakker • Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Fragments of a Liturgical World: Syriac Christianity and the Dutch Multiculturalism Debates
Prithviraj Datta • Political Science, Harvard University
Freedom of Association and the Promise of Progressive Political Theory
Daniela Dover • Philosophy, New York University
The Ethics of Persuasion and Argument
Joshua Gedacht • Modern World History, University of Wisconsin
Islamic-Imperial Encounters: Colonial Warfare, Coercive Cosmopolitanism, and Religious Reform in Southeast Asia—1801-1941
Robert Harkins • Modern World History, University of California, Berkeley
The Politics of Persecution: Religious Conformity and Republican Obedience in England, 1553-1603
Kelly Heuer • Philosophy, Georgetown University
How to Do Things with Reasons: Agency, Value, Choice
Maha Jafri • English Literature, Northwestern University
“The Town’s Talk”: Gossip, Sociability, and the Victorian Novel
Theresa Keeley • American History, Northwestern University
Reagan’s Gun-Toting Nuns: Catholicism and U.S.-Central American Relations
G.A. Lipton • Religion, University of North Carolina
Making Islam Fit: Ibn ‘Arabi and the Idea of Sufism in the Secular Age
Betty Nguyen • Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin
Buddhist Calamity Cosmologies: Being Virtuous in an Immoral World
Megan Cole Paustian • Literatures in English, Rutgers University
Narratives of African Improvement: Missions, Humanitarianism, and the Novel
Bruno Reinhardt • Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Tapping into the Anointing: Power, Pedagogy and Ecclesiology in Ghanaian Bible Schools
Maxim Romanov • Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Public Preaching in Medieval Islam (900-1350 CE): Between “Clerical” and Popular Islams
Camisha Russell • Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University
The Assisted Reproduction of Race: Thinking through Race as a Reproductive Technology
Anelise H. Shrout • History, New York University
“Distressing News from Ireland”: The Famine, the News and International Philanthropy
Ronit Stahl • History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
God, War, and Politics: The American Military Chaplaincy and the Making of Modern American Religion
Bharat Venkat • Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Moral Failures: Co-Infected Histories and the Diagnostics of Disease in South India
Rose Wellman • Anthropology, University of Virginia
Feeding Moral Relations: the Making of Kinship and Nation in Iran