JENNIFER CHIEN, then a student at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, received funding in May 2010 to aid research on 'Corporate Social Responsibility and Community Development in China,' supervised by Dr. Ralph Litzinger. From September 2010 to July 2011, this research investigated the forms of collective identities emerging within migrant communities along with the phenomenon of Corporate Social Responsibility or 'CRS' in Beijing, China.

JUNJIE CHEN, then a student at University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, received funding in June 2004 to aid research on 'When the State Claims the Intimate: Population Control and Constructions of Rural Identity in China,' supervised by Dr. Alma Gottlieb.

XENIA A. CHERKAEV, then a student at Columbia University, New York, New York, received a grant in May 2010 to aid research on 'I Don't Know Why, but that One Wants Me: The Saturation of Use and the Agency of Things in Russia,' supervised by Dr. Elizabeth A. Povinelli. In 2011, Putin warned that the American-funded political opposition would falsify the election results' falsification, and might kill someone off, to blame the government.

Preliminary abstract: In a digital media landscape where the privacy and property rights of Internet users are dominated by market ideologies about consumer choice and the legitimacy of systematic violation of these rights, in exchange for free content or services, there may exist an alternate model of engagement - one of competition, but also of complementarity; of commodity exchange, but also of mutual obligation.

MARY KATHRYN GROSSMAN, then a student at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, was awarded funding in November 2009, to aid research on 'Recentering the Ninevite 5 Economy: Archaeological Investigations at Hamoukar, Syria,' supervised by Dr. Gil J. Stein. Recent archaeological studies of ancient urban societies have drawn attention to the new kinds of social, political, and economic relationships that came into existence as cities emerged and developed.

Preliminary Abstact: How did Western Amazonia become an object of knowledge? And how did that object of knowledge become 'Ecuadorian' or 'Peruvian?' This dissertation project addresses these two questions by examining (1) the techniques of Jesuit and Franciscan mapping of the Western Amazon basin between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries and (2) the scientific means by which early postcolonial Peruvians and Ecuadorians imagined national spaces.

Preliminary abstract: In the present context of state violence in Mexico, how is the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) constructing the legal Truth when judging crimes against indigenous peoples in which the state is involved? What is the significance of the politics of testimony for how indigenous peoples are re-conceiving their struggles in relation to the indigenous rights' discourse?

KERRY RYAN CHANCE, then a student at University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, was awarded a grant in May 2008 to aid research on 'Living Politics: New Practices and Protests of the 'Poor' in Democratic South Africa,' supervised by Dr. John L. Comaroff. This dissertation project examines how everyday practices and interactions between the state and residents of urban townships and shack settlements demarcate political life in democratic South Africa today, nearly two decades after the fall of apartheid.

VINEETA CHAND, then a student at University of California, Davis, California, received funding in October 2007 to aid research on 'Indian English Ownership, Status and Variation,' supervised by Dr. Janet Shibamoto Smith. This research addressed the Indian English (IE) socio-cultural linguistic setting, examining the relationship between structural variation, identity, attitudes and personal history for New Delhi English bilinguals.

Preliminary abstract: This study will focus on how since Pakistan's independence in 194, irrigation systems, dam building, and water management in the Upper Punjab area have affected the lives of the Indus Delta's fishing community. Through an ethnographic study of three sites--Doulat Dablo, Keti Bandar, and Rehri Goth in the southern province of Sindh--I seek to document how the Delta population and the landscape has changed due to the implementation of the existing water management practices.