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Fellowships & Project Grants
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Dissertation Fellowships
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Past Dissertation Fellowships
2010-11
Thomas Nail, Philosophy.
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"Migrants, Nomads, and Citizens," Nail examines the theory and structure of the social movements of non-status persons and their allies. He argues that we must reconceive some fundamental political concepts as well as our immigration policies, including democracy, rights and security policies, toward a more open concept of citizenship. His work has important implication for both the theory and policy on immigration and citizenship.
Patrick Hayden, Anthropology.
Hayden's research, "Public Employee Unions and the Cultural Politics of the State," evaluates public employee unions as actors in Oregon's political economy. This project juxtaposes the political autobiographies of public employees with cultural representations of unions and government, in an attempt to understand their reciprocal influence. The research attempts to unearth embedded social values that both frame and outlast election cycles, but also to catalog forms of democratic citizenship beyond electoral politics.
2009-10
Shangrila Joshi Wynn, Geography and Environmental Science.
Wynn's research examined issues of equity and justice in climate change policy with a focus on the role of India in international negotiations. She addressed the challenges of reconciling ecological justice and international equity.
2008-09
Camille Walsh, History.
Walsh's dissertation, "Class, Race, and Claiming the Right to Equal Education, 1874-1974," traces the legal history of modern de facto school segregation as the product of both racial and economic inequality. It explores how class and race are treated differently under the law, and how better to understand the ongoing challenge of educational equity in the law.
Veta Schlimgen, History.
Schlimgen's dissertation, "From Insular Subjects to Colonial Aliens: Sovereignty, Citizenship and Filipino America from 1900 to 1950" analyzes a rarely-explored civil status between citizen and alien, the status of “American national” that is used for certain citizens.
Jen Erickson, History.
Erickson's dissertation,
"Citizenship, the State, and Resistance: Refugees and Social Service Organizations in the Midwest United States," explores how social citizenship in the United States is mediated and experienced among immigrant and refugee groups. The locus of the study is Bosnian and Sudanese refugees living in Fargo, North Dakota. She examines how public and private social service agencies categorize refugees and the varied ways in which ideas about citizenship are felt, contested, and perpetuated.
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