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Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Program
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| No. | Name, Designation Home Institution | Area of Study | Indian Host Institution | Duration of Grant and Start Date |
| 1. |
Ms.
Rachel Ball (2010-11 Boston College Massachusetts |
Study
of India
(Modern
History)
(Bombay
and the Politics of Religion, 1930-1966)
|
Shreemati
Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University,
Mumbai
|
Duration: 9 months August 2011 |
| 2. |
Ms.
Glenna Barlow Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, Virginia |
Study
of India
(Art
and Architectural History)
(Tracing
Motifs: Contemporary Indian Folk Art in Religious Festivals)
|
University
of Mumbai, Mumbai
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 3. |
Mr.
David Boyk University of California Berkeley, California (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Study
of India
(History,
Modern)
(The
City and the Mofussil: Provinciality and Urbanity in North India,
1858-1960)
|
Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi
|
Duration: 9 months September 2011 |
| 4. |
Mr.
Bogdan Conrad Saint Olaf College Northfield, Minnesota |
Public Health (Leprosy: stigma and biological response) |
Schieffelin
Institute of Health Research and Leprosy Center, Karigiri,
Vellore, Tamil Nadu
|
Duration: 9 months August 2011 |
| 5. |
Mr.
Anthony Cordaro University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania |
Study
of India
(Anthropology)
(Fitting
Into the Grid: An Ethnography of Migrant Communities in Urban
Punjab)
|
Panjab
University, Chandigarh
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 6. |
Ms.
Kerala Cowart Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Environment
Law
(Shades
of Saffron and Green: Participatory Reforms and Environmental
Governance in India)
|
Tata
Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 7. |
Ms.
Sneha Desai At-Large, California |
Study
of India
(Creative
Writing)
("Hindi-Urdu
Poetry Today: Young Writers and Their Traditions)
|
Center for the Study of Developing Societies Delhi |
Duration: 9 months August 2011 |
| 8. |
Ms.
Alexandra Dietz School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Illinois |
Study
of India (Photography)
(Photographing
the Positive Impact of Micro Loans on The Women of Indian)
|
University
of Calcutta, Kolkata,
West Bengal
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 9. |
Mr.
James Daniel Elam Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Study of India (Communications) (Circulation of Anticolonial Thought and Indian Cosmopolitanism, 1900-1920) |
University
of Delhi, Delhi
|
Duration: 9 months September 2011 |
| 10. |
Ms.
Reena Esmail Yale University New Haven, Connecticut |
Study of India (Music Composition) (Integrating the Elements and Methods of Indian and Western Classical Music) |
University
of Delhi
New
Delhi
|
Duration: 9 months August 2011 |
| 11. |
Mr.
Harry Fischer University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Ph.D. Candidate |
Energy,
Sustainable Development and Climate Change
(Geography)
(Democracy
and Equity in Water Access in the Indian Himalayas)
|
Ambedkar
University
New
Delhi
|
Duration: 9 months September 2011 |
| 12. |
Mr.
Christopher Fleming Whitman College Walla Walla, Washington |
Study
of India (Theology & Religion)
(Path
of Purification: A Textual Ethnography of Contemporary Jain
Philanthropy)
|
International
Institute of Jain Studies, Delhi
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 13. |
Ms.
Rachel Fleming University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Education (Anthropology) (Education, Technology, and New Career Aspirations for Young Women in Bangalore) |
GK
Karanth, Institute for Social and Economic Change
Bengaluru,
Karnataka
|
Duration:
9 months
November
2011
|
| 14. |
Ms.
Jennifer Geiger University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, MI |
Public
Health
(Arsenic-contaminated
drinking water: Poisoning child development in West Bengal?)
|
University
of Calcutta, Kolkata
|
Duration: 9 months August 2011 |
| 15. |
Mr.
Adam Green New York University New York, New York (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Study of India (Archeology) (Reconstructing Administrative Technologies in the Indus Civilization) |
National
Museum, New Delhi
|
Duration:
9 months
September
2011
|
| 16. |
Ms.
Sandra Gresl University of Washington Seattle, Washington |
Study
of India
(Law)
(Local
and Transnational Advocacy Strategies to Support Survivors of
Domestic Violence)
|
SWAYAM
Kolkata.
West Bengal
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 17. |
Mr.
Finnian Moore Gerety Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Study of India (Classical Languages and Literature) (Soma Songs: Nambudiri Samaveda) |
Sree
Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Ernakulam, Kerala
|
Duration: 9 months October 2011 |
| 18. |
Mr.
Gregory Goulding University of California, Berkeley, CA (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Study of India (Language and Literature) (Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh and Hindi Literature after Independence) |
Center
for the Study of Developing Societies
Delhi
|
Duration: 9 months June 2011 |
|
19. |
Ms. Melissa Heer
University of Minnesota Minneapolis,Minnesota (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Study of India Art and Architectural History (Re-staging History: Postcolonial Photographic Reenactment in Contemporary India) |
American
Institute for Indian Studies Center for Art and Archeology
Gurgaon, Haryana
|
Duration: 9 months September 2011 |
| 20. |
Ms.
Victoria Hewitt Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey |
Environment Engineering (Advanced Treatment of Industrial Wastewater) |
Indian
Institute of Technology
Kanpur,
Uttar Pradesh
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 21. |
Ms.
Britain Hopkins At-Large, Texas |
Agriculture Sciences (Agricultural Alternatives and Communities: Organic Foods in India) |
Navdanya
Trust
Dehradun,
Uttarakhand
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 22. |
Ms.
Tania James At-Large, District of Columbia |
Study of India (Creative Writing) (Wives, Daughters, Athletes: Women and the Snake Boat Races of Kerala) |
Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi |
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 23. |
Ms.
Manjot Jassal Howard University Washington, D.C. |
Public Health (Impact of Education on Awareness and Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections) |
National
Council of Educational Research and Training
New
Delhi
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 24. |
Ms.
Anna Johnson University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin |
Study of India (Theology & Religion) (Islamic Law and the Buddha's rules: Comparative ethics in Tibetan diasporic communities) |
Central
University of Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 25. |
Mr.
Luke Juran University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Energy, Sustainable Development and Climate Change (Geography) (Water and Sanitation within Disaster Reconstruction: Post-Tsunami South India) |
Indian
Institute of Technology-Madras,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
|
Duration: 9 months August 2011 |
| 26. |
Ms.
Virginia LeBaron University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Public Health (Exploring the Impact of Opioid Availability on Nurse Moral Distress) |
M
N J Institute of Oncology and Regional Cancer Center
Hyderabad,
Andhra Pradesh
|
Duration: 9 months October 2011 |
| 27. |
Ms.
Sara Lewis Columbia University New York, New York (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Study of India (Anthropology) (Buddhism and Coping Among Tibetan Refugees Living in Northern India) |
Library
of Tibetan Works and Archives
Dharamsala,
Himachal Pradesh
|
Duration: 9 months August 2011 |
| 28. |
Ms.
Eliza Little Yale University New Haven, Connecticut |
Energy, Sustainable Development and Climate Change (Urban Development and Planning) (Linking Urbanization, Climate Change, Infectious Disease, and Adaptive Design) |
Ashoka
Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
Bengaluru,
Karnataka
|
Duration: 9 months August 2011 |
| 29. |
Ms.
Sana Maheshwari Cornell University Ithaca, New York |
Public Health (Medical Sciences) (Determinants of Deformity Correction: Observed as a Complex Model) |
Sri
Sri Borda Hospital and Community Health Center, Bhubaneshwar,
Orissa
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 30. |
Mr.
Eric McDermott San Diego State University, CA |
Public
Health
(Psychology)
(Neuropsychological
Assessments and Huntington's Disease)
|
National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru |
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 31. |
Ms.
Aaron McMullin At-Large, Colorado |
Agriculture
Sciences (Anthropology)
(Cotton
Farmers, Sustainability, and the Modernization of Agriculture: An
Ethnography)
|
Tata
Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
|
Duration: 9 months August 2011 |
| 32. |
Ms.
Alison Melnick University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Study
of India
(Theology
& Religion)
The
Legacy of Mingyur
Peldrön:
An 18th Century Author and Her Impact on Contemporary Women
|
Central University of Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh |
Duration: 9 months October 2011 |
| 33. |
Ms.
Robin Miniter Marist College Poughkeepsie, New York |
Study
of India
(Gender
Studies)
(Photodocumentation
of the emerging roles of female athletes in the Delhi region)
|
Aligarh
Muslim University
Aligarh,
Uttar Pradesh
|
Duration: 9 months August 2011 |
| 34. |
Ms.
Deonnie Moodie Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Study of India (Theology & Religion) (Contesting the Temple Kalighat in Contemporary Bengali Conceptual Worlds) |
University
of Calcutta
Kolkata,
West Bengal
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 35. |
Ms.
Alexandra Mouche Cornell University Ithaca, New York |
Environmental
Studies
(Narratives
of Western India’s Groundwater Recharge/Rainwater Harvest
Movement)
|
Institute
of Rural Management
Anand,
Gujarat
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 36. |
Mr.
Jordan Osserman Dartmouth College Hanover, North Hampshire |
Study
of India
(Anthropology)
(Transnational
Politics : The Question of an International LGBT Community)
|
Tata
Institute of Social Sciences,
Mumbai,
Maharashtra
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 37. |
Mr.
Dinyar Patel Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Study
of India
(History,
Cultural and Intellectual)
(The
Grand Old Man: Dadabhai Naoroji and the Contours of Indian
Nationalism)
|
Parzor
Foundation
New
Delhi
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
|
38. |
Mr.
Andrew Pettit University of California Los Angeles, California Ph.D. Candidate |
Study
of India
(Ethnomusicology)
(Talent
and Practice: The Ineffable and the Real in Hindustani Classical
Music)
|
American
Institute of Indian Studies, Gurgoan, Haryana
|
Duration:
9 months
October
2011
|
| 39. |
Mr.
John Pothen College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia |
Public
Health
(Interdisciplinary
Studies)
(Utilizing
Community Capacity to Sustainably Identify and Address Health
Concerns)
|
Comprehensive
Rural Health Project, Jamkhed, Dist. Ahmednagar Maharashtra |
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 40. |
Ms.
Eleanor Power Stanford University Menlo Park, California (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Study
of India
(Anthropology)
(Parading
the Urmakkal: Public Ritual Practice in Tamil Nadu)
|
Madurai
Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu
|
Duration: 9 months August 2011 |
| 41. |
Ms.
Erica Prochaska At-Large, Pennsylvania |
Public
Health
(A
Survey of Medicinal
Plants
Used in Maternal Health Care in the Garhwal Himalayas)
|
The
Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 42. |
Mr.
David Proffitt Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona |
Energy,
Sustainable Development and Climate Change
(Urban
Development and Planning)
(Mitigating
the urban heat island in Pune, India)
|
University
of Pune
Pune,
Maharashtra
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 43. |
Ms.
Catherine Prueitt Emory University Atlanta, Georgia (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Study
of India
(Philosophy)
(Dialogical
Accounts of Language and Experience in Yogacara and Kashmiri
Saiva Epistemology)
|
Central
University of Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 44. |
Mr.
Dimitri Putilin Duke University Durham, North Carolina (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Public
Health
(Psychology)
(Heart
and Soul: Exploring the Psychological Determinants of Heart
Health)
|
Banaras
Hindu University
Varanasi,
Uttar Pradesh
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 45. |
Ms.
Maya Ragavan Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Public Health (The Conceptualization of Intimate Partner Violence Amongst Women in Northern India) |
Action,
Research, and Training in Health (ARTH), Udaipur, Rajasthan
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 46. |
Mr.
John Round University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Agriculture
Sciences
(Engineering)
(A
Study of a Jatropha- Based Biofuel System in India)
|
The
Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, Andhra
Pradesh
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 47. |
Mr.
Rohit Setty University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Education (Shaping Teacher Education: India's New National Curriculum for Teacher Education) | Regional Institute of Education, Mysore, Karnataka |
Duration:
9 months
January
2012
|
| 48. |
Mr.
Bryant Shannon At-Large, Texas |
Public
Health
(Examining
the Impact of Health Education on Rural Indian Communities)
|
Kodaikanal
Christian College,
Kodaikanal,
Tamil Nadu
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 49. |
Mr.
Matthew Shutzer Northeastern University Evanston, Illinois |
Forestry
Environment
(Conservation
Entitlements and Cultural Spatiality: Forest Management in Kond
Culture)
|
Ravenshaw
University
Cuttack,
Orissa
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 50. |
Ms.
Kelly Sky University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon |
Environmental
Studies
(Increasing
the Sustainability of Forest Resource Use in Rural Communities)
|
Ashoka
Trust for Research in Ecology and the Envionment
Bengaluru,
Karnataka
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 51. |
Ms.
Janani Singaravelu Drexel University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Public
Health
(Adherence
to Antiretroviral and Antituberculous Therapy in HIV Patients
Coinfected with TB)
|
Christian
Medical College
Vellore,
Tamil Nadu
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 52. |
Ms.
Courtney Stephens At-Large, California |
Study
of India
(Filmmaking)
(A
Woman's Guide to the Hooghly)
|
Satyajit
Ray Film and Television Institute
Kolkata,
West Bengal
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
|
53. |
Ms.
Amy Tang Columbia University New York, New York (Ph.D. Candidate) |
Energy,
Sustainable Development and Climate Change
(Efficient
Development of Renewable Energy Infrastructure Using
Public-Private-Partnerships)
|
Indian
Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 54. |
Mr.
Erik Taylor Brown University Providence, Rhode Island(Ph.D. Candidate) |
Public Health (Medical Sciences) (Lipid Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Hospital Acquired Infections) |
Indian
Institute of Technology
Mumbai,
Maharashtra
|
Duration:
9 months
February
2012
|
| 55. |
Ms.
Kristen Teutonico Parsons The New School for Design New York, New York |
Environment
(Architecture)
(Physical,
Social, and Ecological Development in Mumbai’s Tansa River
Basin)
|
Kamla
Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental
Studies Mumbai, Maharashtra
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 56. |
Mr.
Aditya Voleti At-Large, Rhode Island |
Education
(Mathematics)
(Methods
of Proofing in the Sanskrit Mathematical Tradition)
|
Indian
Institute of Technology Bombay
Mumbai,
Maharashtra
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 57. |
Ms.
Devin Wardell University of Delaware Newark, Delaware |
Study
of India
(Interdisciplinary
Studies)
(Crafting
a Future: Enhancing Indian Hand-Weavers' Success in the Modern
Textile Market)
|
National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi |
Duration:
9 months
September
2011
|
| 58. |
Mr.
Nicholas Wertsch Georgetown University Washington, D.C. |
Study
of India
(Political
Science, Misc.)
(Energy
and Democracy in India: Balancing Community Rights with
Infrastructure Development)
|
Jawaharlal
Nehru University
New
Delhi
|
Duration:
9 months
August
2011
|
| 59. |
Mr.
Brian Wilson University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois Ph.D. Candidate) |
Study
of India
(Anthropology)
(Landscape,
Community, and Change in the Capital of the Portuguese Asian
Empire)
|
Archaeological
Survey of India, Goa
|
Duration: 9 months February 2012 |