Current Fellows

Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Program

Name, Designation and Institution	Area of Study	Indian Host Institution	Duration of Grant and Start Date
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ms. Alexandra Mouche Cornell University Ithaca, New York	Environmental Studies (Narratives of Western India&rsquos Groundwater Recharge/Rainwater Harvest Movement)	Institute of Rural Management Anand, Gujarat	Duration: 9 months August 2011
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ms. Kristen Teutonico Parsons The New School for Design New York, New York	Environment (Architecture) (Physical, Social, and Ecological Development in Mumbai&rsquos Tansa River Basin)	Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies Mumbai, Maharashtra	Duration: 9 months August 2011
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
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
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
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