Contentious Knowledge Theme Project
Seed Grant Awards

During April 2007, the team sponsored a seed grant competition for graduate students who are working on topics related to the theme project. The awards support 11 graduate students who are in the early stages of defining their dissertation topics and require financial support for direct research costs, such as acquiring data, traveling to archives, or conducting preliminary field research. Grant recipients are encouraged to participate and present their research in the seminars of the theme project during the 2007-08 academic year.

Recipients of Awards

Jamie Bleck	Government	Non-State Service Provision as Contentious Politics
Richard Bownas	Government	Transnational Politics of Genetically Modified Crops
Adriana Chira	Anthropology	Nanotechnology and the Future of Knowledge in Post-Socialist Romania
Marion Dixon	Development Sociology	Modernist Discourses and the Reframing of Peasant Struggles
Anna Geltzer	Science & Technology	Changing Conceptions of What Counts as Valid Clinical Trial Evidence in Modern Russian Medical Practice
Jennifer Hadden	Government	Environmental Organizations and European Collective Action: Shifting Patterns of Participation in European Politics and Policy Making
Stefanie Hufnagel-Eichiner	Natural Resources	Organizational Change for Sustainable Agriculture and its Contestation in the Corn Belt of the Mississippi River Basin
Manjari Mahajan	Science & Technology	Science, Citizenship and Dissent: The AIDS Epidemics in South Africa and India
Nicole Nelson	Science & Technology	Controversial Methodology: Debates About Research Method in Behavior Genetics
Tina Shrestha	Anthropology	NGOs and the Politics of 'Gender and Development' in the Making of 'Modern' Nepal
Jonathan Ying	ILR	Plenary What? Sovereignty, Race, and the Immigration Debate

 

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