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Alexander J. Brenner Newsletters

Fellowship Years: 2003 – 2005 Fellowship Area(s): China Who’s Worrying about SARS, and Why The Feel-Good Gap The Ikea-Man Cometh: Globalization and the Creation of a Chinese Middle Class Take A Number: Peasants, Urbanites and the Greatest Migration Migrants and the Dangers of Namelessness, Part 1 Migrants and the Dangers of Namelessness, Part 2 The Expert and the […]

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James Workman Newsletters

Fellowship Years: 2001-2003 Fellowship Topic: Southern Africa Water Issues Fellowship Area: Nambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botwana, South Africa, Egypt, Lesotho Water Meter Wars: Privatization, Protests and Renegade Plumbers Knifing Opportunists: The Struggle to Fill the Vacuum Africa’s First Regulated River Smuggling for the San: Water as a Weapon in the Central Kalahari Rules of the Game: Rifles, Rhino and […]

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Martha Farmelo Newsletters

Fellowship Years: 2001-2003 Fellowship Topic: Gender dynamics and equality Fellowship Area: Argentina Spaceship to Argentina: Observations Upon Landing Spaceship to Argentina: Observations Upon Landing II The End of Machismo? Women in the Argentine Senate Boost Their Number Six-fold–And No One Blinks an Eye A Seizure or a Birth? Pots Clang, a President Falls and 30 Die as Argentines […]

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Peter Keller Newsletters

Fellowship Years: 2000-2002 Fellowship Topic: National and Private Parks in Chile and Argentina Fellowship Area: Argentina, Chile The Race for Machu Picchu Initial Impressions of Chile The Futaleufú River – Part 1: To be or not to be damned? Chile’s Temperate Rainforest: A Critical Review of a Proposal To Turn Native Forests into Wood Chips Puyehue National Park […]

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Curt Gabrielson Newsletters

Fellowship Years: 2001 – 2002 Fellowship Area(s): East Timor, Indonesia, USA The Youngest Nation Building From the Ground Up: Education in New East Timor An Island Full of Languages First Impressions of the UN in East Timor Cloudy Waters: A Political Primer of East Timor U.S. Responsibility in the West Timor Refugee Crisis A Long and Rocky […]

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Gregory Feifer Newsletters

Fellowship Years: 2000-2002 Fellowship Topic: Politics and Culture Fellowship Area: Russia Russia’s New Millennium Reading Moscow’s Architectural Text Moscow’s New Bolshevism Irkutsk’s Cold Spring Samara’s Hope for Reform Advertising in Moscow Russian Media and Political Turf Wars Otherwise Engaged: Crime and Punishment in Moscow A Dose of Medicine: Animation in Putin’s Russia Searching for Mammoths on Taimyr Prelude […]

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Jean-Benoit Nadeau Newsletters

Fellowship Years: 1998-2000 Fellowship Topic: France and Globalization Fellowship Area: France Something Has Changed Suspicious Move An Infidel at the Mosque The World is their Terroir Dirty Business La Francophonie: Is it Franco-Phoney? Why the French Resist Globalization: Setting the Terms Of Bones, Caves and History The Many Faces of France War Time Memories Part I: The Persecution […]

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Whitney Mason Newsletters

Fellowship Years: 1998-2000 Fellowship Topic: Turkey’s role as a nexus between east and west and traditional and secular Islam. Fellowship Area: Turkey Rowing Through the Byzantium and Further Initiatory Misadventures Among Young Turks Races with Wolfs Macedonian Questions Welcome to Bulgaria 2000 What Makes the Wolves Howl and What are they Howling For? The Meaning of Virtue: A […]

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