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that will allow her to spend 2020-2021 doing her dissertation research in Israel. Trisha’s work focuses on the role of science and society in early twentieth century Palestinian society. She is advised by Tal Golan.
First, she won a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year to finish her dissertation project: “’Dope Hope’: The Synanon Foundation, Grassroots Recovery Activism, and Popular Struggles over Addiction Treatment, 1945-1980.” She also received a four-month research fellowship at the Huntington Library in San Marino (an institution that has been very kind to our department recently). She will officially be the Molina Fellow in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences and an Evelyn S. Nation Fellow. Jordan is co-advised by Rebecca Plant and Luis Alvarez.
He will use the time to revise his dissertation, Serve the People: Bovine Experiences in China's Civil War and Revolution, 1935-1961. His advisors are Karl Gerth and Paul Pickowicz.
He'll spend the year revising his dissertation entitled Martial Arts, Apocalypse, and Counterrevolutionaries: Secret Societies and Rural Governance in Modern China, 1919-1961 for manuscript publication. Yupeng is advised by Professor Paul Pickowicz and Professor Karl Gerth.
The NBR Chinese Language Fellowship will fund one year of advanced Chinese language training at Tsinghua University in Beijing, as well as supporting all living and travel expenses for the year. The Tsinghua University Inter-University Language Program is recognized as one of the top advanced Chinese language courses. Ben will use these advanced language skills to research and complete his dissertation entitled China's Dream of the Red Railway: Professional Railroaders and the Making of an Industrial Power, 1945-1976.
for the 2020/2021 academic year for her second book project: The Chichimeca Arc: War, Peace, and Resettlement in America’s First Borderlands, 1546- 1616. Dana will be in residence during her fellowship period at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.
which supports mid-career Humanities scholars who are interested in studying a new field in order to complement their research work. Mira’s current work focuses on cognitive discipline among the rabbis of late antiquity, and explores issues of memory, forgetfulness, distraction, and attention.