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As a conduit for research
on global affairs the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
affords many opportunities to graduate students and post-docs in search
of fellowships. Several fellowships and internships are either available
directly from the Institute or are administered through specific projects
or affiliated centers.
The Ralph Bunche Dissertation Fellowship Award
This program makes doctoral dissertation year awards to minority CUNY students
whose research topic concerns a topic that was of particular interest
to Bunche - the United Nations and multilateralism, international politics,
African and Middle Eastern affairs, U.S. foreign policy, decolonization,
race relations, and human rights. This endowment was created in the late 1980s by the Institute
and a leadership committee headed by Hon. Co-chairs Mrs. Ralph J. Bunche,
Justice Arthur J. Goldberg, and Justice Thurgood Marshall for the purpose
of honoring the legacy of the late Nobel Laureate.
Winners of the Ralph Bunche Fellowships are:
- 2006-2007 Sumie Nakaya (Political Science), "Exclusion
and Violence in Post-Conflict States"
- 2005-2006 Peter Hoffman (Political Science), "The
Politics of Privatizing Protection in Humanitarian Operations: United
Nations, Humanitarian Agencies, and Private Military Company Interactions"
- 2004-2005 Rachel Sponzo (Anthropology), "Developing the Nation:
The Political Economy of Development in Eritrea"
- 2003-2004 John Guitierrez (History), "A Health Republic: Public Health and Politics in Cuba, 1898-1934"
- 2002-2003 Stephanie Sapiie (Political Science), "Culture
& Contention: The Student Movement in Indonesia since the 1960's"
- 2001-2002 Kee Howe Yong (Anthropology), "Cold
War Casualties: Relocation, Displacement, and the Paradoxical Independence
of Sarawak"
- 1999-2000 Tracy Fisher (Anthropology), "Women's
Grassroots Organizing and the State: Creating and Contesting 'Black'"
- 1998-1999 Marilynne Diggs-Thompson (Anthropology), "Deciphering
the Discourse of Fertility: Reproduction, Migration and Family Formation
in Guadeloupe"
- 1997-1998 Teresa Booker (Political
Science), "The Determinants of Strategies in the Delivery of Humanitarian
Assistance: The Case of Operation Lifeline Sudan"
Mellon Fellowships in
Security and Humanitarian Action
Established in 2002 with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
the Inter-University Consortium on Security and Humanitarian Action (IUCSHA)
pursues two primary concerns: to better understand the complexities of
humanitarian operations in the context of armed conflicts; and to invest
in the next generation of analysts in New York graduate institutions by
expanding cooperation and information exchange among such institutions
as well as between younger scholars and networks of intergovernmental
and non-governmental agencies. For more information on fellows' research
click the link above.
Most awards sponsored field work, but in 2006 a special one-time competition
was held to fund the write-up phase of five fellows.
2006 recipients of Mellon Dissertation Writing Fellowships in Security
and Humanitarian Action are:
- Séverine Autesserre (Politics, NYU) – "Local
Violence, International Indifference? Post-War Settlement in the Eastern
DRC (2003-2006)"
- Evren Balta (Political Science, CUNY) – "State
Capacity, State Failure, and Internal War-making in Russia and Turkey"
- Tatiana Carayannis (Political Science, CUNY) –
"Hybrid Wars, Conflict Networks, and Multilateral Responses: The
Congo Wars, 1996-2004"
- Peter Hoffman (Political Science, CUNY) – "The
New Politics of Protection: Humanitarian Agency-Private Military Company
Interactions and the Transformation of Humanitarianism"
- Julie Stewart (Sociology, NYU) – "To Help
or To Harm: How Transnational Ties Shape Communities in Post-War Guatemala"
2005 recipients of Mellon Fellowships in Security and Humanitarian Action are:
- Senior Research Fellow: Peter Hoffman (Political Science,
CUNY) – "Sword & Salve: War and Humanitarianism in Historical
Perspective "
- Research Fellow: James Cockayne (NYU Law School –"Commercial
Violence & State-Building: Lessons from Multilateral and Humanitarian
Experiences"
- Research Fellow: Hilla Dayan (Political Science, The
New School)– "At the Borders: A Comparative Analysis of a New Regime
Separation"
- Research Fellow: Ilisa Lam (Anthropology, CUNY) – "When
Microstates and Superpowers Talk: Negotiating Kwajalein’s Place in the
U.S. Missile Defense Testing Network"
- Research Fellow: Sumie Nakaya (Political Science, CUNY)
– "Exclusion and Violence in Post-Conflict States"
- Research Fellow: Deniz Sert (Political Science, CUNY)
– "Problem of Reparations in Conflict Areas: The Exercise of Property
Rights in Cyprus "
2004 recipients of Mellon Fellowships in Security and Humanitarian Action
are:
- Senior Research Fellow: Peter Hoffman (Political Science,
CUNY) - "Strategic Frameworks for Humanitarian Action"
- Research Fellow: Nida Alahmad (Political Science, The
New School)- "Iraq: Citizens, State, and Justice"
- Research Fellow: Séverine Autesserre (Politics, NYU) -
"The Politics of the Peace Process in the Eastern Congo"
- Research Fellow: Evren Balta (Political Science, CUNY) –
"Uncovering Repression: State Response to Chechen and Kurdish
Insurgency"
- Research Fellow: Fred Cocozzelli (Political Science,
The New School) – "Social Welfare and Citizenship in Post-Conflict
Kosovo"
- Research Fellow: Christiane Wilke (Political Science,
The New School) – "A Belated Vindication of Rights: Trials for
Human Rights Violations"
2003 recipients of Mellon Fellowships in Security and Humanitarian Action
are:
- Senior Research Fellow: Peter Hoffman (Political Science,
CUNY) - "State Failure and Humanitarian Action"
- Research Fellow: Tatiana Carayannis (Political Science,
CUNY) - "Demobilization and Reinegration of Child Combatants in
the DRC"
- Research Fellow: Ghassan Shabaneh (Political Science,
CUNY) - "The Role of the UN in State Building"
- Research Fellow: Julie Stewart (Sociology, NYU) - "Globalization
Grounded: Land Disputes and Agrarian Reform in Guatamela"
- Research Fellow: Maja Turniski (Development Psychology,
CUNY) - Participation and Identity Development in Adolescents and Young
Adults in Croatia"
- Research Fellow: David Vine (Anthropology, CUNY) - "A
Military Base and Suffering of Exile: Understanding and Redressing the
Harms of Involuntary Displacement"
- Research Fellow: Tobias Vogel (Political Science, The
New School) - "Humanitarianism as Foreign Policy"
Graduate Center Fellowships in Local
Dimensions of Global Change
The City of New York Graduate Center, its Ph.D. Program in Political Science,
the Howard Samuels Center, the Center for Urban Research, and the Ralph Bunche
Institute for International Studies will offer Carnegie Fellowships to two students
entering during the 2006-2007 academic year. They are integral to our project on
The Global Dimensions of Local Change: Migration, Political Mobilization, and
Trans-national Relations in the United States.
John H. E. Fried Memorial Fellowships
in International Human Rights
This fellowship honors the memory of international human rights
expert John H. E. Fried by awarding a grant to an advanced Ph.D. student
in political science to conduct research on international human rights.
Recipients of the Fried Fellowship in International Human rights:
- 2007: Not awarded
- 2006: Bree Zuckerman - "Decentralization, Federalism
and Participatory Development as State-Building in Sudan: Promotion
of Human Rights or Reinforcement of Inequalities?"
- 2005: Deniz Sert - "The Property Rights of Internally Displaced
People: Perceptions and Realities"
- 2004: Effie MacLachlan - "A Common Immigration Policy and the Human
Rights of Women in the European Union"
The George D. Schwab Fellowships in
American Foreign Policy
This fellowship underwrites expenses for dissertation research that examines U.S.
Foreign Policy.
Previous winners of Schwab Fellowships in American Foreign Policy are:
- 2007: Christopher Weimar
- 2006: Not awarded
- 2005: Karen Young
- 2004: Douglas Hogan
- 2003: Kevin Ozgercin
Mellon-Sawyer Fellowships in Human Rights
The Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and the Center
for the Humanities, directed respectively by Professors Thomas G. Weiss
and David Nasaw, received the prestigious Sawyer Seminar Series grant
from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in December 2001. The grant was used
to organize interdisciplinary faculty seminars and public forums on human
rights and state sovereignty during the academic year 2002-2003. The seminar
was directed by Professor Margaret Crahan (Dorothy Epstein Distinguished
Professor of History, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY) and
Professor John Goering (School of Public Affairs, Baruch College and the
Ph.D. Program in Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center). A book
is being published by Routledge, Wars on Terrorism and Iraq:
Human Rights, Unilateralism, and U.S. Foreign Policy.
Mellon-Sawyer Fellowships in Human Rights are:
- Post-Doctoral Fellow: Mirna Adjami - "Human Rights
Case Law in African National Courts" and "Universal Jurisdiction"
- Research Fellow 2002-2003: Maria Victoria Perez-Rios
- Research Fellow 2002-2004: Danielle Zach
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