2025 DISSERTATION FELLOWS

We are pleased to announced the 2025 Gittell Dissertation Fellows:

Emine Busra Unluonen (Anthropology), Living Irreverently: Aesthetics and Politics of Populism in Turkiye

Evan Rothman (History), “Like a fox in the House”: African-American Teachers and Union-sponsored Education Reform in the Urban North, 1960s-1990s

Tenn Joe Lim (Earth and Environmental Sciences), Coastal Futures: Land Reclamation, Speculative Urbanism and Community Infrastructure

2024 Dissertation Fellows

We are pleased to announce the 2024 Gittell Dissertation Fellows:

Ryan Brunette (Political Science), After the Miracle: Constructing Political Regimes and Corruption in Post-Apartheid South Africa 

Thayer Hastings (Anthropology), Inhabiting the “Center of Life” in Jerusalem and the Demographic Governance of non-Citizenship

Zahra Khalid (Earth and Environmental Sciences), The “military real-estate state:” insecurity, middle-class aspirations, and speculative real-estate development in Pakistan

2023 Dissertation fellows

We are very pleased to announced the Gittell Dissertation Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year:

Misty Crooks (Anthropology), Democracy Redefined: Electoral Governance, Political Demobilization, and the Hope of Reform Activism,

Silvina Calderaro (Urban Education), Regenerative Processes in Education and Climate Action: Learning More-than-human conviviality, and 

Marianne Madoré (Sociology), The Empire City’s university: A study of CUNY colleges’ imbrication in US imperialism in the early 21st century

Congratulations!