Current Fellows

Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Program

Name and Home Institution	Field of Study	Fulbright-Nehru Project Title	Host Institution/ Duration of grant and Date/Month of arrival
Ms. Priyanka V. Athavale University of California Berkeley CA	Public Health	Assessing Food Insecurity as a Key Factor of Malnutrition in Mumbai, India	Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra Duration: 9 months August 2014
Mr. Derek D. Beckvold New England Conservatory of Music Boston MA	Education	Research and Pedagogical Application of Hindustani Rhythmic Principles	Integrated Development Education Association, Delhi Duration: 9 months August 2014
Mr. Andrew D. Caffro Grove City College Grove City PA	Public Health	HIV Education Strategies in Demographically Distinct Populations	Concern for AIDS Research and Education (CARE) Health Center, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Jacqueline E. Cieslak University of Virginia Charlottesville VA Ph.D. Candidate	Anthropology	Sanitizing Labor: Caste and Cleanliness in Delhi	Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi Duration: 9 months July 2014
Ms. Julia M. Colwell Michigan State University East Lansing MI Ph.D. Candidate	Environmental Studies	Gender and livelihoods: Differential effects of a closed fishing season in India	Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, Kerala Duration: 9 months January 2015
Ms. Alice B. Conant At-Large PA	Public Health	Using Geospatial Mapping to Optimize Healthcare Delivery in Karnataka, India	Karuna Trust, Bengaluru, Karnataka Duration: 9 months August 2014
Mr. Mitchell J. Cook Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge MA Ph.D. Candidate	Urban Development and Planning	Solving the Performance Puzzle: Successful Municipal Finance Reform in Bangalore	School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi Duration: 9 months September 2014
Ms. Inanna C. Craig-Morse Lawrence University Appleton WI	Political Science	Catalyzing Leadership: Causes of Women’s Political Efficacy in Pune	University of Pune, Pune, Maharashtra Duration: 9 months August 2014
Mr. Avilash K. Cramer Brown University Providence RI	Physics	Development of a Low-Cost Optical Coherence Tomography Device for Retinal Imaging	Aurolab, Madurai, Tamil Nadu Duration: 9 months August 2014
Mr. Aditya Dasgupta Harvard University Cambridge MA Ph.D. Candidate	Political Science	The Political Economy of India's Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme	Center for Policy Research, Delhi Duration: 9 months September 2014
Mr. William Dewey University of California Santa Barbara CA Ph.D. Candidate	Theology & Religion	Tibet's Forgotten Regents	Central University of Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Kristin N. Francoeur Indiana University Bloomington IN Ph.D. Candidate	Theology & Religion	Re-evaluating “Empowerment”: The Impact of Religion on North Indian NGOs	Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi Duration: 9 months October 2014
Ms. Melissa R. Goodnight University of California Los Angeles CA Ph.D. Candidate	Education	Fostering Improvement in Education through Evaluation: A Study of ASER in India	Ambedkar University, Delhi Duration: 9 months July 2014
Ms. Jillian L. Gross University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI Ph.D. Candidate	Education	Community Colleges in the Indian Context	Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra Duration: 9 months March 2015
Ms. Anisha U. Gundewar University of Rochester Rochester NY	Public Health	Social Capital, Poverty, and Health: An Ethnographic Analysis	Partners for Urban Knowledge and Research (PUKAR), Mumbai, Maharashtra Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Chloe R. Hauenstein Claremont McKenna College Claremont CA	Economic Development	Economic and Environmental Impact of Informal Waste Management Cooperatives	The Energy and Resources Institute (University), Delhi Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Lauren M. Hennelly University of Wisconsin Madison WI	Ecology	Howls in the Himalayas: Assessing Endangered Wolf Populations through Howl Surveys	Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Uttarakhand Duration: 9 months July 2014
Ms. Akshata Kadagathur At-Large MA	Business / Management	Impact Oriented Giving and the Rise of New Giving in India, a case study	Dasra, Mumbai, Maharashtra Duration: 9 months August 2014
Mr. Cameron J. Kneib University of North Carolina Chapel Hill NC	Public Health	The Impact of Polio Immunization on Routine Health Initiatives in Rural India	Project Concern International India, Delhi Duration: 9 months August 2014
Mr. John J. Langdon University of the Pacific Stockton CA	History, Cultural and Intellectual	Legacies of Cultural Exchange and the State Department Tours: Jazz in India	American Institute of Indian Studies, Gurgaon, Haryana Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Rebecca E. Liebman University of Illinois Chicago IL	Public Health	Understanding Barriers to Saving Preterm Babies Born in Slum Areas in India	Save the Children, Delhi Duration: 9 months August 2014
Mr. Jack D. Loveridge University of Texas Austin TX Ph.D. Candidate	History, Modern	Curing Hunger: Science, Nutrition and Development in India, 1935-1966	University of Delhi, Delhi Duration: 9 months October 2014
Ms. Anna E. MacCourt University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI Ph.D. Candidate	Archeology	Courts, Kings and Clerics: Archaeology and History of Elite Culture in Ancient Gujarat	The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat Duration: 9 months November 2014
Ms. Zoey N. Martin-Lockhart Pitzer College Claremont CA	Gender Studies	Queer Connections: Identities & perceptions of India’s queer community in the digital age	SAATHII, Chennai, Tamil Nadu Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Pavitra Mehta Columbia University New York NY	Inter-disciplinary Studies	The Evolution of the Ramayana Epic through Indian Puppetry	University of Delhi, Delhi Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Emma C. Meyer Emory University Atlanta GA Ph.D. Candidate	History, Modern	Labor’s Legacy: Work and Emigration in the Coastal Andhra Region, 1880-1942	University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Duration: 9 months July 2014
Mr. Tausif Noor Dartmouth College Hanover NH	Art and Architectural History	“Where are the Artists? Examining Indian Art on the Ground and in the Academy”	Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bengaluru, Karnataka Duration: 9 months August 2014
Mr. Douglas F. Ober At-Large Washington DC Ph.D. Candidate	Theology & Religion	Unearthing the Gem of BharatBhumi: The Discovery and Reinvention of Modern Indian Buddhism	University of Delhi, Delhi Duration: 9 months October 2014
Ms. Amisha Patel Northwestern University Evanston IL Ph.D. Candidate	Medical Sciences	Evaluating Pre-Hospital Systems of Care for Patients with Heart Attacks in India	Centre for Chronic Disease Control, Delhi Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Maya W. Potter Smith College Northampton MA	Anthropology	Documenting the Negotiated Use of Public Space by Women Street Vendors in Ahmedabad	Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), Ahmedabad, Gujarat Duration: 9 months August 2014
Mr. Kush Purohit University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA	Public Health	Effects of Agricultural Policy Shifts on Diabetes Prevalence in the Raika Community	Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan (LPPS), Pali, Rajasthan Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Laura E. Robinson New College of Florida Sarasota FL	Political Science	Gender Quotas in the Panchayati Raj	Institute of Social Sciences, Delhi Duration: 9 months August 2014
Mr. Daniel A. Rosenblum University of Vermont Burlington VT	Anthropology	Formal Recognition and Economic Undertakings across Delhi, India’s unauthorized colonies	Institute for Economic Growth, Delhi Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Isabel Salovaara At-Large IL	Education	Implications of Private Tutoring in Delhi, India	ASER Centre (Pratham), Delhi Duration: 9 months August 2014
Mr. Gokul G. Sampath At-Large CA	Public Health	A Comparison of Safe Water Strategies in the Arsenic Affected Indo Gangetic Plain	A.N. College, Patna, Bihar Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Julie A. Schofield State University of New York Oswego NY	Gender Studies	Creative Arts Therapy as Empowerment for Survivors of Human Trafficking in India	University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Maya P. Sikand Brown University Providence RI	Environmental Studies	India’s Right to Food Act: Listening from Gaon to Government	Srishti (Center for Public History), Bengaluru Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Hannah L. Smith University of California San Diego CA Ph.D. Candidate	Anthropology	Measured Success: High-Stakes Testing and the Shaping of a Tamil Public	Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu Duration: 9 months January 2015
Ms. Robyn E. Spateholts Mount Holyoke College South Hadley MA	Theology & Religion	The Maharashtrian Bhikkhuni: A Portrait of Female Buddhist Monasticism in India	University of Pune, Pune, Maharashtra Duration: 9 months August 2014
Mr. Ryan J. Stock University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI	Environmental Studies	Adaptive Synergies: Building Resiliency Through Rural Institutions in Nagnesh, Guj., India	Indian Institute of Management (IIM-A), Ahmedabad, Gujarat Duration: 9 months August 2014
Mr. Charles B. Strauber Stanford University Stanford CA Ph.D. Candidate	Education	Educational Technology Use Among High School Students in West Bengal, India	Sabuj Sangha Kolkata Duration: 9 months January 2015
Ms. Tara Suri At-Large NY	History, Modern	Cosmopolitan Visions: Indian Feminism (1921-1947) and the Making of the Postcolonial State	Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Harper C. Sutherland Harvard University Cambridge MA	Transportation	New Delhi Public Bus Service	Centre for Science and Environment, Delhi Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Augusta X. Thomson At-Large NH	Anthropology	Objects of Identity: Reclaiming a Cultural Landscape through an Ethnographic Exhibit	Siddhartha School Project, Leh, Jammu & Kashmir Duration: 9 months August 2014
Mr. Ben L. Williams Harvard University Cambridge MA Ph.D. Candidate	Theology & Religion	Invoking Identity with Shiva: Poetics in the Shaiva Philosophy of Abhinavagupta	Pondicherry Center of the École française d'Extrême-Orient, Puducherry Duration: 9 months August 2014
Mr. Dylan L. Lowry At-Large MN	Filmmaking	Hindu Image-makers in Kolkata: Cultural and Religious Expression in Public Space	Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Alexandra L. Masi Texas Christian University Fort Worth TX	Dance	The Role of Dance and Religion in Developing a Culture of Ecological Responsibility	Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Catherine L. Schmidt Rhode Island School of Design Providence RI	Design	Typography as Cultural Cypher	Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, Maharashtra Duration: 9 months August 2014
Ms. Kanchan Wali-Richardson The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art New York NY	Sculpture	Holy City Stairs: The Ghats of Varanasi	Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh Duration: 9 months August 2014