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Ongoing Research Projects funded by Sephis
At present, the following ongoing projects have been awarded a grant by Sephis:
Postdoctoral Projects
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Dr. Ben Naanen (University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria)
Domination, Exclusion and Rebellion: A study of Ogoni in Comparative Trans-Continental Perspective. (1998-2000)
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Prof. Boubacar Barry (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal)
Greater Senegambia in the 20th Century: The Challenge of Regional Integration. (2001 - 2004)
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Dr. Mirta Zaida Lobato (Universidad de Bueons Aires, Argentina)
Proletarian Words. Utopias, Rights and Citizenship in the trade-unionist press in the River Plate, 1890-1955. (2003 - 2004)
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Dr. Anindita Dasgupta (Sunway University College, Malaysia)
Where is the Sylhet? Hindu and Muslim voices from a forgotten story of India's Partition. (2005-2007)
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Dr. Nodrikhon Khasanov (Uzbekistan Republic Academy of Sciences, Uzbekistan)
Ahmad Yassawi and Turkic-Uzbek Nationhood. (2006-2008).
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Fatemeh Sadeghi
Gender Identity and Politics in Contemporary Iran: A Comparative Study of the National and Islamist Periods (2006-2008)
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Leonardo Alfonso de Miranda Pereira
The Dance of the Identities: Working Class Leisure and the Forging of Nationhood in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, 1895-1930 (2007-2009)
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Rasheed O. Olaniyi
Rethinking Migration and Diaspora Identity in West Africa: A Comparative Study of Yoruba in Northern Nigeria and Ghana, 1900-1970 (2007-2008)
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PhD Projects
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Jerome Egger (Anton de Kom University, Suriname)
Forging a nation in Guyana and Suriname: A comparative study of nation-building in two multi-ethnic colonial societies, 1900-1940. (2001-2004)
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Claudio Costa Pinheiro (Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
'Globalization, Slavery and Forms of Exclusion: Goa and Rio de Janeiro under the rule of Portuguese colonial empire, XVIII to XIX centuries (2002-2004).
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Nuran Durak (Türkiye ve Orta Dogu Amme, Turkey)
Muslim Immigrants ethnic identity in Turkey: The impact of globalization and ethnic conflict since 1980. (2003 - 2006)
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Adriana Edith Edwards (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Repatriation, Ethnicity and Conflict. The Case of Afrikaner immigrants in Patagonia (1902-1950) (2003-2004)
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Michael O. Kehinde (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
Implications of Colonially Determinded Boundaries in West Africa: The Yoruba of Nigeria and Benin in Perspective. (2004-2008)
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Oscar Iván Calvo Isaza (El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico)
Glory and Passion of Slum, Urban Colonialisation and social sciences in Latin America, 1950-1982. (2005-2007)
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Marta Isabel Dominguez (El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico)
Everyday forms of state formation in the Mozambican Zambezi River Valley and in the Pacific Coast of Colombia (2005-2007)
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N.R. Levin (University of Delhi, India)
Modern Fisheries: Environmental changes and cultural politics of development in colonial and post-colonial Kerala (1860-1990) (2005-2008)
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Sanjay Barbora (North Eastern Hill University, India)
Land, Class and Ethnicity: Permutations of Environmental conflichts in two districts of Assam (Northeast India) (2006-2007)
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Matilde Gonzales Izas (El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico)
Diverging paths of Moernity, Citizenship and Racism: A look into the cofee production circuit in Guatemala and the Chiapas highlands of Mexico (2006-2008)
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Alejandra Galindo (University of Monterrey, Mexico)
Gender Issues in Saudi Arabia (2006-2007)
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Shahana Bhattacharaya
Untouchable Leather: Labour, Caste and Class in Leather Industry, 1850-2000 (2007-2010)
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Diego Sempol
Sexual Rights in Transition: Gay/Lesbian Movements and Democracy in the Southern Cone (2007-2010)
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Projects funded by Small Grants Programme
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History Department, Calcutta, India
'African History: Special programme' and South-South Linkage project.(1999)
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Paschim Banga Itihas Samsad, Calcutta, India
Histories of the "Unprotected" Labour processes in south Asia: A Karachi-Calcutta-Dhaka linkage project on garment workers, hawkers and street vendors. (2001-2002)
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University of the West Indies, Barbados
Preserving Alternative Caribbean voices (2003-2004)
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Taller de historia Oral Andina (THOA)
The historical trajectory of THOA. A critical autobiography (2003-2004)
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Dr. Felice Noelle Rodriquez, Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines)
Imperialism and Nationalism in Malaya: Preparation of a Museum Exhibit (2004-2005)
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Valmont Layne, District Six Museum, (South Africa)
Returning 24 (2004-2005)
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Renate Meyer, Centre for Popular Memory, University of Capetown (South Africa)
Langa Community Museum Oral History Video project (2005-2006)
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M. Imam Aziz, Syarikat (Indonesia)
Visual Documentation of Women Political prisoner from the Plantungan Isolation Camp in Central Java Post 1965 Tragedy in Indonesia. (2005-2006)
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Josette Cole and Nyameka Goniwe, Mandlovu Development Institute (South Africa))
"We made history: "Oral, Photographic and Audio Sources documenting Rural and Urban African Women's history in South Africa through the Crossroads Women's Play, Imfuduso: Gender, Migrant Labour and Resistance, 1968-1980 (2005-2006))
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Center for Policy research (India)
Secular Journeys: A Workshop series on comparative secularisms in the Middle East and South Asia.(2005-2006)
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Mohamed El Mansour, Association pour le Developpement Culturel en Social du Rif Occidental (ADESCRO) (Morocco)
Saving the Berber Memory and Heritage of Northern Morocco. (2006-2007)
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Raul R. Romero, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, (Peru)
Constituting an Archive of Andean oral Literature in Peru. (2006-2007)
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Garda Sembiring, People's Empowerment Consortium (Indonesia)
Forced Detention camps in Central java Province: Survivor's Memories of 1965 massacres. (2006-2007)
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Alejandro Angulo Novoa, (Centro de Investigacíon y Educacíon (CINEP) Colombia)
CINEP's database on social struggles in Colombia (1975-2005) (2006-2007)
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Helmy Sharawy, (Arab and African Research Center, Cairo)
Oral History of Social Movements in Egypt: Labour Protests and Trade Unionism Experiences (2007)
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Sudesna Banerjee, (Department of History, Jadavpur University, India)
Remembering the "Native Place": A Nucleus of Social Memory among the People Displaced by Partition of India (1947) (2007)
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Joel Fajardo Ariate, (Third World Studies Center, University of the Philippines)
Mendiola Narratives: Memories of Mobilization and Confrontations with the State
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Kumudini Samuel, (Social Scientists Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Reclaiming a History of Women's Activism for Peace and Gender Justice in Sri Lanka
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Completed Projects
Completed Post-doctoral Projects
Dr. Tomás Huanca Laura (Aruwiyiri, Bolivia)
Oral Traditions, Landscape and Identity in Tropical Forest (2000-2002)
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Dr. S.M.A.K. Fakhri (India)
Community, Ethnicity and the Forging of Nationhood in Tamil Nadu and India (2003)
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Prof. Cristiana Schettini Pereira (Núcleao de Estudos Gênero -PAGU, Brazil)
South American ways: Prostitution, nationhood and social networks in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, 1870-1920. (2003 - 2004)
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Completed PHd Projects
Esther Aillón Soria (El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico)
The Excluded from the written culture: Political Discourse and Popular Perceptions Sucre (Bolivia) 1825-1855 (2000-2003)
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Blandine A. Wetohossou (Centro de Investigaciones Historicas de America Central CHIAC, Mexico)
Arara Ethnic Identity in Nineteenth Century Cuba and among Returnees in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century Dahomey (2000-2002)
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Peter Wafula Wekesa (Kenyatta University, Kenya)
The history of transborder community relations in East Africa: The case of the Babukusu of Western Kenya and the Bakisu of Easter Uganda c. 1894-2000 (2001-2004)
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Bodhisatwa Kar(Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
Framing Assam: Plantation Capital, Metropolitan Knowledge and a regime of identities 1790s-1930s. (2003 - 2006)
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Adolfo Albán Achinte (Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Ecuador)
Times of Zango and the Guampin: Sociocultural productive and nutritional transformations in relation to the gastronomic calendar in Afro-descendent communities in the Inter-Andean Valleys of Patía (Southern Colombia) and Chota (Northern Ecuadors. (2003 - 2005)
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Anindita Chakrabarti (University of Delhi, India)
A sociological study of the Swadhyaya Movement (2006-2007)
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Zan Tao (Peking University, P.R. of China)
The Variety of Traditions and the Forging of National/Cultural Identity in China and Turkey (1890s-1920s): Mainly on Kemal Ataturk and Sun Yat-Sen's projects of Nation Building. (2004-2007)
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Completed projects of the Small Grants programme
Babacar Fall (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar),
Senegal Digitalisation of the database of the oral archives on the social and working class history of Senegal (2002-2003)
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Augusto de Arruda Postiga and Rafael Luis Galdrini Raimoundo (Universidad de Campinas)
Historical Atlas of the Bagé River Basin (2003-2004)
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Solmaz Rustamova Tohidi, Institute of Oriental Studies, Azerbaijan National Academy of Science (Azerbaijan)
Repression and Deportations in the Stalin Era: Life and Time of Migrant Labour in Soviet Caucasus (2004-2006)
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