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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
. PhD Projects
. Projects funded by the Grants for Preserving Social Memory: History and Social Movements
. SEPHIS/FORD Sexualities and Modernities Project
Completed Projects:
. Completed Post-doctoral Projects
. Completed PHd Projects
. Completed projects of the Grants for Preserving Social Memory: History and Social Movements
Postdoctoral Projects
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Mohammad Maljoo (Iran)
Two Placement Models of the Economy in Society, the Same Road to Social Exclusion: A Comparative Study of the Post Iran-Irak War and Ahmadinijad Eras
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Caridad Massón Sena (Cuba)
Comintern and Communism in Cuba and Mexico: Comparative Analysis from two Cultural and National Perspectives
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Ponciano del Pino Huamán (Peru)
Between national Modernism and International Colonialism: Indigenous Communities and the State in Twentieth Century Peru
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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. 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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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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M. Arivalagan (India)
Glorifying the Colonial Past! Social Memory and Kanikkarans in Tamil Nadu
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Viviane de Oliveira Barbosa (Brazil)
Stories of Women in the MIQCB and the RWM : Gender Identities and Agrarian Issues in Brazil and South Africa (1970-2003)
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Federico Guillermo Lorenz (Argentina)
Memories of Class Struggle and Repression and its Transmission in Argentina and Chile: The Case of Shipyard and Textile Workers (1970-2005)
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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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Shahana Bhattacharaya
Untouchable Leather: Labour, Caste and Class in Leather Industry, 1850-2000 (2007-2010)
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Projects funded by the Grants for Preserving Social Memory: History and Social Movements
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IEP, Rafael Nova (Peru)
Memory Archives on Peasant Movements and the Struggle for Land in Peru
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CERDAC, Guillaume Nkongolo (Democratic Republic Congo)
Social Identity Movements in Katanga, DRC (1960-2006)
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National Archive, Barbara Francisca Danzie Leon (Cuba)
Preserving Social Memory: History and Social Movements
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SAHA, Dale McKinley (South Africa)
"Forgotten" Voices in the Present? Post -1994 Oral Histories from three poor Communities in South Africa
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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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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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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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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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SEPHIS/FORD Sexualities and Modernities Project
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Musa Sadock (Tanzania)
Permisive and Prohibitive Sexual Practices for the Spread and Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Mbozi District, Tanzania, 1920-2005
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María de Fátima Valdivia del Rio (Peru)
Knowledge and official Regulations on female Sexuality and Peruvian Nation. Lima, 1820-1850
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Samina (Pakistan)
Women's Sexuality in the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) of Pakistan
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Hardik Brata Biswas (India)
From the Obsene to the Pornographic: The Case of Bangla Print Pornography
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Rajeev Kumaramkandath (India)
The Discursive Formation of Sexual Subjects: Sexual Morality and Homosexuality in 21st Century Keralamv
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Huang Yingying (China)
The Rise of Sex and Sexuality Studies in Post -1978 China
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Nitya Vasudevan (India)
Recasting "the Desire to Desire": Mapping the Transactional Field of Sexuality in India
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Basil Ndjio (Cameroon)
If you are a Gay, you are a Witch: Homosexuality, Sorcery and the Political Invention of the "Other" in postcolonial Cameroon
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Iman Al-Ghafari (Syria)
The Lesbian Existence in Arab Cultures: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
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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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Abel Sierra Madero (Cuba)
The Sexual Otherness in the Construction of the Cuban Nation
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Fabiola Cordeiro (Brazil - CLAM)
Gender and Sexuality in a Total Institution: A Study of the Penitentiary Talavera Bruce in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Alberto Teutle Lopez (Mexico)
The History of Homoerotic and Clandestine Sex in Mexico City: Another Side of the Cultural History of Aids in the 1980s
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Tsitsi Beatrice Masvawure (Zimbabwe/South Africa)
Sexual Pleasure and the Pre-marital Sexual Adventures of Young Women in Post-colonial Zimbabwe
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Completed Projects
Completed Post-doctoral Projects
Alejandra Galindo (University of Monterrey, Mexico)
Gender Issues in Saudi Arabia (2006-2007)
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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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Dr. Nodrikhon Khasanov (Uzbekistan Republic Academy of Sciences, Uzbekistan)
Ahmad Yassawi and Turkic-Uzbek Nationhood. (2006-2008).
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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. 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 Grants for Preserving Social Memory: History and Social Movements
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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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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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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