The Manitowoc Company, Inc.
Pre-dissertation Travel Grant Award 2008

Adam Auerbach Department of Political Science Project: Democratic Decentralization, Party Politics, and Ethnic Fractionalization in India The central focus of Adam's research concerns the manner in which the process of democratic decentralization in patronage democracies alters the logic of group formation at the local level and the aggregation of identities and interests in coalition politics to higher levels of governance.

Sarbani Chakraborty Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education Project: Exploration of the status of government school teachers and their teaching: A study of three government schools in India Sarbani's proposed research question is: Why are government school teachers in India not 'teaching'? She proposes a sociological re-reading of this phenomenon of not-teaching in government schools by exploring the social and politico-economic processes of the elementary-school teaching at work, within the dominant discourse of efficiency, effectiveness and student outcomes.