Another active focus of PUM is to foster and strengthen intellectual outreach to colleagues and students and to nurture the development of migration research in developing countries by funding young investigators to conduct dissertation field research in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

Eligible applicants are faculty and graduate students in the social sciences at Princeton and Rutgers Universities.

The 2002 Young Investigators are listed to the right.  Click on the person's name to visit their website.
 

 

 
Faculty

Angelique Haugerud, Associate Professor, Rutgers University, Department of Anthropology, “Migration, Wealth, and Social Change in Kenya: A Longitudinal Study.”

Students

Rina Agarwala, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, “Women in the Informal Economy: The Impact of Political Organization on Productivity and Autonomy.”

Susan Cassels, Princeton University, Program in Population Studies, “Historical Demographic Analysis of Kosrae, Micronesia: The Impact of Environment and Migration.”

Arpita Chakrabarti, Rutgers University, Department of Anthropology, “South Asian Immigrant Muslims and Transnational Islam.”

Belinda Huang, Princeton University, Department of History, “Creating Trans-Pacific Networks: Education and Migration from South China to the United States and Canada, 1904-1919.

Maria Mwikali Kioko, Rutgers University, Department of Sociology, “Women’s Changing Labor and Lifestyles in Low-Income Urban Kenya.”

Sylvain Merlen, Princeton University, Department of Economics, “Palestinian Migrant Labor: Dynamics after Two Intifadas and a Gulf War.”

Waranee Pokapanichwong, Rutgers University, Department of Anthropology, “Negotiating Rural Subsistence: Cultural Politics and the Commodification of Thai Female Sexuality.”

Frederick Wherry, Princeton University, Department of Sociology, “Culture for Sale: Small Business, Cultural Capital, Social Capital, and Global Connections in Thailand and Costa Rica.”