Alex Ponsen and Yakov Feygin were awarded Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad grants for 2013-2014 from the U.S. Department of Education. Alex is working on a dissertation entitled "Conflict and Coexistence on the Periphery of Empire: The Limits of Sovereignty in the Iberian Imperial World, 1570-1650." Yakov is working on a dissertation entitled " Accounting for Ruins: The International Political-Economy of the Soviet Collapse 1965-1993."