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Spring 2024 Center Grant RecipientElizabeth Gorman (Sociology)Recent decades have seen a global shift away from the traditional self-regulation of the professions toward hybrid forms of regulation in which professions, the state, and market actors all play significant roles. Focusing on the cases…

Spring 2024 GGR RecipientAlexis Ramirez (School of Law)The study explores informal constitutional norms in Latin America, employing comprehensive methodology including textual analysis, case studies, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Focused on various countries with diverse constitutional…

Spring 2024 GGR RecipientEmmy Monaghan (Art)My project explores the ways in which Indigenous Australian artists from the Tiwi Islands invoke ceremonial performance in their artistic practices. Pedro Wonaeamirri, an artist working at Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association, won the Telstra Award in…

Spring 2024 GGR RecipientKatia Bellal (French)The main objective of this project is to report on the state of research and safeguarding of Amazigh intangible cultural heritage. It analyzes three ancient oral genres that characterize Amazigh society (indigenous people of North Africa) : tale, song/…

Spring 2024 GGR RecipientZachary McKeeby (Anthropology)My archaeological research in western Zambia studies daily life and interactional histories in ‘in-between’ places between emergent state systems in southern Africa from the 8th to the 18th centuries CE. I show how communities living in these…

Spring 2024 Center Grant Recipients Adria LaViolette (Anthropology) Kristina Richardson​​​​​​​ (History) CGII funding is contributing to a project addressing Swahili women’s roles from 600-1600 CE on the East African coast in the realms of agricultural production, cuisine, cultural transmission,…

Spring 2024 Center Grant Recipient Hanadi Al-Samman (MESALC) My research project explores the artistic and cultural manifestations in which cotemporary Muslim women define their body space to defy internal, traditional restrictions and external, orientalist Western gazes. Through my examination…

Spring 2024 Center Grant Recipients Allison Bigelow (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) Rafael Alvarado (School of Data Science) We are supporting Maya-led teams in Yucatán and Guatemala to launch digital resources for long-term language revindication in their communities. Since 2020, our project…

Spring 2024 GPOD Recipients Mandy Rispoli (EHD, Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education) Michaela DuBay (EHD, Speech Communication Disorders Program) The purpose of this project is to develop the STAR Global Autism Initiative as a new branch of UVa’s Supporting Transformative Autism…

Spring 2024 Center Grant Recipients Paul Dobryden (Germanic Languages & Literatures) Ervin Malakaj (Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, University of British Columbia) Published a century ago, Belá Balázs’s Visible Man, or The Culture of Film (Der sichtbare Mensch, oder die…

Spring 2024 Center Grant Recipients Tessa Farmer & Phoebe Crisman (Global Studies)  Majid Shafiee-Jood (Civil & Environmental Engineering)  This is a collaboration with the Athar Lina Initiate to conduct research and create co- design strategies for socially and contextually aware modes…

Spring 2024 Center Grant Recipient James Savage (Politics & Public Policy) My research examines how since Russia invaded Ukraine the European Union has budgeted and provided critical financial support from both the supranational EU level and the EU’s twenty-seven member states to aid…

Spring 2024 FGRU Recipients Rob Garrod & M´elisse Bonfand-Caldeira (Astronomy & Chemistry) This project seeks to unveil the mysteries of the recent detection of table salt in space. Salt molecules emit unique chemical signatures, acting as cosmic fingerprints which reveal crucial details…

Spring 2024 FGRU Recipient Andrés Clarens (Engineering) Concrete is one of the most important materials in modern civilization but its production generates 8% of global CO2 emissions so there is growing urgency to develop alternative low-carbon alternatives. Ancient Roman engineers produced…

Spring 2024 FGRU Recipient Muhammad Tayyab Safdar (Global Studies) This project explores whether Chinese investment in Gwadar Port in Pakistan, located at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical lifeline in global trade, can contribute to a significant reordering of Central Asian trade…

Spring 2024 GIG Recipient Uta Erdbrügger (Medicine) The 'Tiny Packages with Big Impact: Workshop on Extracellular Vesicle (EVs) Isolation and Characterization' is born from the acknowledgment of a critical gap in hands-on EV research training. These Extracellular Vesicles are small blebs (tiny…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Emily Needham (History) My project explores Martin Luther King Jr’s highly publicized visit to both East and West Berlin. King arrived in September 1964, only a few months after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and just before he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. His…

Fall 2023 GPOD Recipients Catherine Bradshaw, Ph.D. (EHD, Department of Human Services) Amanda Nguyen, Ph.D. (EHD, Department of Human Services) Mercedes Gabriela Orozco Solis, Ph.D. (University of Guadalajara, Mexico)   This project aims to address growing concerns about school safety, youth…

Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Mohamed Ismail (Architecture) Less Economically Developed Countries (LEDCs) are struggling to meet the demand for affordable housing in their growing cities. There are several reasons for this, but a major constraint is the high cost of construction materials.…

Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Neeti Nair (History) The book project, “Capitals in the Margins: South Asia Since Partition” seeks to answer why, despite the shared experience of colonial British rule and a shared investment in anticolonial nationalist movements, South Asia remains the least…