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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…

Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Matthew Chin (Women Gender and Sexuality Studies) This study explores the relationship between Britain’s abolition of slavery in its Caribbean colonies (1838) and its instigation of the First Opium War with China (1839). It counters the epistemic silence that…

Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Jennifer Sessions (History) This project seeks to revitalize study of the intimate as a critical site for the humanistic study of empire and its postcolonial legacies. Hosting the annual meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society will bring scholars from…

Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Natasha Heller (Religious Studies) This project uses the many religious sites in the red cypress forest of Alishan to investigate conceptions of human and nonhuman personhood in twentieth century Taiwan. Through close reading of visual and textual evidence, I…

Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Erik Linstrum (History) Where did Britain look for its future as the British Empire came to an end in the twentieth century?  The usual answer—the European Economic Community, which Britain joined in 1973—misses a much longer and more complex story about British…

Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Lean Sweeney (History) Lean Sweeney’s Individual Faculty Research grant from the CGII supports archival research looking at late nineteenth century uses of informal, marriage-like relationships to navigate changing economic contexts and divorce and inheritance…

Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Margo Smith (Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection) Yolŋu cultural practitioner and activist Mayatili Marika will deliver the W. Wanambi Distinguished Lecture in the Dome Room of the Rotunda on February 3, 2024, followed by a reception in the Upper West Oval Room.…

Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipients Earl Mark (Architecture) Dimitris Papanikolaou (Architecture, National Technical University of Athens) Eva Papatzani (Research Associate & Co-Principal Investigator, Centre for Social Research, Athens) This research integrates several methods to comprehend…

Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Elgin Cleckley (Architecture) Brookes (Revisited) is the first design exhibition to accurately visualize the iconic 1788 drawing  “Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788,” created by abolitionists and politicians…

Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipients Katia Dianina (Slavic Department) My project considers the contested heritage debate in the former Serbian province of Kosovo on the example of four medieval Eastern Orthodox monasteries, all UNESCO World Heritage sites.  While the Serbian side claims cultural…

Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipients Chris Carter (Politics) Daniel Gingerich (Politics) Many occupier governments seek to permanently integrate occupied territories into their national borders. Often, they pursue this goal through plebiscites, holding legitimate or sham elections to determine…

Fall 2023 GIG Recipient Steve Parks (English) Rebuilding Civil Society, Embedding Democratic Roots will examine the processes by which advocates in Zimbabwe are attempting to rebuild a grassroots democratic culture in the context of an authoritarian regime successfully resisting a strategy of…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Omokolade Omigbuile (Anthropology) Historical records attest the Bight of Biafra as a significant European entrepôt during the Trans-Atlantic period. Through archaeological evidence, this project investigates daily life and the material histories of the Trans-Atlantic…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Daniel Fishkin (Music) The daxophone is a carved hardwood strip played with a bow. The instrument’s sound, somewhere between a cello and badger, ranges from furtive gurgles to wild screams. Daniel Fishkin has been is the only Luthier to have studied with its inventor, Hans…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Andrew Avitabile (Education) Healthy Learners is an international NGO that developed an innovative, low-cost school health program in Zambia. Their program delivers a comprehensive range of services through teachers trained as “School Health Workers”. Using a Randomized…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Jennifer Marine (Art History) Historians of science and technology describe a “critical movement” in the latter half of the nineteenth century towards a rapid reformation of nature that pushed the limits of representation. Nature and its theories could no longer be…

Fall 2023 GIG Recipients Lean Sweeney (History) & Miguel Ángel Valladares-Llata (Library) From November 14 to 17 Nicaraguan activist and previous Sandinista commander Dora María Téllez and Nicaraguan human rights activist Ana Margarita Vijil will be visiting the UVA campus to talk to students…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Emily Warwick (Politics) My dissertation research seeks to develop a theory of citizen-state engagement in the context of Latin America’s urban informal settlements and how they engage with the state in the context of landslides and other environmental crises. I seek to…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Robert Porter (Biology) As rapid environmental variation becomes more pronounced in the wake of climate change, understanding how organisms adapt to changing environments becomes increasingly important. This project will investigate local adaptation in the timing of…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Nnenna Onyima (French) Nnenna Onyima studies the representation of spirits and bodies in African narratives. Her work interrogates how African creatives depict the conviction held by most African nations in the existence of the spirit world and the physical world. Nnenna…