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Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2014 Grant Recipient
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Andres Clarens (Engineering) Argentina has the second largest shale gas reserve in the world and the environmental costs and benefits of developing this resource have yet to be studied. Professor Andres Clarens (UVa Department of Civil and Environmental…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Sheena Singh (Anthropology) Building on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park in the Saurashtra peninsula of Gujarat, India, this project explores the politics and peculiarities of coexistence between…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Shannon Ruhl (Architecture) As precedents to the now abandoned coal camps of Appalachia, massive incorporated municipalities dedicated to resource extraction in India and China today, and growing tech communities in Silicon Valley; the model company town…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Arlene Keeling (Nursing) Today the United States is faced with questions about immigration policies and the conflict of those policies with the moral imperative to care for people seeking refuge from war torn areas of the world. This project will document and…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Nicole Bonino (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) Which are the political reasons behind the migration movements involving the Global South at the beginning of the 20th Century? Did the socio-political reaction of South America towards the migratory…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
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Ekaterina Dianina (Slavic Languages and Literatures) This monograph-length study explores the tragic dispersal of imperial art collections during the early Soviet period through emigration, neglect, and sale and problematizes contemporary efforts in post-Soviet…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Andrew Frankel (Curry: Education Leadership, Policy, and Foundations) This project explores the implications of the Education Revolution - i.e. global spread of mass formal education and the meanings it creates - among an ethnic group whose values and…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Holly Runde (French) My dissertation focuses on an empathetic reading of narratives about abortion by French women writers and filmmakers. The CGII grant will facilitate a summer stay in Paris during which I will complete archival research in the…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Mehr Farooqi and Jane Mikkelson (Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures) There are oceans of writing in Urdu and Persian that have not been translated into other languages. In the case of Indo-Persian, a slew of texts became "homeless"…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Andrew Frankel (Curry School) Just how pervasive among teachers, students, and communities are state-supplied narratives of what constitutes legitimate knowledge and academic achievement? Using an ethnographic approach to explore how Tibetan teachers…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Melvyn Leffler and William Hitchcock (History) The 2017 Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium, "U.S. Presidents Confront the Russians: A Century of Challenge, 1917-2017," will explore the contemporary relevance of the history of Russian-American relations. By…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Abeer Saha (History) Our current crisis of climate change was preceded by the crisis of stratospheric ozone depletion and the subsequent "hole in the ozone layer," in the 1970s and 80s. A tension between "development" and "environmental sustainability"…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Ran Zhao (East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) Xu Xiake (1587-1641) was a Chinese geographer and travel writer of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). He traveled throughout China for over 30 years, leaving detailed and extensive records of his travels. Xu…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Bremen Donovan (Anthropology) I am a PhD student in socio-cultural anthropology, focusing on policing, migration, and visual/sensory methods. My doctoral research broadly addresses how policing is impacting West African youth in Paris and surrounding…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Murad Idris (Politics), Lawrie Balfour(Politics), Sandhya Shukla (English), and Jalane Schmidt (Religious Studies) This two-day conference brings together established and emerging scholars of colonialism, settler-colonialism, and race for a discussion of law,…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Zhe Dong (Architecture) For my project, I will conduct a field survey on the monuments dedicated to Mao Zedong in his birthplace, Shaoshan, China. I will spend two days in Shaoshan doing an observational study of how people use and interpret Mao's…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Janet Horne (French and Politics) At this critical point in the development of French domestic politics and the European Union, the French and Politics Departments invite Prof. Vincent Michelot (Sciences-Po, Lyon) as a Visiting Professor for the spring semester…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Catalina Vallejo Pedraza (Sociology) Although transitional justice (TJ) has been used to mobilize substantial financial resources with the aim of compensating victims of civil conflict, little is known about how countries come to drastically different…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Dannah Dennis(Anthropology) I'm currently conducting ethnographic research in Kathmandu for my dissertation in Anthropology. My topics of interest revolve around Nepal's ongoing efforts to re-define itself as a nation in the process of re-writing its…
Posted on 12/05/2018
In 1620, Manuel Gayt√°n de Torres left Jerez de la Frontera to survey Venezuelan copper mines. Copper was central to imperial Spain's currency policies, military campaigns against the Dutch, and trade relationships in West Africa, but it was in short supply. Gayt√°n de Torres projected his vision…