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Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
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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
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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…
Posted on 12/05/2018
This project will examine the production, distribution, and consumption of Brazilian television fiction since 2011, when then President Dilma Rousseff signed into law Lei 12.485/11. Through a number of mechanisms, Law 12.485 opened up the previously dormant pay television sector to foreign…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Xinyan Peng (Anthropology) As an anthropology Ph.D. student,Xinyan conducts ethnographic research on closely connected Christian communities in Charlottesville, Virginia and Shanghai,China, to explore the intersection of religiosity, spirituality,…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Joanne Britland (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) Border control and migration are some of the most pressing issues facing nations of the world today. My project examines this phenomenon, with a particular focus on emigration from Spain within the…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
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Manuela Achilles (German Studies) Spearheaded by the Center for German Studies and in collaboration with fifteen units at UVa, this year-long initiative will bring some of the top scholars in the field of migration and refugee studies to Grounds for a speaker…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
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Asher Biemann(Center for German Studies, Religious Studies) The Center for German Studies, together with fifteen units at UVa, the Heinrich B√∂ll Foundation, and the German Embassy in Washington, DC, is organizing an interdisciplinary conference on the global…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Rachael Givens Johnson (History) The Center's funds enabled me to present a conference paper based on my developing dissertation. My project examines the encounters between Enlightenment and Baroque devotional imaginaries in the Spanish eighteenth-…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
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Sandip Sukhtankar (Economics), Isaac Mbiti (Batten), Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner (Politics) Over the past fifteen years, a new wave of empirical research in the field of global development has emerged that aims to examine the most pressing challenges facing…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
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Sandip Sukhtankar, Isaac Mbiti, Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner (Economics, Batten, Politics) Over the past fifteen years, a new wave of empirical research in the field of global development has emerged that aims to examine the most pressing challenges facing…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
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James Savage (Politics) This project analyzes how the European Union and its twenty-eight member states financed and budgeted for the expenses associated with the migration and refugee crises. Between 2015 and 2017 some 2.6 million migrants and refugees entered…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Brittany Sutherland(Biology) Biologists often find studying widespread species challenging for many reasons, not least of which is the necessity to navigate different governments, languages, and cultures when species cross international borders. This…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Seth Salcedo (Architecture) Geography of Exception attempts to provide a foundation with which to understand the complexities of Guantanamo Bay as a both a historical anomaly and a geopolitical grey zone all in an effort to project an architectural…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Deborah Lawrence, Professor of Environmental Science, will include an undergraduate student in an ongoing research project between UVa and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) to investigate how land use change affects carbon storage in Indonesian peatlands. Large scale changes in…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
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Matthew Burtner (Music) The Global Ecoacoustics Project is a collaborative global initiative between the University of Virginia, and institutions in Australia, Colorado and Alaska. A cohort of universities and museums have joined together to imagine a year-long…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
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Corinne Field (Women, Gender, and Sexuality)
The Global History of Black Girlhood Conference will enable an interdisciplinary network of scholars to frame the emerging field of black girl history. The project grows out of the History of Black Girlhood Network…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
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Anne GarlandMahler (Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese) TheSymposium and Workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary and multinational group of scholars in March 2019 togenerate dialogue on the impact of contemporary capitalist globalization on diverse…