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Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Jeronimo Lau Alberdi (Law) The study investigates the roles of judicial diplomacy and comparativism within Latin American courts, analyzing the impact of institutional capacity and legal education on the adoption of foreign law. It explores how a court's infrastructure and…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Soumya Johri (History) With the money I received from the GGR award, I plan to do a historical analysis of the convict labor used by the British East India Company in the early nineteenth century in their newly acquired territory in the North Western Provinces of British…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Eren Jaye (French) Eren Jaye’s doctoral project considers theatres of the region from both a folkloric and ecological perspective, guided by the premise that these two are intrinsically intertwined. With a GGR grant, Eren will be traveling to investigate the Irma Goldstraw…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Benjamin Goffin (Civil Engineering & Applied Sciences) Since 2010, Central Chile has experienced particularly dry and hot conditions, which caused more severe wildfires to spread and pose an increasing threat to the Chilean population living at the wildland-urban…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Christian Cancho Ruiz (Anthropology) Archaeological excavations at San Jacinto, an ancient temple from the Formative Period on the Peruvian central coast (1500 B.C.), have revealed the architectural design of an important section of the monument. Although the excavation…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Eric Bredder (School of Education & Human Development) Roversa is a low-cost, flexible robot that introduces students to physical, sequential programming skills with the ability to grow with the learner. The robot currently supports Spanish/English languages leveraging…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Frances Bell (The Carter G. Woodson Institute) Frances' research examines follows several thousand people who were taken as slaves from revolutionary Haiti to the U.S. by enslavers fleeing the revolution. Her work examines how enslaved and formerly enslaved Haitians…

Fall 2023 FGRU Recipient Lauren Austin McQuistion (Architecture) In the fall of 1982, Jaquelin Robertson, Dean of the UVA School of Architecture, hosted an international conference dedicated to the state of architectural practices. Staged in the Rotunda, the prominent architects invited to attend…

Fall 2023 FGRU Recipient Thomas Koberda (Mathematics) The Vietnam Polymath REU is a research program for undergraduates targeted at promising Vietnamese mathematics undergraduates, modeled after the highly successful Polymath Junior REU in the United States. In the summer of 2024, the…

Spring 2023 GPOD Recipients Phoebe Crisman (Architecture/Global Environments + Sustainability); David Edmunds (Global Development Studies); Howard Epstein (Environmental Sciences); Lora Henderson Smith (Education School) Changing climate requires resilient ecological systems, human communities,…

Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient Phoebe Crisman (Architecture, Global Studies) The Aegean islands are experiencing the dramatic effects of climate change, including droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, rising seas, and massive migration from nearby failing states. Yet, Greece plans to achieve net…

Spring 2023 GPOD Recipient Jennie Chiu (Education) This project aims to understand how to make computer science education equitable and accessible for learners across cultural, social, and economic contexts. Researchers from the University of Virginia, UVA-WISE, and the Universidad del Norte in…

Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Isabel Bielat (History) With GGR support, I plan to investigate nineteenth-century Iberian and Latin American periodicals at the Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE). Noting the cross-cultural legibility of social authority, I argue that nineteenth-century British…

Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Courtney Averkamp (Religious Studies) My research focuses on applications of Mahatma Gandhi’s spiritual, moral, and political philosophy to the ecological and agricultural crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Graduate Global Research Grant has enabled me to observe…

Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Jessica Montgomery (Economics) While economists agree that property rights are important for economic growth, it is still unclear which component of property rights matters the most for development and how much formalizing property rights matters in contexts where…

Spring 2023 FGRU Grant Recipient Kathryn Quissell (Medicine) Moral values, some of the most deeply held beliefs an individual or a culture can hold, are particularly difficult to change. In this study, we seek to understand the relationship between advocacy for and against abortion and policy…

Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Beatriz Silva da Costa (Politics) Brazil is known for bid rigging, that is a form of collusion, involving companies that should be genuinely competing to win a contract secretly conspiring to raise prices or lower the quality of offered goods or services during a bidding…

Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Audrius Rickus (History) “Making France Global, 1974-83” explores France’s attempt to remake itself from a great into a global power. In the 1970s, Paris jettisoned its past embrace of imperial modes of power and set  up innovative arrangements to create and control…

Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Josué Godoy (History) My project explores the ways Indigenous and Afro-Andean activists worked within, or were in conflict with, revolutionary class-based organizations in the Northern Andean region encompassing the countries of Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador during the…

Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Nadav Zadokya (History) “For the Profit of Our Subjects:” The Jews of Mantua and the Counter-Reformation State, 1550-1650 details the close relationship between the Jews of Mantua and the ruling Gonzaga dynasty. Using Jews’ letters to the court, I argue that the Jews of…