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Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Rashmi Banerjee (History) My doctoral project examines the complex legal and social attitudes towards women who committed 'reproductive crimes' such as infanticide and abortion in colonial India. Through the late 19th and early 20th centuries, rapid professionalization…

Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Musa Kazim Azimli (History) The Ottoman Imperial Slave Market (Esir Han) in Istanbul operated for over two centuries and was conceivably the largest slave market in the Middle East until the date of its closure by the order of Sultan Abdülmecid in 1847. After this date,…

Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Manuel Acevedo-Reyes (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) What are the limits of Puerto Rican nationalism? The funds from the CGII will enable me to travel to Puerto Rico and visit the unofficial archive of René Marqués to explore his novel La mirada (1976) and his…

Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient Giulia Paoletti (Art) Picturing Fabrics: Textile and the Photographic Image explores photography’s—intimate, material and theoretical—entanglements with textile across histories and geographies, spanning from Henry Fox Talbot’s lace photographs of the 1830s to…

Spring 2023 FGRU Grant Recipient Spencer Phillips (Global Studies) In this “Community-Engaged” education abroad program UVA undergraduates will gain applied research experience focused on the proposed redevelopment of a 40-km stretch of the Hồng (Red) River in Vietnam’s capital. UVA scholars will…

Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient Tyler Jo Smith (Art) Throughout antiquity, alcohol belonged to private and public realms, devotional and everyday settings. It could be a marker of status, a sign of luxury, an indicator of reverence, pay for a hard day’s work, the complement to a good meal, or…

Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient Michael Sheehy (Contemplative Sciences Center and Religious Studies Department) The workshop will integrate humanistic scholarship on historical contemplative practices with design thinking to generate new applications for higher education. We will convene a…

Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient Nasrin Olla (English and Africana Studies) In contemporary public discourse, transparency is surreptitiously held up as a social good. If a politician, citizen, or person claims to be transparent, then they also claim to be more trustworthy, honest, and ethical…

Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient Ariana Maki (Religious Studies) This CGII Center Grant supports the next phase of targeted field research in the South Asian nation of Bhutan, part of a larger project on the roles of specific individuals in creating a distinctive ‘Bhutanese art’ between the…

Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient Michael G. Lee (Architecture) The Italian landscape has for centuries been a locus amoenus of male same-sex desire. Serving as an idealized setting for homoerotic visual representation and narratives of self-discovery in painting, photography, and film, it has…

Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipients Janet Horne & Alison Levine (French) This grant supports the creation of a collaborative working group to foster interdisciplinary conversation among UVA faculty working on West Africa, and to advance research collaborations between UVA and the Université…

Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient David J. Getsy (Art)  As part of a book in progress on the social and geographic proximities of the queer performance and activist cultures of downtown New York City in the 1970s, I will be conducting research in the Downtown Collection of the Fales Library, New…

Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient Geoffrey M. Geise (Chemical Engineering) Need for access to clean water is one of the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century and a critical challenge for South Africa. This project will stimulate collaborative STEM…

Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient Federico Cuatlacuatl (Art) Migrant Nahua Futurisms is multimedia production that proposes to highlight U.S migratory experiences and traumas of indigenous communities from Cholula, Puebla.  Through an ongoing series of short experimental films, multimedia…

This semester, Profs. Cheryl Krueger and Ari Blatt, both in the Department of French, are co-facilitating a new, 1-credit reading seminar in which 17 undergraduate students are participating in the “Choix Goncourt USA,” an initiative sponsored by the French Cultural Services of the French Embassy.…

2023 GIG Recipient Lise M. Dobrin (Anthropology) This CGII GIG grant will support a residency at UVA this April by Dr. Andrew Moutu, former Director of the Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery. Dr. Moutu, whose own research focus is the New Guinea Sepik, holds a PhD in Anthropology…

Fall 2022 FGRU Recipient Vanessa Guerra (School of Architecture) Planners and design professionals need a better understanding of the development and management of informal urban practices in cities. This lack of understanding leads to poor planning and design interventions toward larger socio-…

Fall 2022 GGR Recipient Ash Duhrkoop (Art History) Lubumbashi is the mining capital of the DRC. Since the height of the colonial mining industry in the early 20th century, artists from the region have proposed alternative ways of engaging with the landscape and its mineral abundance, while…

Fall 2022 GGR Recipient Dustin Thomas (Mediterranean Art & Archaeology) This project will explore dynamics of intercultural interaction on the island of Cyprus during the first millennium BCE. It will create of digital 3D models of ancient Cypriot votive sculptures from the Fralin Museum…

Fall 2022 GGR Recipient Cherrie Kwok (English) Cherrie Kwok will focus on advancing her dissertation project about the relationship between anti-imperialism and a late nineteenth-century artistic and literary style named Decadence, and fulfilling her research agenda at The Decadence Research…