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Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient Mandy Rispoli (School of Education and Human Development), with collaborators from Indiana University School of Medicine, USA and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kenya  Autism has a growing global prevalence rate of 1 in 100 children. Autistic children often…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient Jim Igoe (Anthropology) This grant will support activities related to an ongoing research project in Tanzania, which explores the concepts of dignity and heritage in Maasai lifeworlds, in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and similar target-based policy…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient Julide Etem (Media Studies) This project is about films that are often categorized as educational, nontheatrical or nonfiction. Etem will contextualize these films within a significant body of film activities in Turkey and the United States in the 20th century. Etem…
Posted on 12/07/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient Mona El Khafif (School of Architecture) Lithium Territories investigates the current disciplinary debates on Hinterlands Urbanisms and reclaims the agency of design in devising more socially and environmentally just futures. The project will initiate a research…
Posted on 12/07/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient Michaela Dubay (School of Education and Human Development) In Bolivia, autism diagnoses are most often delayed or missed due to the scare number of healthcare professionals with autism training or expertise. This project will create a network of highly trained…
Posted on 12/07/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient Sonia Alconini (UVA)  Kylie Quave (GWU)  George Mentore (UVA)  We propose to convene in 2024 an international gathering of scholars and practitioners working across different disciplines in the Amazonian and Andean regions. There are emerging environmental and…
Posted on 06/06/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Steve Parks (English) Recent scholarship has indicated that more than outside aid, the success of an non-violent campaign fror democratic rights depends on the skills of the campaign leadership. Building off that research, the Democratic Futures Working Group (DFWG)…
Posted on 06/06/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Theodore Teichman (Architecture) What if we stop treating soil like dirt? Iceland provides a unique microcosm for the complex entanglements of being soil due to the natural conditions of being an island, the heightened reactivity to environmental…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Emily Warwick (Politics) My current research is focused on collective action and informal governance in the COVID-19 pandemic responses seen in the favelas of urban Brazil, particularly in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Thanks in part to the generous…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Carlos Velazco Fernández (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) Informed by the perspective of Global South studies, my project explores the ideological tensions within the Popular Socialist Party (PSP) between 1953 and 1954‒when the agendas of the PSP…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Madeline Smith (Architecture) This project consists of a year-long thesis study surrounding the influence of French garden design on the American landscape as traced through the distribution of French botanical art of the 18th century. This research…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Nicholas Scott (History) In this project, which is part of my dissertation, I seek to reconstruct the links between the Catholic Church and Chile’s socialist revolution through a targeted study of the Vicuña Mackenna industrial zone located in…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Kathleen King (Music) This project aims to explore how soundscape studies are conducted on Indigenous land and how Indigenous knowledge is utilized and effected by such research. Through observing soundscape ecologists in the field at the Virginia…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Josué Godoy (History) My project explores the ways Indigenous intellectuals in the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) of the 1970s articulated non-Western ways of being in their mobilization of Indigenous peasantry to social action. These…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Daniel Doncel (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) The project takes the Spanish Civil War as a site of confluence between Spain’s internal history, its imperial past in Latin America and Africa, Black international anti-imperialism, and Cuban communism…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Hao Chen (History) This project studies the domestic and international roots of the ethnopolitical transformation in Yanbian, the Korean autonomous region along the Chinese-North Korean border, as a unique case of China’s modern territoriality change…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Dijia Chen (Architecture) This project investigates the construct of contemporary Chinese architecture in exhibitionary representations under hegemonic transnational cultural exchange by looking into a series of German exhibitions on contemporary…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Cassidy Brown (Architecture) The architectural research discusses disability politics and its relationship to contemporary spatial development. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated in 2021 that over 1 billion people live with some sort of…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient M. Tayyab Safdar (Politics) and Dorothy C. Wong (Art) China continues to consolidate its emerging position as a global power. The Belt & Road Initiative remains a significant part of the country’s development strategy and is part of the 14th Five-Year Plan. There…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 GPOD Grant Recipient Hudson Golino (Psychology) and Mariana Teles (Psychology) Manipulation of information or fabrication of false and incorrect information shared via social media and online platforms has severe societal consequences, from distrust in democratic institutions and low…