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Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Piers Gelly (English)
My project, “The Global Voices of Black Mountain College,” will contribute to a narrative podcast series telling the story of Black Mountain College, an experimental liberal arts college that existed from 1933-1957 in rural North Carolina. Despite…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Mark Sicoli (Anthropology) and Armik Mirzayan (Anthropology)
CGII funds support participation by Tribal citizens in the Siouan-Caddoan Languages Conference hosted at Brooks Hall May 27–29, 2022. The conference gathers linguists and community members around questions of…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
David Germano (Religious Studies) and Charles Laughlin (East Asian Literature and Culture)
This symposium focuses on exploring and celebrating the recent emergence of Tibetan female writers in their Himalayan homelands and in the broader global diaspora. Prominent…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Anastasia Dakouri-Hild (Art)
The project explores the ancient and contemporary landscape of Aphidna near Athens, Greece, combining historical analysis with the systematic collection of surface archaeological finds (survey) and ethnography, augmenting the humanistic…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Giulio Celotto (Classics), Francesca Calamita (Spanish, Italian & Portuguese), and Giulia Paoletti (Art)
“The Siren Project” aims at reflecting on the representation and the role of women’s voice in literature and the visual arts through time and geographies. In…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Jack W. Chen (East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures), Chad Wellmon (Germanic Languages and Literatures), and Daniel T. Willingham (Psychology)
Reading is one of the foundational practices at the heart of human culture. We read for the sake of knowledge and…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Fall 2021 GPOD Grant Recipient
Sally E. Pusede (Environmental Sciences)
This project will support the establishment of an air quality network across Senegal measuring two important pollutants, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2). This network will provide unprecedented…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Fall 2021 GPOD Grant Recipient
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner (Politics & Global Studies), David Nemer (Media Studies), Siva Vaidhyanathan (Media Studies), and Sayan Banerjee (Deliberative Media Lab)
This interdisciplinary and collaborative research program is dedicated to the study of digital…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Michelle Walsh (Religious Studies) This ethnographic research investigates the contexts associated with Buddhist practices and how people incorporate traditional understandings of religious practices with innovative approaches to contemporary meditation…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Lauren Van Nest (Art) The project examines portraits of the Ottonian rulers Henry II and Kunigunde (r. 1002-1024) featured in manuscripts, altar frontals, and other liturgical implements within their early-eleventh-century cathedral treasury contexts.…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Jieun Sung (Education) This in-depth qualitative study examines Korean-American immigrant families’ processes of meaning-making and action in relation to the formal education of children, and the role of a Korean immigrant church community network –…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Robert Sanchis Álvarez (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) Archival investigation at Barcelona’s Historical Archive and the General Protocols Archive from 16th of May to 14th June, 2022, would help me tracing the cultural and economic networks that…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Ilma Qureshi (Religious Studies) My research focuses of Sufism, which has conceptualized as ‘heterodox’ or ‘unorthodox’ by certain Muslim reformers and Orientalist scholars. My research casts a probing and critical lens on Islamic mysticism by studying…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Emily Mellen (Music)
Fascist radio station Radio Bari broadcasted propaganda in Arabic from Italy towards the Middle East and North Africa from 1934-1943. My project delves into the radio station’s use of music as propaganda, arguing that the music was…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Hanna Makowski (Biology) Colonization of new habitats is a well-documented response to global climate change. A plants ability to self-reproduce is predicted to provide an advantage in colonization of new habitats. However, many plant species have…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Yen-Yu Lin (Sociology) “Colorism” — the institutionalized hierarchy which privileges white or light skin color — appears to have been increasingly globalized in recent years. However, how does global colorism operate in societies where people are all…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Erin Jordan (Anthropology) My ethnographic research explores multigenerational experiences with precarity and aspiration in the Kahe Ward of northern Tanzania. As subsistence farmers in an unforgiving economic and ecological place, interlocutors in…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Andrew David Frankel (Education) The CGII grant will support the final stage of my dissertation research, which entails examines how Tibetan communities on the margins of the Sinosphere use supplemental education programs to navigate Chinese hegemony…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Catherine Doucette (Art and Architectural History)
This PhD dissertation in Art & Architectural History explores the decorative arts and material culture of colonial Jamaica, spanning from the late seventeenth century to the post-emancipation…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
María del Rosario Cornejo (Art and Architectural History) My dissertation focuses on the Castilian translation of the Lapidario (or Lapidary), a manuscript commissioned by King Alfonso the Wise (1221-1284), identifying the origin, medicinal, and magical…