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Fall 2021 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Ren Capucao (Nursing) As Filipino nurses remain an elusive subject of history, their present-day hypervisibility casts a ghostly shadow­ haunting the legacy of United States imperialism. My project, therefore, examines the historical formation of the…

Fall 2021 Grant Recipient Graduate Student J. Charles Bradley (Education) It is estimated that 35 million displaced people are children, with 340,000 children born into displacement every year. In response, a body of early childhood and humanitarian experts have coalesced to form the professional…

Fall 2021 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Abigail Bradford (Art) Performance spaces are critical to understanding how spectators experience music. In recent scholarship there has been an interest in reanimating ancient Greek music by reintroducing live musical performances back into ancient…

Fall 2021 Grant Recipient Graduate Student H. Nazli Azergun (Anthropology) This ethnographic project investigates the worldbuilding practices of sustainable finance professionals in Germany and the United States vis-à-vis their legal and occupational constraints. Sustainable finance has…

Fall 2021 Grant Recipient Charlotte Rogers (Spanish) In a time of rising sea levels and global climate change, why do the arts matter after a hurricane? “Coasts in Crisis: A Digital Exhibit of Art after Hurricanes” seeks to answer that question through the creation of a freely accessible curated…

Fall 2021 Grant Recipient Steve Parks (English), Nelson Camilo Sánchez León (Law), T. Kenny Fountain (English), Hannes Seibert, (Peace Appeal Foundation), and Myo Yan Naung Thein, Visiting Researcher/Member, Democratic Futures Working Group, UVA Democracy Initiative The Burmese Democratic Futures…

Fall 2021 Grant Recipient Shiqiao Li and Esther Lorenz (Architecture) This project launches the Asian Urbanism Collaborative (AUC) as a global platform to advance the research and teaching in Asian urbanization. The goal of AUC is to map more accurately the cultural forces that have led to Asia’s…

Fall 2021 COVID Fund Recipient Kerem Cosar and James Harrigan (Economics) Business travel is an essential component of international trade. It enables firms to find new suppliers, test products, monitor their business partners, and negotiate transactions. Restrictions on international travel…

Spring 2022 FGRU Recipient Amanda Nguyen (Education and Human Development) This project will partner a UVA global health student with a Cambodian community mental health team to develop a research project focused on family and community supports for people with severe mental illness in Cambodia.…

Spring 2022 FGRU Recipient Nieves García Prados (Spanish, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) With the passion that is sparked by a fresh perspective when the reader discovers a luminous but resounding poetry, the undergraduate student, Mary-Dryden Maio translates into English the …

2022 FGRU Kyle Schumann and Katie MacDonald (Architecture) This project seeks to develop and pilot a construction application for non-linear wood through the development of a computational construction workflow in which logs are robotically scanned and manufactured into interlocking, structural…

Spring 2021 Grant Recipient M. Tayyab Safdar (Politics) and Dorothy C. Wong (Art History) China continues to consolidate its emerging position as a global power in a post-Covid World. Despite setbacks, the Belt & Road Initiative continues to expand, and China is projecting its influence…

Spring 2021 Grant Recipient Stella Mattioli (Spanish, Italian & Portuguese) This project will try to fix the lack of diverse material that often we find while teaching a language. The Italian society is very complex, and it is continually changing thanks to a series of factors (immigration,…

Spring 2021 Grant Recipient Eve Danziger (Anthropology) Since 1986, Dr. Eve Danziger has been working with speakers of Mopan, an under-documented language of the celebrated Mayan family. Her Mopan digital archive (http://mopan.iath.virginia.edu/) houses over 100 hours of recordings of traditional…

Spring 2021 Grant Recipient Anastasia Dakouri-Hild (Aegean and Near Eastern Art and Archaeology) The project explores the ancient landscape of Aphidna near Athens, Greece, examining the diachronic link between landscape, human experience and inhabitation (2000 BCE-present) and evaluating its…

Spring 2021 Grant Recipient Nicole Bonino (Spanish, Italian & Portuguese) This digital humanities project provides scholars, students, and people interested in the socio-cultural struggles of Latin American unregulated residential areas with an open-access digital repository of the artistic…

Spring 2021 GPOD Grant Recipient Aswin Punathambekar (Media Studies) and Eli Carter (Spanish, Italian & Portuguese) Since media studies began in the 1970s, its object of study has changed in fundamental ways. Media were, at first, thought almost wholly within the frame of the nation-state,…

Spring 2021 GPOD Grant Recipient Nomi Dave (Music), Anne Coughlin (Law), Bremen Donovan (Anthropology), Bonnie Gordon (Music), and Liezl Vergara (Anthropology) The Sound Justice Lab is a newly formed collective of students and faculty bridging law and the humanities at UVa. By ‘sound justice’ we…

Fall 2020 GPOD Grant Recipient Sheetal Sekhri (Economics), Amalia Miller (Economics), Sarah Ratcliffe (Medicine), and David Evans (Engineering) This project aims to advance scientific understanding of the potential value of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to reduce gender-based…

Fall 2020 GPOD Grant Recipient David Rapp (Urology) Critical to the success of global initiatives addressing surgical disease in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are not only efforts to provide surgical care but also to prevent surgical disease. Extensive study has proven that pelvic floor…