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Posted on 04/23/2024
Spring 2024 Center Grant Recipient
Hanadi Al-Samman (MESALC)
My research project explores the artistic and cultural manifestations in which cotemporary Muslim women define their body space to defy internal, traditional restrictions and external, orientalist Western gazes. Through my examination…
Posted on 04/22/2024
Spring 2024 Center Grant Recipients
Allison Bigelow (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese)
Rafael Alvarado (School of Data Science)
We are supporting Maya-led teams in Yucatán and Guatemala to launch digital resources for long-term language revindication in their communities. Since 2020, our project…
Posted on 04/22/2024
Spring 2024 GPOD Recipients
Mandy Rispoli (EHD, Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education)
Michaela DuBay (EHD, Speech Communication Disorders Program)
The purpose of this project is to develop the STAR Global Autism Initiative as a new branch of UVa’s Supporting Transformative Autism…
Posted on 04/22/2024
Spring 2024 Center Grant Recipients
Paul Dobryden (Germanic Languages & Literatures)
Ervin Malakaj (Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, University of British Columbia)
Published a century ago, Belá Balázs’s Visible Man, or The Culture of Film (Der sichtbare Mensch, oder die…
Posted on 04/22/2024
Spring 2024 Center Grant Recipients
Tessa Farmer & Phoebe Crisman (Global Studies)
Majid Shafiee-Jood (Civil & Environmental Engineering)
This is a collaboration with the Athar Lina Initiate to conduct research and create co- design strategies for socially and contextually aware modes…
Posted on 04/22/2024
Spring 2024 Center Grant Recipient
James Savage (Politics & Public Policy)
My research examines how since Russia invaded Ukraine the European Union has budgeted and provided critical financial support from both the supranational EU level and the EU’s twenty-seven member states to aid…
Posted on 04/19/2024
Spring 2024 FGRU Recipients
Rob Garrod & M´elisse Bonfand-Caldeira (Astronomy & Chemistry)
This project seeks to unveil the mysteries of the recent detection of table salt in space. Salt molecules emit unique chemical signatures, acting as cosmic fingerprints which reveal crucial details…
Posted on 01/19/2024
Spring 2024 FGRU Recipient
Andrés Clarens (Engineering)
Concrete is one of the most important materials in modern civilization but its production generates 8% of global CO2 emissions so there is growing urgency to develop alternative low-carbon alternatives. Ancient Roman engineers produced…
Posted on 01/19/2024
Spring 2024 FGRU Recipient
Muhammad Tayyab Safdar (Global Studies)
This project explores whether Chinese investment in Gwadar Port in Pakistan, located at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical lifeline in global trade, can contribute to a significant reordering of Central Asian trade…
Posted on 01/16/2024
Spring 2024 GIG Recipient
Uta Erdbrügger (Medicine)
The 'Tiny Packages with Big Impact: Workshop on Extracellular Vesicle (EVs) Isolation and Characterization' is born from the acknowledgment of a critical gap in hands-on EV research training. These Extracellular Vesicles are small blebs (tiny…
Posted on 12/20/2023
Fall 2023 GGR Recipient
Emily Needham (History)
My project explores Martin Luther King Jr’s highly publicized visit to both East and West Berlin. King arrived in September 1964, only a few months after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and just before he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. His…
Posted on 12/13/2023
Fall 2023 GPOD Recipients
Catherine Bradshaw, Ph.D. (EHD, Department of Human Services)
Amanda Nguyen, Ph.D. (EHD, Department of Human Services)
Mercedes Gabriela Orozco Solis, Ph.D. (University of Guadalajara, Mexico)
This project aims to address growing concerns about school safety, youth…
Posted on 12/08/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient
Mohamed Ismail (Architecture)
Less Economically Developed Countries (LEDCs) are struggling to meet the demand for affordable housing in their growing cities. There are several reasons for this, but a major constraint is the high cost of construction materials.…
Posted on 11/27/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient
Neeti Nair (History)
The book project, “Capitals in the Margins: South Asia Since Partition” seeks to answer why, despite the shared experience of colonial British rule and a shared investment in anticolonial nationalist movements, South Asia remains the least…
Posted on 11/27/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient
Matthew Chin (Women Gender and Sexuality Studies)
This study explores the relationship between Britain’s abolition of slavery in its Caribbean colonies (1838) and its instigation of the First Opium War with China (1839). It counters the epistemic silence that…
Posted on 11/26/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient
Jennifer Sessions (History)
This project seeks to revitalize study of the intimate as a critical site for the humanistic study of empire and its postcolonial legacies. Hosting the annual meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society will bring scholars from…
Posted on 11/26/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient
Natasha Heller (Religious Studies)
This project uses the many religious sites in the red cypress forest of Alishan to investigate conceptions of human and nonhuman personhood in twentieth century Taiwan. Through close reading of visual and textual evidence, I…
Posted on 11/26/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient
Erik Linstrum (History)
Where did Britain look for its future as the British Empire came to an end in the twentieth century? The usual answer—the European Economic Community, which Britain joined in 1973—misses a much longer and more complex story about British…
Posted on 11/26/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient
Lean Sweeney (History)
Lean Sweeney’s Individual Faculty Research grant from the CGII supports archival research looking at late nineteenth century uses of informal, marriage-like relationships to navigate changing economic contexts and divorce and inheritance…
Posted on 11/26/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient
Margo Smith (Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection)
Yolŋu cultural practitioner and activist Mayatili Marika will deliver the W. Wanambi Distinguished Lecture in the Dome Room of the Rotunda on February 3, 2024, followed by a reception in the Upper West Oval Room.…