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Posted on 04/24/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Josué Godoy (History)
My project explores the ways Indigenous and Afro-Andean activists worked within, or were in conflict with, revolutionary class-based organizations in the Northern Andean region encompassing the countries of Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador during the…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Nadav Zadokya (History)
“For the Profit of Our Subjects:” The Jews of Mantua and the Counter-Reformation State, 1550-1650 details the close relationship between the Jews of Mantua and the ruling Gonzaga dynasty. Using Jews’ letters to the court, I argue that the Jews of…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Oriane Guiziou-Lamour (French)
This project, at the intersection between literature, history, sociology, gender, and queer studies, based in archival works in European libraries, unearths texts and discourses on gender and sexuality in France at the turn of the 19th …
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Daniel Wright (Architecture)
Deep and thick sections of landscape representation make materials, ecology, and cultural histories visible. But the visible gives primacy to sight, so our sensory entanglements with place remain hidden. As part of participation in the Wright…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Brittany White (History)
In 1923, 400,000 Muslims living in Greece and 1.2 million Greek Orthodox Christians living in Turkey were forcibly relocated in what we now call the Greek-Turkish population exchange. This event is not understudied, but the experiences of the…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
James Barnes (Architecture)
I will conduct travel research to Denmark and Sweden to study the design and management of nature-based learning environments in K-12 schools for comparison with U.S. approaches. Outdoor educational models such as Forest Schools, founded in…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Aaron Thompson (Slavic Languages & Literatures)
Aaron’s project contributes to his dissertation, A Revolutionary Gospel, which examines how Russian writers transformed their Christian heritage into a new socialist religion while exiled in the US and Italy between…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Ayan Sharma (History)
How did British colonial efforts to expand “commodity frontiers” come to shape environmental changes on one hand and contestations over belonging, citizenship and territory on the other in South Asia? My Ph.D. project proposes to address this…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Avantika Prabhakar (Economics)
I study the interaction of state capacity and an underexplored religious institution – religious cults that center around one figure of authority. I will investigate how the emergence of these cults impact state provision of public services…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Charlotte Pitts (Architecture)
This funding will support my Masters of Architecture graduate thesis project, which will examine the possible spatial and conceptual future for post-mining landscapes in the intermountain American West. In particular, I will advance a multi…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Olivia Paschal (History)
Three major corporations came out of the Arkansas Ozarks in the mid-twentieth century: Walmart, Tyson Foods, and J.B. Hunt. I am interested in the intertwined development of these three companies and the larger industries and economies they…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Gina Lee (Architecture)
Landscapes and memory have a symbiotic relationship. Landscape is a work of the mind, yet simultaneously shapes and influences human thinking and consciousness. The idea of landscape is projected onto physical form, constructed, and continually…
Posted on 04/17/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Lucas Martinez (English)
Born in the port cities of the Rio de la Plata in the late 19th century from the gatherings of immigrants and criollos, the milonga constitutes a unique lyric, music, and dance form. Milongas have become an important part of South American…
Posted on 04/17/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Sophie Maffie (Architecture)
As a Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate at the University of Virginia, Sophie Maffie will utilize this research for her Master’s Thesis. Fibers of Resilience will examine the relationship between indigenous horticultural traditions…
Posted on 04/17/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Julia MacNelly (Architecture)
Using material collection and hybrid drawings, this project explores how bodies function within different types of building processes – from adobe construction, to compressed earth, to the monolithic concrete developments that are ubiquitous…
Posted on 04/17/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Aik Sai Goh (Religious Studies)
The Tsz Shan Monastery Buddhist Art Museum in Hong Kong, which opened in 2019, is one of the world’s largest Buddhist mega-projects with a state-of-the-art museum underneath a colossal Guanyin statue. The proliferation of Buddhist museums…
Posted on 04/17/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Michael Gerson (Architecture)
America's Disappearing Chinatowns: A Case for Preservation is a project that examines the history, architecture, and proliferation of Chinatowns in the American urban landscape, chronicling their development in the U.S., documenting their…
Posted on 04/17/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Yafrainy Familia (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)
My dissertation project develops an archipelagic analysis of gender and space in the contemporary cultural production of the Caribbean and its diasporas. Drawing from a diverse archive—including painting, photography,…
Posted on 04/17/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Hector Duenes (History)
My project focuses on analyzing indigenous subjecthood in the Spanish Empire through examination of the Tehuantepec rebellion of 1660-1661. I argue that the analysis of Indigenous subjecthood can reveal the colonial structure of the Spanish Empire…
Posted on 04/17/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Hao Chen (History)
This project studies the interaction between ethnopolitics in Yanbian, the ethnic Korean enclave in the China-North Korea borderland, and the international relationship between the two newly-emerged communist states. The post-1945 years witnessed…