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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.…

Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipients Earl Mark (Architecture) Dimitris Papanikolaou (Architecture, National Technical University of Athens) Eva Papatzani (Research Associate & Co-Principal Investigator, Centre for Social Research, Athens) This research integrates several methods to comprehend…

Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Elgin Cleckley (Architecture) Brookes (Revisited) is the first design exhibition to accurately visualize the iconic 1788 drawing  “Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788,” created by abolitionists and politicians…

Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipients Katia Dianina (Slavic Department) My project considers the contested heritage debate in the former Serbian province of Kosovo on the example of four medieval Eastern Orthodox monasteries, all UNESCO World Heritage sites.  While the Serbian side claims cultural…

Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipients Chris Carter (Politics) Daniel Gingerich (Politics) Many occupier governments seek to permanently integrate occupied territories into their national borders. Often, they pursue this goal through plebiscites, holding legitimate or sham elections to determine…

Fall 2023 GIG Recipient Steve Parks (English) Rebuilding Civil Society, Embedding Democratic Roots will examine the processes by which advocates in Zimbabwe are attempting to rebuild a grassroots democratic culture in the context of an authoritarian regime successfully resisting a strategy of…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Omokolade Omigbuile (Anthropology) Historical records attest the Bight of Biafra as a significant European entrepôt during the Trans-Atlantic period. Through archaeological evidence, this project investigates daily life and the material histories of the Trans-Atlantic…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Daniel Fishkin (Music) The daxophone is a carved hardwood strip played with a bow. The instrument’s sound, somewhere between a cello and badger, ranges from furtive gurgles to wild screams. Daniel Fishkin has been is the only Luthier to have studied with its inventor, Hans…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Andrew Avitabile (Education) Healthy Learners is an international NGO that developed an innovative, low-cost school health program in Zambia. Their program delivers a comprehensive range of services through teachers trained as “School Health Workers”. Using a Randomized…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Jennifer Marine (Art History) Historians of science and technology describe a “critical movement” in the latter half of the nineteenth century towards a rapid reformation of nature that pushed the limits of representation. Nature and its theories could no longer be…

Fall 2023 GIG Recipients Lean Sweeney (History) & Miguel Ángel Valladares-Llata (Library) From November 14 to 17 Nicaraguan activist and previous Sandinista commander Dora María Téllez and Nicaraguan human rights activist Ana Margarita Vijil will be visiting the UVA campus to talk to students…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Emily Warwick (Politics) My dissertation research seeks to develop a theory of citizen-state engagement in the context of Latin America’s urban informal settlements and how they engage with the state in the context of landslides and other environmental crises. I seek to…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Robert Porter (Biology) As rapid environmental variation becomes more pronounced in the wake of climate change, understanding how organisms adapt to changing environments becomes increasingly important. This project will investigate local adaptation in the timing of…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Nnenna Onyima (French) Nnenna Onyima studies the representation of spirits and bodies in African narratives. Her work interrogates how African creatives depict the conviction held by most African nations in the existence of the spirit world and the physical world. Nnenna…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Jeronimo Lau Alberdi (Law) The study investigates the roles of judicial diplomacy and comparativism within Latin American courts, analyzing the impact of institutional capacity and legal education on the adoption of foreign law. It explores how a court's infrastructure and…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Soumya Johri (History) With the money I received from the GGR award, I plan to do a historical analysis of the convict labor used by the British East India Company in the early nineteenth century in their newly acquired territory in the North Western Provinces of British…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Eren Jaye (French) Eren Jaye’s doctoral project considers theatres of the region from both a folkloric and ecological perspective, guided by the premise that these two are intrinsically intertwined. With a GGR grant, Eren will be traveling to investigate the Irma Goldstraw…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Benjamin Goffin (Civil Engineering & Applied Sciences) Since 2010, Central Chile has experienced particularly dry and hot conditions, which caused more severe wildfires to spread and pose an increasing threat to the Chilean population living at the wildland-urban…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Christian Cancho Ruiz (Anthropology) Archaeological excavations at San Jacinto, an ancient temple from the Formative Period on the Peruvian central coast (1500 B.C.), have revealed the architectural design of an important section of the monument. Although the excavation…

Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Eric Bredder (School of Education & Human Development) Roversa is a low-cost, flexible robot that introduces students to physical, sequential programming skills with the ability to grow with the learner. The robot currently supports Spanish/English languages leveraging…