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Posted on 05/29/2019
Jeanine Braithwaite, Professor of Public Policy (Batten)
Gender and poverty in Senegal have not been thoroughly studied. The World Bank (2015)
found unexpectedly that female-headed households were less poor than
average (unlike the case in most African countries), but did not probe this result.
We…
Posted on 05/29/2019
Simone Polillo, Associate Professor (Sociology)
This project looks at the evolution of economic discourse in post-WWII Italy, with a specific focus on the annual reports authored and delivered to the public by the Italian Central Bank, and the press coverage received by these influential documents…
Posted on 05/29/2019
Dorothy Wong, Professor of Art and Director, East Asia Center
Concerted efforts to study China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) at the University began with the major conference, “Complementing and Competing Visions of China’s Belt and Road Initiative,” held on March 2, 2019. Funded by both the…
Posted on 05/29/2019
Gary Koenig, Associate Professor (Chemical Engineering)
This project will initiate energy storage collaborations in Nordic countries, starting with Finland and Iceland. The high adoption of low carbon energy within Nordic countries has pushed research into energy storage in this region, both to…
Posted on 05/29/2019
Nomi Dave, Assistant Professor (Critical & Comparative Studies) and Rachel Wahl, Assistant Professor (Curry)
Academic knowledge production often involves imbalances of power, as researchers from the Global North have frequently conducted studies in marginalized communities in the Global South…
Posted on 05/29/2019
Alison Posey, PhD Candidate (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)
As a PhD student in the Department of Spanish, my research focuses on literary engagements with nationalism, populism, and terrorism in the emerging field of Basque Studies, and my dissertation project deals with the representation of…
Posted on 05/29/2019
Saad Quasem, PhD Candidate (Anthropology)
My research studies continuity and discontinuity amongst the inhabitants of char areas on the Kurigram District tributary of the Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh. Chars or river islands form, deform and change shape along with the movement of the river. For…
Posted on 05/29/2019
Joanne Britland, PhD Candidate (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese)
My dissertation “Sufrir, salir, sobrevivir: Cultural Responses to the 2008 Crisis in Spain” examines questions of migration, poverty, economics, and sociology, as depicted through culture. The funds from the Center of Global Inquiry…
Posted on 05/29/2019
Michelle Walsh, PhD Candidate (Religious Studies)
This research project investigates the use of contemplative Buddhist practices and their associated traditional, yet changing, contexts in Bhutan. Specifically, through participant observation and interviews, I examine how people are developing…
Posted on 05/29/2019
Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, Associate Professor (Aegean and Near Eastern Archaeology)
The students will form an essential part of KASP’s pedestrian field team during the first campaign, along with students from other universities, the co-directors and specialist scholars (see below ‘global mission’).…
Posted on 05/29/2019
Herman Mark Schwartz, Professor (Politics) publishes article in the Review of International Political Economy, May 27, 2019: American hegemony.
Posted on 12/05/2018
The University of Virginia’s Yamuna River Project is an inter-disciplinary research program whose objective is to revitalize the ecology of the Yamuna River in New Delhi, thus reconnecting India’s capital city back to the water.
For more information, visit the YRP’s web page here.
Posted on 12/05/2018
Alison J. Murray Levine (French) Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako will be at UVA for an artist residency from April 9-13, 2015. The program's centerpiece is a free public screening and discussion with the filmmaker around his most recent film, "Timbuktu". This event will be held at the…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Allison Bigelow (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) On 13-14 October, 2016, the Program in Latin American Studies will host a symposium to examine the relationship between global and area studies scholarship. "Latin American Studies: Past, Present, Future" will…
Posted on 12/05/2018
ProfessorVivian Thomsonand University of S√£o Paulo (USP) faculty colleagues will work with two Environmental Thought and Practice majors and selected USP students on a Waste Initiative. The ETP students will ask, how do the catadores, Brazil's waste collectors and recyclers, contribute to…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Susan Palazzo(Anthropology) My dissertation research seeks to understand the process of changing identities in the interior of Sardinia during the Middle and Late Bronze Age (c. 1600-850 BCE) by examining changes in foodways over time. I will examine…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Anthony Averbeck (Architecture) This research examines the future of rural space in a world increasingly characterized by mass migration to megacities. The contemporary focus on urbanism perpetuates the traditional urban/rural divide and dismisses the…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, Assistant Professor of Politics, and Deena Hurwitz, Professor of Law, developed the opportunity for several undergraduates to serve as research assistants in a project related to their broad initiative to evaluate the compatibility of women's rights with both Islamic…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Lorena Ochoa Campo (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)
In June, I will participate in a seminar with feminist scholar Luce Irigaray at the University of Warwick, UK. This seminar gathers researchers from varied disciplines from around the world and is a…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2014 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Peter Debaere (Business) Leading up to World Water Day on the 22nd of March, UVA's 2nd Annual World Water Week will feature a series of events on and around Grounds, ranging from lectures by notable speakers to research meetings to a local river clean-up. Along…