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Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
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Toluwalogo Odumosu (Engineering and Society) Workshop: STS Africa is a workshop that will highlight and address the structural challenges faced by STS scholars and their scholarship from, on, and about the continent of Africa. The conference will contribute to…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Miguel Valladares-Llata (Academic Engagement, Library) By supporting the participation of Professor Arrua Avalos (Director of National Archive of Asunci√≥n) at SALALM 2018 (Mexico DF, July 1-4, 2018), the CGII grant will have multiple benefits: 1) It will help…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Anna Eisenstein (Anthropology) Across sub-Saharan Africa, heart failure has become one of the most prevalent forms of chronic disease. Because heart failure treatment includes not only medication, but also diet, exercise, and lifestyle modifications,…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Robert Stolz, Brad Pasanek (English) and Chris Ali (Media Studies)
An invited lecture series in the Spring of 2018, "Expulsion-Extraction-Extinction," will host speakers who work on intersectional issues of global economic, racial, and environmental justice…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Jessica Gephart (Environmental Science),"The Current and Future Water Footprint of Fisheries" Fares Karam (Education),"Multilingualism and Identity: The Linguistic Landscape of Beirut"; learn more about Karam's work inUVA Today Matthew Reames (Education),"Danish Practices for Children's…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Bremen Donovan (Anthropology) Over the summer I will be investigating how videos of policing made by law enforcement and ordinary people are being introduced into French judicial proceedings. Through fieldwork in Paris and surrounding banlieues, I will…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Hank Shugart (Environmental Sciences) The Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program will enhance Dr. Natasha S. Ribeiro's capacities to conduct/coordinate research and expand partnerships in the USA, notably at the University of Virginia. Following her work with us,…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Manuela Achilles (German Studies) Spearheaded by the Center for German Studies and in collaboration with fifteen units at UVa, this year-long initiative will bring some of the top scholars in the field of migration and refugee studies to Grounds for a speaker…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Asher Biemann(Center for German Studies, Religious Studies) The Center for German Studies, together with fifteen units at UVa, the Heinrich B√∂ll Foundation, and the German Embassy in Washington, DC, is organizing an interdisciplinary conference on the global…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Rachael Givens Johnson (History) The Center's funds enabled me to present a conference paper based on my developing dissertation. My project examines the encounters between Enlightenment and Baroque devotional imaginaries in the Spanish eighteenth-…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Sandip Sukhtankar (Economics), Isaac Mbiti (Batten), Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner (Politics) Over the past fifteen years, a new wave of empirical research in the field of global development has emerged that aims to examine the most pressing challenges facing…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Sandip Sukhtankar, Isaac Mbiti, Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner (Economics, Batten, Politics) Over the past fifteen years, a new wave of empirical research in the field of global development has emerged that aims to examine the most pressing challenges facing…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Faculty
James Savage (Politics) This project analyzes how the European Union and its twenty-eight member states financed and budgeted for the expenses associated with the migration and refugee crises. Between 2015 and 2017 some 2.6 million migrants and refugees entered…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Brittany Sutherland(Biology) Biologists often find studying widespread species challenging for many reasons, not least of which is the necessity to navigate different governments, languages, and cultures when species cross international borders. This…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Seth Salcedo (Architecture) Geography of Exception attempts to provide a foundation with which to understand the complexities of Guantanamo Bay as a both a historical anomaly and a geopolitical grey zone all in an effort to project an architectural…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Deborah Lawrence, Professor of Environmental Science, will include an undergraduate student in an ongoing research project between UVa and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) to investigate how land use change affects carbon storage in Indonesian peatlands. Large scale changes in…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Matthew Burtner (Music) The Global Ecoacoustics Project is a collaborative global initiative between the University of Virginia, and institutions in Australia, Colorado and Alaska. A cohort of universities and museums have joined together to imagine a year-long…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Corinne Field (Women, Gender, and Sexuality)
The Global History of Black Girlhood Conference will enable an interdisciplinary network of scholars to frame the emerging field of black girl history. The project grows out of the History of Black Girlhood Network…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Anne GarlandMahler (Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese) TheSymposium and Workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary and multinational group of scholars in March 2019 togenerate dialogue on the impact of contemporary capitalist globalization on diverse…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Tony Tian-Ren Lin (Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) The Global Thriving Cities Project is an extension of theThriving Cities Project. It seeks to employ a cultural model for understand urban ecosystems through six endowments that form the building…