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Posted on 10/18/2023
Fall 2023 FGRU Recipient
Lauren Austin McQuistion (Architecture)
In the fall of 1982, Jaquelin Robertson, Dean of the UVA School of Architecture, hosted an international conference dedicated to the state of architectural practices. Staged in the Rotunda, the prominent architects invited to attend…
Posted on 10/18/2023
Fall 2023 FGRU Recipient
Thomas Koberda (Mathematics)
The Vietnam Polymath REU is a research program for undergraduates targeted at promising Vietnamese mathematics undergraduates, modeled after the highly successful Polymath Junior REU in the United States. In the summer of 2024, the…
Posted on 05/12/2023
Spring 2023 GPOD Recipients
Phoebe Crisman (Architecture/Global Environments + Sustainability); David Edmunds (Global Development Studies); Howard Epstein (Environmental Sciences); Lora Henderson Smith (Education School)
Changing climate requires resilient ecological systems, human communities,…
Posted on 05/12/2023
Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient
Phoebe Crisman (Architecture, Global Studies)
The Aegean islands are experiencing the dramatic effects of climate change, including droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, rising seas, and massive migration from nearby failing states. Yet, Greece plans to achieve net…
Posted on 05/04/2023
Spring 2023 GPOD Recipient
Jennie Chiu (Education)
This project aims to understand how to make computer science education equitable and accessible for learners across cultural, social, and economic contexts. Researchers from the University of Virginia, UVA-WISE, and the Universidad del Norte in…
Posted on 04/28/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Isabel Bielat (History)
With GGR support, I plan to investigate nineteenth-century Iberian and Latin American periodicals at the Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE). Noting the cross-cultural legibility of social authority, I argue that nineteenth-century British…
Posted on 04/27/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Courtney Averkamp (Religious Studies)
My research focuses on applications of Mahatma Gandhi’s spiritual, moral, and political philosophy to the ecological and agricultural crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Graduate Global Research Grant has enabled me to observe…
Posted on 04/27/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Jessica Montgomery (Economics)
While economists agree that property rights are important for economic growth, it is still unclear which component of property rights matters the most for development and how much formalizing property rights matters in contexts where…
Posted on 04/25/2023
Spring 2023 FGRU Grant Recipient
Kathryn Quissell (Medicine)
Moral values, some of the most deeply held beliefs an individual or a culture can hold, are particularly difficult to change. In this study, we seek to understand the relationship between advocacy for and against abortion and policy…
Posted on 04/25/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Beatriz Silva da Costa (Politics)
Brazil is known for bid rigging, that is a form of collusion, involving companies that should be genuinely competing to win a contract secretly conspiring to raise prices or lower the quality of offered goods or services during a bidding…
Posted on 04/25/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Audrius Rickus (History)
“Making France Global, 1974-83” explores France’s attempt to remake itself from a great into a global power. In the 1970s, Paris jettisoned its past embrace of imperial modes of power and set up innovative arrangements to create and control…
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…