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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…
Posted on 04/17/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Tessa Bryant (Architecture)
In the face of climate disaster and gross inequity, degrowth is a sociopolitical movement that proposes an alternative to the hegemony of capitalist economism and commodification, advocating for a collectively supportive, equitable and non-…
Posted on 04/17/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Ari Bell (Architecture)
Through participation in the Wright-Ingraham Institute’s Icelandic Field Stations program, this project will advance research at the intersection of science, the humanities, and landscape architecture. By engaging in field work, writing, and…
Posted on 04/17/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Rashmi Banerjee (History)
My doctoral project examines the complex legal and social attitudes towards women who committed 'reproductive crimes' such as infanticide and abortion in colonial India. Through the late 19th and early 20th centuries, rapid professionalization…
Posted on 04/17/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Musa Kazim Azimli (History)
The Ottoman Imperial Slave Market (Esir Han) in Istanbul operated for over two centuries and was conceivably the largest slave market in the Middle East until the date of its closure by the order of Sultan Abdülmecid in 1847. After this date,…
Posted on 04/17/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient
Manuel Acevedo-Reyes (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese)
What are the limits of Puerto Rican nationalism? The funds from the CGII will enable me to travel to Puerto Rico and visit the unofficial archive of René Marqués to explore his novel La mirada (1976) and his…
Posted on 04/13/2023
Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient
Giulia Paoletti (Art)
Picturing Fabrics: Textile and the Photographic Image explores photography’s—intimate, material and theoretical—entanglements with textile across histories and geographies, spanning from Henry Fox Talbot’s lace photographs of the 1830s to…
Posted on 04/12/2023
Spring 2023 FGRU Grant Recipient
Spencer Phillips (Global Studies)
In this “Community-Engaged” education abroad program UVA undergraduates will gain applied research experience focused on the proposed redevelopment of a 40-km stretch of the Hồng (Red) River in Vietnam’s capital. UVA scholars will…
Posted on 04/12/2023
Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient
Tyler Jo Smith (Art)
Throughout antiquity, alcohol belonged to private and public realms, devotional and everyday settings. It could be a marker of status, a sign of luxury, an indicator of reverence, pay for a hard day’s work, the complement to a good meal, or…
Posted on 04/12/2023
Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient
Michael Sheehy (Contemplative Sciences Center and Religious Studies Department)
The workshop will integrate humanistic scholarship on historical contemplative practices with design thinking to generate new applications for higher education. We will convene a…