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Posted on 04/12/2023
Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient
Nasrin Olla (English and Africana Studies)
In contemporary public discourse, transparency is surreptitiously held up as a social good. If a politician, citizen, or person claims to be transparent, then they also claim to be more trustworthy, honest, and ethical…
Posted on 04/12/2023
Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient
Ariana Maki (Religious Studies)
This CGII Center Grant supports the next phase of targeted field research in the South Asian nation of Bhutan, part of a larger project on the roles of specific individuals in creating a distinctive ‘Bhutanese art’ between the…
Posted on 04/12/2023
Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient
Michael G. Lee (Architecture)
The Italian landscape has for centuries been a locus amoenus of male same-sex desire. Serving as an idealized setting for homoerotic visual representation and narratives of self-discovery in painting, photography, and film, it has…
Posted on 04/12/2023
Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipients
Janet Horne & Alison Levine (French)
This grant supports the creation of a collaborative working group to foster interdisciplinary conversation among UVA faculty working on West Africa, and to advance research collaborations between UVA and the Université…
Posted on 04/12/2023
Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient
David J. Getsy (Art)
As part of a book in progress on the social and geographic proximities of the queer performance and activist cultures of downtown New York City in the 1970s, I will be conducting research in the Downtown Collection of the Fales Library, New…
Posted on 04/12/2023
Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient
Geoffrey M. Geise (Chemical Engineering)
Need for access to clean water is one of the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century and a critical challenge for South Africa. This project will stimulate collaborative STEM…
Posted on 04/12/2023
Spring 2023 Center Grant Recipient
Federico Cuatlacuatl (Art)
Migrant Nahua Futurisms is multimedia production that proposes to highlight U.S migratory experiences and traumas of indigenous communities from Cholula, Puebla. Through an ongoing series of short experimental films, multimedia…
Posted on 03/02/2023
This semester, Profs. Cheryl Krueger and Ari Blatt, both in the Department of French, are co-facilitating a new, 1-credit reading seminar in which 17 undergraduate students are participating in the “Choix Goncourt USA,” an initiative sponsored by the French Cultural Services of the French Embassy.…
Posted on 02/09/2023
2023 GIG Recipient
Lise M. Dobrin (Anthropology)
This CGII GIG grant will support a residency at UVA this April by Dr. Andrew Moutu, former Director of
the Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery. Dr. Moutu, whose own research focus is the
New Guinea Sepik, holds a PhD in Anthropology…
Posted on 01/26/2023
Fall 2022 FGRU Recipient
Vanessa Guerra (School of Architecture)
Planners and design professionals need a better understanding of the development and management of informal urban practices in cities. This lack of understanding leads to poor planning and design interventions toward larger socio-…
Posted on 01/03/2023
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Ash Duhrkoop (Art History)
Lubumbashi is the mining capital of the DRC. Since the height of the colonial mining industry in the early 20th century, artists from the region have proposed alternative ways of engaging with the landscape and its mineral abundance, while…
Posted on 01/03/2023
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Dustin Thomas (Mediterranean Art & Archaeology)
This project will explore dynamics of intercultural interaction on the island of Cyprus during the first millennium BCE. It will create of digital 3D models of ancient Cypriot votive sculptures from the Fralin Museum…
Posted on 01/03/2023
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Cherrie Kwok (English)
Cherrie Kwok will focus on advancing her dissertation project about the relationship between anti-imperialism and a late nineteenth-century artistic and literary style named Decadence, and fulfilling her research agenda at The Decadence Research…
Posted on 12/13/2022
Fall 2023 GPOD Recipient
Olanrewaju Lasisi (Architectural History)
Oludamini Ogunnaike (Religious Studies)
Robin Garcia (Global Studies)
Ayodeji Ogunnaike (African American and African Studies)
The project "Performing the Past: An Exploration of Yoruba Agemo Rituals as Multimodal Historical …
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Felix Zuber (History)
My work focuses on the transnational peace movement during the last decade of the Cold War. CGII’s generous funding will help me access the Swarthmore Peace Collection, which will allow me to shed light on grassroots peace activism in 1980s America…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Su Yeone Jeon (Sociology)
My project reconceptualizes the meaning of development in the contemporary context by examining how regulation impacts the innovation-oriented activities of firms from late developer countries. While the regulatory environment has long been…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Theodore Teichman (Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture)
This research takes the form of a creative documentary film to describe and interpret how the pharmaceuticals have shaped the landscape specifically looking at the impending crisis of the rise of antibiotic…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Sergio Manuel Silva (Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese)
This project interrogates the complex interaction between Muisca religious practices and the Spanish colonial system of devotional imagery in seventeenth century Santafé (present-day Bogotá). Particularly, this…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
William Shivers (Constructed Environment, School of Architecture)
This project seeks to examine the potential of cultural and environmental repair in the face of the climate crisis in the Greater United States. Focusing on the Big Island of Hawai`i, this project will…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Lana Hye-Joe Park (Sociology)
In many cases of disaster, the why questions arise: Why did the disaster happen? Why did the victims die? Why should the bereaved suffer with their loss? This project explores how these why questions are dealt with differently by the state,…