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Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient Ganiyu Jimoh (History of Art and Architecture Program) The period (1960–1977) witnessed the influx of African American Artists to Africa in search of the “authentic” African identity and to locate their iconography within the lived experience of the continent. This…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient Bania Garcia Sanchez (Anthropology) I will research ideophones and interjections used in speech practices in Zapotec wedding rituals. This project centers on Zapotec as spoken in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico: a contact zone for Zapotec, Zoque, Ikook, and…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient Caroline Carter (Program in Mediterranean Art and Archaeology, Department of Art) On average, over 16,000 people ascend the rocky outcrop of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece each day. The main attractions are the remains of the monumental religious buildings, namely the…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 FGRU Recipient Charlotte Rogers (Lisa Smith Discovery Chair, Associate Professor of Spanish, Convener in Environmental Humanities)  This project seeks to establish an eco-cultural study of the Ecological Park of the Ceiba Tree of Vieques, Puerto Rico. The community-led park features a…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient Sylvia Tidey (Anthropology, Global Studies) This project is a comparative ethnographic study of gender-based community care programs and their impact on LGBTQ elderly in a non-Western context. Specifically, it aims to investigate three unique initiatives meant to…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient James Savage (Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) Savage's research analyzes how the European Union and its twenty-seven member states have financed and budgeted for the expenses associated with the ongoing migration and refugee crises, COVID-19, and…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient Mandy Rispoli (School of Education and Human Development), with collaborators from Indiana University School of Medicine, USA and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kenya  Autism has a growing global prevalence rate of 1 in 100 children. Autistic children often…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient Jim Igoe (Anthropology) This grant will support activities related to an ongoing research project in Tanzania, which explores the concepts of dignity and heritage in Maasai lifeworlds, in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and similar target-based policy…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient Julide Etem (Media Studies) This project is about films that are often categorized as educational, nontheatrical or nonfiction. Etem will contextualize these films within a significant body of film activities in Turkey and the United States in the 20th century. Etem…
Posted on 12/07/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient Mona El Khafif (School of Architecture) Lithium Territories investigates the current disciplinary debates on Hinterlands Urbanisms and reclaims the agency of design in devising more socially and environmentally just futures. The project will initiate a research…
Posted on 12/07/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient Michaela Dubay (School of Education and Human Development) In Bolivia, autism diagnoses are most often delayed or missed due to the scare number of healthcare professionals with autism training or expertise. This project will create a network of highly trained…
Posted on 12/07/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient Sonia Alconini (UVA)  Kylie Quave (GWU)  George Mentore (UVA)  We propose to convene in 2024 an international gathering of scholars and practitioners working across different disciplines in the Amazonian and Andean regions. There are emerging environmental and…
Posted on 06/06/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Steve Parks (English) Recent scholarship has indicated that more than outside aid, the success of an non-violent campaign fror democratic rights depends on the skills of the campaign leadership. Building off that research, the Democratic Futures Working Group (DFWG)…
Posted on 06/06/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Theodore Teichman (Architecture) What if we stop treating soil like dirt? Iceland provides a unique microcosm for the complex entanglements of being soil due to the natural conditions of being an island, the heightened reactivity to environmental…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Emily Warwick (Politics) My current research is focused on collective action and informal governance in the COVID-19 pandemic responses seen in the favelas of urban Brazil, particularly in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Thanks in part to the generous…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Carlos Velazco Fernández (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) Informed by the perspective of Global South studies, my project explores the ideological tensions within the Popular Socialist Party (PSP) between 1953 and 1954‒when the agendas of the PSP…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Madeline Smith (Architecture) This project consists of a year-long thesis study surrounding the influence of French garden design on the American landscape as traced through the distribution of French botanical art of the 18th century. This research…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Nicholas Scott (History) In this project, which is part of my dissertation, I seek to reconstruct the links between the Catholic Church and Chile’s socialist revolution through a targeted study of the Vicuña Mackenna industrial zone located in…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Kathleen King (Music) This project aims to explore how soundscape studies are conducted on Indigenous land and how Indigenous knowledge is utilized and effected by such research. Through observing soundscape ecologists in the field at the Virginia…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Josué Godoy (History) My project explores the ways Indigenous intellectuals in the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) of the 1970s articulated non-Western ways of being in their mobilization of Indigenous peasantry to social action. These…