The Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation (CGII) was founded to encourage and fund global research throughout the University of Virginia.
CGII's mission is to stimulate inquiry in all fields and disciplines (arts, humanities, social sciences, STEM), to promote interdisciplinary and collaborative practices, and to address challenges of global scale, scope, concern, perspective, and impact.
We are especially interested in projects that extend the range of methodologies and expand possibilities for collaboration among UVa colleagues and colleagues beyond UVa and outside the U.S.
Founding Director Professor Brian Owensby established the Center to engage UVa faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students in the work of investigating global research topics, with the idea that all inquiry speaks to the world broadly.
CGII Team
- Brian Owensby, Professor, Corcoran Department of History; Director, Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation
- Emily Mellen, Global Communications Assistant, UVA Global
- Tim Troy, Administrative Generalist
Grant Selection Committee
- Gary Koenig, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering
- Amanda Nguyen, Research Professor, School of Education and Human Development
- Brian Owensby, Professor, Corcoran Department of History, College of Arts & Sciences
- Kathryn Quissell, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine
- Kyle Schumann, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture