Americas

This project will create an interdisciplinary and international research-education working group constituted by educators from universities, industry and NGO in US and China, to develop a multi-sited study that address the tangled geopolitics of innovation, sustainability and standardization of smart cities in the US-China context.

Which are the political reasons behind the migration movements involving the Global South at the beginning of the 20th Century?

Our project investigates how cultural practitioners from Colombia are employing the humanities to promote peace and respond to a long history of political and social violence.

This dissertation explores how music and musical performances are used to mediate trauma and memory, and the influence that these mediations have on identities at individual and community levels.

I will be able to attend this course and gain key insight into the process of moving print editions to the digital realm, familiarity with new digital humanities tools, and information regarding copyright and distribution issues.

The Center's funds enabled me to present a conference paper based on my developing dissertation.

My dissertation investigates the visual and material culture of the California missions in order to understand the interplay of form and practice in bringing about religious conversion within a colonial context.

My research centers on a nascent collaboration between conservationists and Jamaican Maroons.

By how much could countries raise their income per capita by adopting regulations that enhance competition between firms?

Today the United States is faced with questions about immigration policies and the conflict of those policies with the moral imperative to care for people seeking refuge from war torn areas of the world.