Americas

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.

Lithium Territories investigates the current disciplinary debates on Hinterlands Urbanisms and reclaims the agency of design in devising more socially and environmentally just futures.

Using South Korea’s pharmaceuticals industry and Argentina’s agri-biotech sector as case studies, this research delves into how the contemporary developmental states navigate the complex regulation-innovation nexus.

The preliminary hypothesis of my project is that nostalgia was deployed as a literary artifact by traveling subjects from the Caribbean in their intimate discourses.

This project seeks to examine the potential of cultural and environmental repair in the face of the climate crisis in the Greater United States.

CGII funds support participation by Tribal citizens in the Siouan-Caddoan Languages Conference hosted at Brooks Hall May 27–29, 2022.

This project seeks to develop and pilot a construction application for non-linear wood through the development of a computational construction workflow in which logs are robotically scanned and manufactured into interlocking, structural blocks.

My project, “The Global Voices of Black Mountain College,” will contribute to a narrative podcast series telling the story of Black Mountain College, an experimental liberal arts college that existed from 1933-1957 in rural North Carolina.

Informed by the perspective of Global South studies, my project explores the ideological tensions within the Popular Socialist Party (PSP) between 1953 and 1954.

My work focuses on the transnational peace movement during the last decade of the Cold War.