Asia

This project launches the Asian Urbanism Collaborative (AUC) as a global platform to advance the research and teaching in Asian urbanization.

China continues to consolidate its emerging position as a global power in a post-Covid world.

“Colorism” — the institutionalized hierarchy which privileges white or light skin color — appears to have been increasingly globalized in recent years.

This ethnographic research investigates the contexts associated with Buddhist practices and how people incorporate traditional understandings of religious practices with innovative approaches to contemporary meditation in a living Buddhist society.

This interdisciplinary and collaborative research program is dedicated to the study of digital technologies and their consequences for local democracy.

The Burmese Democratic Futures Working Group brings together university faculty, Burmese democratic advocates, and non-profit democratic/human rights organization leadership to explore the history and current state of non-violent democratic movements in Myanmar.

As Filipino nurses remain an elusive subject of history, their present-day hypervisibility casts a ghostly shadow­ haunting the legacy of United States imperialism.

The CGII grant will support the final stage of my dissertation research, which entails examines how Tibetan communities on the margins of the Sinosphere use supplemental education programs to navigate Chinese hegemony exerted through mainstream schooling.

My research focuses of Sufism, which has conceptualized as ‘heterodox’ or ‘unorthodox’ by certain Muslim reformers and Orientalist scholars.

My project analyzes the spectacular return of the sacred to post-Soviet Russian public sphere following seventy years of forced secularization.