Center Grants

My book analyzes the financial, ideological, and political investments made by a cohort of black activist-entrepreneurs, government officials, and corporate executives in black empowerment politics.

My dissertation explores the making of the New International Economic Order (NIEO)—and the demands for economic sovereignty and a “right to development” it embodied—from the perspective(s) of sub-Saharan Africa.

How can we examine poetry and production from an environmental perspective?

As Japan built its empire in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, it enforced assimilationist policies that changed the lives of the people in its territories.

Academic knowledge production often involves imbalances of power, as researchers from the Global North have frequently conducted studies in marginalized communities in the Global South.

This project explores how new recording technologies (immersive video, spatial audio, and motion capture) can be used to document, preserve, and transmit embodied cultural practices of aboriginal communities in Australia’s Northern Territory.

My research studies continuity and discontinuity amongst the inhabitants of char areas on the Kurigram District tributary of the Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh.

Designed to put artists at the center of social, political, economic and cultural transformation, the Black Power Station is a locally and collectively-owned Pan African arts center in Makhanda, South Africa that aspires towards global connectivity and collaboration.

This project will initiate energy storage collaborations in Nordic countries, starting with Finland and Iceland.

This institute seeks to reimagine the critical vocabulary of religious studies through the use of Chinese concepts, as a way of decentering and decolonizing the study of religion.