Center Grants

The book project, “Capitals in the Margins: South Asia Since Partition” seeks to answer why, despite the shared experience of colonial British rule and a shared investment in anticolonial nationalist movements, South Asia remains the least integrated region in the world.

This research integrates several methods to comprehend the movements of forcibly displaced people in Athens, Greece, and neighboring areas.

Outcomes include a suite of new practices, an open access Generative Contemplation Toolkit, and launch of the Contemplative Design Lab at UVA.

Many occupier governments seek to permanently integrate occupied territories into their national borders.

Where did Britain look for its future as the British Empire came to an end in the twentieth century?

The Italian landscape has for centuries been a locus amoenus of male same-sex desire.

This project develops new visions for futurities directly informed from Nahua multidimensionality concepts of time traveling and re-envisioning futuristic indigenous migrant resiliency.

Throughout antiquity, alcohol belonged to private and public realms, devotional and everyday settings.

Moving beyond the primacy of the optical, reproducibility and “surfacism” in understanding photography (Pinney, 2003), the exhibition will offer new vantage points to approach the medium making visible the haptic, gendered, material and decolonial dimensions of photographs. 

Research looking at late nineteenth century uses of informal, marriage-like relationships to navigate changing economic contexts and divorce and inheritance laws in Mexico and Guatemala