Center Grants

This project seeks to revitalize study of the intimate as a critical site for the humanistic study of empire and its postcolonial legacies.

My book offers a critique of this ideal of transparency by turning to a global collection of African and African diasporic writers who reimagined ideals of ethical and equitable relations by revaluing opacity, nebulosity, unreadability, and the non-revelatory in their novels, poetry, and art.

This CGII Center Grant supports the next phase of targeted field research in the South Asian nation of Bhutan.

As part of a book in progress on the social and geographic proximities of the queer performance and activist cultures of downtown New York City in the 1970s, I will be conducting research in the Downtown Collection of the Fales Library, New York University.

My project considers the contested heritage debate in the former Serbian province of Kosovo on the example of four medieval Eastern Orthodox monasteries, all UNESCO World Heritage sites.

This project is a comparative ethnographic study of gender-based community care programs and their impact on LGBTQ elderly in a non-Western context.

Concerted efforts to study China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) at the University began with the major conference, “Complementing and Competing Visions of China’s Belt and Road Initiative,” held on March 2, 2019.

This project consists of a year-long thesis study surrounding the influence of French garden design on the American landscape as traced through the distribution of French botanical art of the 18th century.

We propose to convene in 2024 an international gathering of scholars and practitioners working across different disciplines in the Amazonian and Andean regions.

The project takes the Spanish Civil War as a site of confluence between Spain’s internal history, its imperial past in Latin America and Africa, Black international anti-imperialism, and Cuban communism, among other socio-historical configurations.