Center Grants

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

This project studies the domestic and international roots of the ethnopolitical transformation in Yanbian, the Korean autonomous region along the Chinese-North Korean border, as a unique case of China’s modern territoriality change and state building in its frontiers.

Recent scholarship has indicated that more than outside aid, the success of an non-violent campaign for democratic rights depends on the skills of the campaign leadership.

With our Kenyan partners, we will use these results to develop the “Pepea in Schools” teacher professional development program. 

Reading is one of the foundational practices at the heart of human culture.

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

The project attempts to fill knowledge gaps about rural life in ancient Attica, illuminating the role of its frontiers.

What if we stop treating soil like dirt?

This project aims to explore how soundscape studies are conducted on Indigenous land and how Indigenous knowledge is utilized and effected by such research.

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.