Center Grants

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.

The goal of this repository is to facilitate a deeper understanding of the artistic production of slums dwellers by speaking to questions of identity, race, diversity, and social justice.

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.

My dissertation focuses on the Castilian translation of the Lapidario (or Lapidary), a manuscript commissioned by King Alfonso the Wise.

This in-depth qualitative study examines Korean-American immigrant families’ processes of meaning-making and action in relation to the formal education of children, and the role of a Korean immigrant church community network.

Archival investigation at Barcelona’s Historical Archive and the General Protocols Archive from 16th of May to 14th June, 2022, would help me tracing the cultural and economic networks that interlace in the documents sent and written through the last half of the 19th Century including transatlantic and transpacific Barcelona’s connection.

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

This ethnographic project investigates the worldbuilding practices of sustainable finance professionals in Germany and the United States vis-à-vis their legal and occupational constraints.

The project examines portraits of the Ottonian rulers Henry II and Kunigunde (r. 1002-1024) featured in manuscripts, altar frontals, and other liturgical implements within their early-eleventh-century cathedral treasury contexts.

My ethnographic research explores multigenerational experiences with precarity and aspiration in the Kahe Ward of northern Tanzania.