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Our proposed project investigates two community-led initiatives to develop infrastructure to support community-based research.

Sylvia Chong and Patricia Nguyen, Fall 2024 CGII Center Grant Research

Tarushi Sonthalia, CGII 2024 GGR Project

This project seeks to better understand the history and formal qualities of the form as a means of offering the groundwork for a transcultural artistic project: writing milongas in English.

Rebuilding Civil Society, Embedding Democratic Roots will examine the processes by which advocates in Zimbabwe are attempting to rebuild a grassroots democratic culture.

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.

Cherrie Kwok will focus on advancing her dissertation project about the relationship between anti-imperialism and a late nineteenth-century artistic and literary style named Decadence.

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.

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.

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.