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Posted on 12/05/2018
This project, led byEsther Lorenz(Assistant Professor, Architecture), willconduct design research with a strong empirical component by engaging students in a cinematic experience of the city of Hong Kong through the walking body, by capturing this experience, and by deducting and experimenting with…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Seok Hyun Gwon(Nursing) My dissertation investigates associations between geographic distribution (density and proximity) of licensed tobacco retailers (LTRs) and adolescent smoking in Seoul, South Korea. Most adult smokers initiate smoking during…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Giancarlo Rolando(Anthropology) This research project will contribute to a better understanding of political identity and belonging among indigenous peoples of Amazonia. Given their current socio-political context as a transnational indigenous people,…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Nenette Arroyo (Art) My dissertation investigates the visual and material culture of the California missions in order to understand the interplay of form and practice in bringing about religious conversion within a colonial context. By examining…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Nicole Bonino (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) The project I am currently working on, concerning migration and artistic frontiers in Argentina, is conceived to be the first step of my final dissertation "Making Art in Migration: Global…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Johnathan Favini (Anthropology) My research centers on a nascent collaboration between conservationists and Jamaican Maroons. While conservationists wish to protect a "pristine nature" that is apart from humanity, Maroons care for the same spaces…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Matthew Shi(Economics) China has one of the largest media markets in the world. But most media providers in China - including all television stations and cable companies - are stated-owned. This raises questions about efficiency of such systems. We…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Batul Abbas (Landscape Architecture) This is a research proposal to investigate the beekeeping practices of the Kars region of Turkey. The northeastern Anatolian region where Kars is located is a leading global honey producer, a place of strong women's…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Andrew Mondschein (Urban and Enviromental Planning, Architecture) This study investigates the role of nature in urban walking, examining this relationship across cities in India and the United States. A cognitive mapping survey will capture how urban walkers…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Anastasia Dakouri-Hild (Art/Archaeology) The question of core vs periphery has been intensely debated in the social sciences and the humanities since the 1970s, following the publication of Wallerstein's (1974) seminal study on World Systems--a cornerstone of…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Aynne Kokas (Media Studies) China, the country with the world's most Internet users, offers US media/technology firms important market opportunities. Yet control of content via Chin's major media regulator, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Jap-Nanak Makkar (English) My dissertation studies global novels in relation to digital media, arguing that the former use the innovative techniques of the latter to imagine alternatives to liberal society and neo-liberalizing world markets. In one…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Ran Zhao (East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) Xu Xiake (1587-1641) was a Chinese geographer and travel writer of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). He traveled throughout China for over 30 years, leaving detailed and extensive records of his travels. Xu…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Bremen Donovan (Anthropology) I am a PhD student in socio-cultural anthropology, focusing on policing, migration, and visual/sensory methods. My doctoral research broadly addresses how policing is impacting West African youth in Paris and surrounding…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Murad Idris (Politics), Lawrie Balfour(Politics), Sandhya Shukla (English), and Jalane Schmidt (Religious Studies) This two-day conference brings together established and emerging scholars of colonialism, settler-colonialism, and race for a discussion of law,…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Zhe Dong (Architecture) For my project, I will conduct a field survey on the monuments dedicated to Mao Zedong in his birthplace, Shaoshan, China. I will spend two days in Shaoshan doing an observational study of how people use and interpret Mao's…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Janet Horne (French and Politics) At this critical point in the development of French domestic politics and the European Union, the French and Politics Departments invite Prof. Vincent Michelot (Sciences-Po, Lyon) as a Visiting Professor for the spring semester…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Catalina Vallejo Pedraza (Sociology) Although transitional justice (TJ) has been used to mobilize substantial financial resources with the aim of compensating victims of civil conflict, little is known about how countries come to drastically different…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Dannah Dennis(Anthropology) I'm currently conducting ethnographic research in Kathmandu for my dissertation in Anthropology. My topics of interest revolve around Nepal's ongoing efforts to re-define itself as a nation in the process of re-writing its…
Posted on 12/05/2018
In 1620, Manuel Gayt√°n de Torres left Jerez de la Frontera to survey Venezuelan copper mines. Copper was central to imperial Spain's currency policies, military campaigns against the Dutch, and trade relationships in West Africa, but it was in short supply. Gayt√°n de Torres projected his vision…