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Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Rachael Givens Johnson (History) The Center's funds enabled me to present a conference paper based on my developing dissertation. My project examines the encounters between Enlightenment and Baroque devotional imaginaries in the Spanish eighteenth-…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Sandip Sukhtankar (Economics), Isaac Mbiti (Batten), Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner (Politics) Over the past fifteen years, a new wave of empirical research in the field of global development has emerged that aims to examine the most pressing challenges facing…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Sandip Sukhtankar, Isaac Mbiti, Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner (Economics, Batten, Politics) Over the past fifteen years, a new wave of empirical research in the field of global development has emerged that aims to examine the most pressing challenges facing…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Faculty
James Savage (Politics) This project analyzes how the European Union and its twenty-eight member states financed and budgeted for the expenses associated with the migration and refugee crises. Between 2015 and 2017 some 2.6 million migrants and refugees entered…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Brittany Sutherland(Biology) Biologists often find studying widespread species challenging for many reasons, not least of which is the necessity to navigate different governments, languages, and cultures when species cross international borders. This…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Seth Salcedo (Architecture) Geography of Exception attempts to provide a foundation with which to understand the complexities of Guantanamo Bay as a both a historical anomaly and a geopolitical grey zone all in an effort to project an architectural…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Deborah Lawrence, Professor of Environmental Science, will include an undergraduate student in an ongoing research project between UVa and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) to investigate how land use change affects carbon storage in Indonesian peatlands. Large scale changes in…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Matthew Burtner (Music) The Global Ecoacoustics Project is a collaborative global initiative between the University of Virginia, and institutions in Australia, Colorado and Alaska. A cohort of universities and museums have joined together to imagine a year-long…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Corinne Field (Women, Gender, and Sexuality)
The Global History of Black Girlhood Conference will enable an interdisciplinary network of scholars to frame the emerging field of black girl history. The project grows out of the History of Black Girlhood Network…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Anne GarlandMahler (Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese) TheSymposium and Workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary and multinational group of scholars in March 2019 togenerate dialogue on the impact of contemporary capitalist globalization on diverse…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Tony Tian-Ren Lin (Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) The Global Thriving Cities Project is an extension of theThriving Cities Project. It seeks to employ a cultural model for understand urban ecosystems through six endowments that form the building…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Mehr Afshan Farooqi(Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures) Beginning in 2006, with the Jaipur Literature Festival, there has been an urgency to host literature festivals in all the major cities of India and Pakistan. Historically, literary-…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Patricia de Toledo Basile (Architecture) In the wake of mass urbanization and the subsequent urban inequality in the global city of S√£o Paulo, Brazil, people residing in self-produced informal settlements (favelas) have created forms of self-governance…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient Faculty Leena Cho and Matthew Jull (Architecture) The CGII grant will fund a traveling design studio, "ADG / Svalbard Studio", organized by the Arctic Design Group at UVA School of Architecture in Fall 2015. The studio will take a group of 12 students to Longyearbyen, Ny…
Posted on 12/05/2018
ADG/Svalbard Studio is a pilot travelling studio offered by the Arctic Design Group, led by professors Matthew Jull (Architecture) and Leena Cho (Architecture), and is the third in a sequence of studios at UVa focused on the design of cities and landscapes in the arctic. A key goal is to visit and…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Bremen Donovan (Anthropology)
My dissertation is about how body-worn recording technologies in policing are affecting the production, admissibility, and evaluation of evidentiary claims. With CGII support, I will conduct a baseline study this summer…
Posted on 12/05/2018
This project explores the understudied Janowska concentration camp and the Holocaust in Lviv, Ukraine. With the support of the FGRU grant, two students will work as research assistants with Waitman Wade Beorn. They will conduct archival research in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Elena Grissom (Politics) As part of the field research for my master's thesis in Comparative Politics, I will be traveling to Israel this summer with a fellowship from Hebrew University. My research involves tracing the formation of cross-group…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Claire Constance (Public Health Sciences) I will be working with the International Organization of Migration (IOM) in Geneva, Switzerland doing a comparative assessment of how migrant health policy in EU countries has effected migrant health outcomes…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Mila Versteeg (Law), Kevin L. Cope (Law),James Loeffler(History),Michael J. Smith (Politics), David Leblang (Politics) The conference entails a multi-day event jointly organized by the School of Law, Department of History, and Department of Politics. The event…