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Posted on 04/27/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Jessica Montgomery (Economics) While economists agree that property rights are important for economic growth, it is still unclear which component of property rights matters the most for development and how much formalizing property rights matters in contexts where…
Posted on 04/25/2023
Spring 2023 FGRU Grant Recipient Kathryn Quissell (Medicine) Moral values, some of the most deeply held beliefs an individual or a culture can hold, are particularly difficult to change. In this study, we seek to understand the relationship between advocacy for and against abortion and policy…
Posted on 04/25/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Beatriz Silva da Costa (Politics) Brazil is known for bid rigging, that is a form of collusion, involving companies that should be genuinely competing to win a contract secretly conspiring to raise prices or lower the quality of offered goods or services during a bidding…
Posted on 04/25/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Audrius Rickus (History) “Making France Global, 1974-83” explores France’s attempt to remake itself from a great into a global power. In the 1970s, Paris jettisoned its past embrace of imperial modes of power and set  up innovative arrangements to create and control…
Posted on 04/24/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Josué Godoy (History) My project explores the ways Indigenous and Afro-Andean activists worked within, or were in conflict with, revolutionary class-based organizations in the Northern Andean region encompassing the countries of Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador during the…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Nadav Zadokya (History) “For the Profit of Our Subjects:” The Jews of Mantua and the Counter-Reformation State, 1550-1650 details the close relationship between the Jews of Mantua and the ruling Gonzaga dynasty. Using Jews’ letters to the court, I argue that the Jews of…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Oriane Guiziou-Lamour (French) This project, at the intersection between literature, history, sociology, gender, and queer studies, based in archival works in European libraries, unearths texts and discourses on gender and sexuality in France at the turn of the 19th …
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Daniel Wright (Architecture) Deep and thick sections of landscape representation make materials, ecology, and cultural histories visible. But the visible gives primacy to sight, so our sensory entanglements with place remain hidden. As part of participation in the Wright…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Brittany White (History) In 1923, 400,000 Muslims living in Greece and 1.2 million Greek Orthodox Christians living in Turkey were forcibly relocated in what we now call the Greek-Turkish population exchange. This event is not understudied, but the experiences of the…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient James Barnes (Architecture) I will conduct travel research to Denmark and Sweden to study the design and management of nature-based learning environments in K-12 schools for comparison with U.S. approaches. Outdoor educational models such as Forest Schools, founded in…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Aaron Thompson (Slavic Languages & Literatures) Aaron’s project contributes to his dissertation, A Revolutionary Gospel, which examines how Russian writers transformed their Christian heritage into a new socialist religion while exiled in the US and Italy between…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Ayan Sharma (History) How did British colonial efforts to expand “commodity frontiers” come to shape environmental changes on one hand and contestations over belonging, citizenship and territory on the other in South Asia? My Ph.D. project proposes to address this…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Avantika Prabhakar (Economics) I study the interaction of state capacity and an underexplored religious institution – religious cults that center around one figure of authority. I will investigate how the emergence of these cults impact state provision of public services…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Charlotte Pitts (Architecture) This funding will support my Masters of Architecture graduate thesis project, which will examine the possible spatial and conceptual future for post-mining landscapes in the intermountain American West. In particular, I will advance a multi…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Olivia Paschal (History) Three major corporations came out of the Arkansas Ozarks in the mid-twentieth century: Walmart, Tyson Foods, and J.B. Hunt. I am interested in the intertwined development of these three companies and the larger industries and economies they…
Posted on 04/18/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Gina Lee (Architecture) Landscapes and memory have a symbiotic relationship. Landscape is a work of the mind, yet simultaneously shapes and influences human thinking and consciousness. The idea of landscape is projected onto physical form, constructed, and continually…
Posted on 04/17/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Lucas Martinez (English) Born in the port cities of the Rio de la Plata in the late 19th century from the gatherings of immigrants and criollos, the milonga constitutes a unique lyric, music, and dance form. Milongas have become an important part of South American…
Posted on 04/17/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Sophie Maffie (Architecture) As a Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate at the University of Virginia, Sophie Maffie will utilize this research for her Master’s Thesis. Fibers of Resilience will examine the relationship between indigenous horticultural traditions…
Posted on 04/17/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Julia MacNelly (Architecture) Using material collection and hybrid drawings, this project explores how bodies function within different types of building processes – from adobe construction, to compressed earth, to the monolithic concrete developments that are ubiquitous…
Posted on 04/17/2023
Spring 2023 GGR Recipient Aik Sai Goh (Religious Studies) The Tsz Shan Monastery Buddhist Art Museum in Hong Kong, which opened in 2019, is one of the world’s largest Buddhist mega-projects with a state-of-the-art museum underneath a colossal Guanyin statue. The proliferation of Buddhist museums…