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Posted on 03/02/2023
This semester, Profs. Cheryl Krueger and Ari Blatt, both in the Department of French, are co-facilitating a new, 1-credit reading seminar in which 17 undergraduate students are participating in the “Choix Goncourt USA,” an initiative sponsored by the French Cultural Services of the French Embassy.…
Posted on 02/09/2023
2023 GIG Recipient
Lise M. Dobrin (Anthropology)
This CGII GIG grant will support a residency at UVA this April by Dr. Andrew Moutu, former Director of
the Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery. Dr. Moutu, whose own research focus is the
New Guinea Sepik, holds a PhD in Anthropology…
Posted on 01/26/2023
Fall 2022 FGRU Recipient
Vanessa Guerra (School of Architecture)
Planners and design professionals need a better understanding of the development and management of informal urban practices in cities. This lack of understanding leads to poor planning and design interventions toward larger socio-…
Posted on 01/03/2023
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Ash Duhrkoop (Art History)
Lubumbashi is the mining capital of the DRC. Since the height of the colonial mining industry in the early 20th century, artists from the region have proposed alternative ways of engaging with the landscape and its mineral abundance, while…
Posted on 01/03/2023
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Dustin Thomas (Mediterranean Art & Archaeology)
This project will explore dynamics of intercultural interaction on the island of Cyprus during the first millennium BCE. It will create of digital 3D models of ancient Cypriot votive sculptures from the Fralin Museum…
Posted on 01/03/2023
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Cherrie Kwok (English)
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, and fulfilling her research agenda at The Decadence Research…
Posted on 12/13/2022
Fall 2023 GPOD Recipient
Olanrewaju Lasisi (Architectural History)
Oludamini Ogunnaike (Religious Studies)
Robin Garcia (Global Studies)
Ayodeji Ogunnaike (African American and African Studies)
The project "Performing the Past: An Exploration of Yoruba Agemo Rituals as Multimodal Historical …
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Felix Zuber (History)
My work focuses on the transnational peace movement during the last decade of the Cold War. CGII’s generous funding will help me access the Swarthmore Peace Collection, which will allow me to shed light on grassroots peace activism in 1980s America…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Su Yeone Jeon (Sociology)
My project reconceptualizes the meaning of development in the contemporary context by examining how regulation impacts the innovation-oriented activities of firms from late developer countries. While the regulatory environment has long been…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Theodore Teichman (Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture)
This research takes the form of a creative documentary film to describe and interpret how the pharmaceuticals have shaped the landscape specifically looking at the impending crisis of the rise of antibiotic…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Sergio Manuel Silva (Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese)
This project interrogates the complex interaction between Muisca religious practices and the Spanish colonial system of devotional imagery in seventeenth century Santafé (present-day Bogotá). Particularly, this…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
William Shivers (Constructed Environment, School of Architecture)
This project seeks to examine the potential of cultural and environmental repair in the face of the climate crisis in the Greater United States. Focusing on the Big Island of Hawai`i, this project will…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Lana Hye-Joe Park (Sociology)
In many cases of disaster, the why questions arise: Why did the disaster happen? Why did the victims die? Why should the bereaved suffer with their loss? This project explores how these why questions are dealt with differently by the state,…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Paola Monteros-Freeman (Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese)
“Visuality of (Un)seen and (Un)told Stories” Investigates the regional cinema in Argentina and its role as a tool for peripheral voices and spaces to be heard and seen focusing their narrative in marginalized…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Elizabeth Mirabal Llorens (Spanish, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese)
The preliminary hypothesis of my project is that nostalgia was deployed as a literary artifact by traveling subjects from the Caribbean in their intimate discourses. My objective is to…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Emma Lineberger (School of Architecture, Department of Architecture History)
My thesis research examines the early period of Italian colonization between 1870 and 1900 in today’s Eritrea and Somalia. This period is understudied as there was little to no governmental…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Yen-Yu Lin (Sociology)
Yen-Yu Lin’s dissertation project, Colors of the Empire: Visual Representations of Race and Gender in Colonial Taiwan, examines the racialized and gendered “rule of difference” through material culture with an empirical focus on Taiwan under Japanese…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Yanbin Li (Psychology)
The proposed study aims to better understand Chinese women's wishes to undertake transnational migration. The proposed study will also examine whether Chinese sexual minority and heterosexual women differ in their life goals (e.g. marriage,…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Molly Joyce (Music)
Left and Right is an interdisciplinary collaboration between music, dance, audio description, sign language, and projection to examine myths of the left side through disability perspectives. The piece is a collaboration between writer/audio describer…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Juliana Jiranek (Biology)
Environmental conditions affect multiple stages in the spread of infectious disease. As a result, it can be difficult to predict how environmental shifts brought on by climate change will alter disease dynamics and evolution. This project will…