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Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Daniel Doncel (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) The project takes the Spanish Civil War as a site of confluence between Spain’s internal history, its imperial past in Latin America and Africa, Black international anti-imperialism, and Cuban communism…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Hao Chen (History) This project studies the domestic and international roots of the ethnopolitical transformation in Yanbian, the Korean autonomous region along the Chinese-North Korean border, as a unique case of China’s modern territoriality change…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Dijia Chen (Architecture) This project investigates the construct of contemporary Chinese architecture in exhibitionary representations under hegemonic transnational cultural exchange by looking into a series of German exhibitions on contemporary…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Cassidy Brown (Architecture) The architectural research discusses disability politics and its relationship to contemporary spatial development. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated in 2021 that over 1 billion people live with some sort of…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient M. Tayyab Safdar (Politics) and Dorothy C. Wong (Art) China continues to consolidate its emerging position as a global power. The Belt & Road Initiative remains a significant part of the country’s development strategy and is part of the 14th Five-Year Plan. There…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 GPOD Grant Recipient Hudson Golino (Psychology) and Mariana Teles (Psychology) Manipulation of information or fabrication of false and incorrect information shared via social media and online platforms has severe societal consequences, from distrust in democratic institutions and low…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Piers Gelly (English) 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. Despite…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Mark Sicoli (Anthropology) and Armik Mirzayan (Anthropology) CGII funds support participation by Tribal citizens in the Siouan-Caddoan Languages Conference hosted at Brooks Hall May 27–29, 2022. The conference gathers linguists and community members around questions of…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient David Germano (Religious Studies) and Charles Laughlin (East Asian Literature and Culture) This symposium focuses on exploring and celebrating the recent emergence of Tibetan female writers in their Himalayan homelands and in the broader global diaspora. Prominent…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Anastasia Dakouri-Hild (Art) The project explores the ancient and contemporary landscape of Aphidna near Athens, Greece, combining historical analysis with the systematic collection of surface archaeological finds (survey) and ethnography, augmenting the humanistic…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Giulio Celotto (Classics), Francesca Calamita (Spanish, Italian & Portuguese), and Giulia Paoletti (Art) “The Siren Project” aims at reflecting on the representation and the role of women’s voice in literature and the visual arts through time and geographies. In…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient Jack W. Chen (East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures), Chad Wellmon (Germanic Languages and Literatures), and Daniel T. Willingham (Psychology) Reading is one of the foundational practices at the heart of human culture. We read for the sake of knowledge and…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Fall 2021 GPOD Grant Recipient Sally E. Pusede (Environmental Sciences) This project will support the establishment of an air quality network across Senegal measuring two important pollutants, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2). This network will provide unprecedented…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Fall 2021 GPOD Grant Recipient Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner (Politics & Global Studies), David Nemer (Media Studies), Siva Vaidhyanathan (Media Studies), and Sayan Banerjee (Deliberative Media Lab) This interdisciplinary and collaborative research program is dedicated to the study of digital…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Michelle Walsh (Religious Studies) This ethnographic research investigates the contexts associated with Buddhist practices and how people incorporate traditional understandings of religious practices with innovative approaches to contemporary meditation…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Lauren Van Nest (Art) The project examines portraits of the Ottonian rulers Henry II and Kunigunde (r. 1002-1024) featured in manuscripts, altar frontals, and other liturgical implements within their early-eleventh-century cathedral treasury contexts.…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Jieun Sung (Education) This in-depth qualitative study examines Korean-American immigrant families’ processes of meaning-making and action in relation to the formal education of children, and the role of a Korean immigrant church community network –…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Robert Sanchis Álvarez (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) Archival investigation at Barcelona’s Historical Archive and the General Protocols Archive from 16th of May to 14th June, 2022, would help me tracing the cultural and economic networks that…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Ilma Qureshi (Religious Studies) My research focuses of Sufism, which has conceptualized as ‘heterodox’ or ‘unorthodox’ by certain Muslim reformers and Orientalist scholars. My research casts a probing and critical lens on Islamic mysticism by studying…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Emily Mellen (Music) Fascist radio station Radio Bari broadcasted propaganda in Arabic from Italy towards the Middle East and North Africa from 1934-1943. My project delves into the radio station’s use of music as propaganda, arguing that the music was…