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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…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Hanna Makowski (Biology) Colonization of new habitats is a well-documented response to global climate change. A plants ability to self-reproduce is predicted to provide an advantage in colonization of new habitats. However, many plant species have…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Yen-Yu Lin (Sociology) “Colorism” — the institutionalized hierarchy which privileges white or light skin color — appears to have been increasingly globalized in recent years. However, how does global colorism operate in societies where people are all…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Erin Jordan (Anthropology) My ethnographic research explores multigenerational experiences with precarity and aspiration in the Kahe Ward of northern Tanzania. As subsistence farmers in an unforgiving economic and ecological place, interlocutors in…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Andrew David Frankel (Education) The CGII grant will support the final stage of my dissertation research, which entails examines how Tibetan communities on the margins of the Sinosphere use supplemental education programs to navigate Chinese hegemony…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Catherine Doucette (Art and Architectural History)
This PhD dissertation in Art & Architectural History explores the decorative arts and material culture of colonial Jamaica, spanning from the late seventeenth century to the post-emancipation…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
María del Rosario Cornejo (Art and Architectural History) My dissertation focuses on the Castilian translation of the Lapidario (or Lapidary), a manuscript commissioned by King Alfonso the Wise (1221-1284), identifying the origin, medicinal, and magical…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Ren Capucao (Nursing) As Filipino nurses remain an elusive subject of history, their present-day hypervisibility casts a ghostly shadow haunting the legacy of United States imperialism. My project, therefore, examines the historical formation of the…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
J. Charles Bradley (Education) It is estimated that 35 million displaced people are children, with 340,000 children born into displacement every year. In response, a body of early childhood and humanitarian experts have coalesced to form the professional…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Abigail Bradford (Art) Performance spaces are critical to understanding how spectators experience music. In recent scholarship there has been an interest in reanimating ancient Greek music by reintroducing live musical performances back into ancient…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
H. Nazli Azergun (Anthropology) This ethnographic project investigates the worldbuilding practices of sustainable finance professionals in Germany and the United States vis-à-vis their legal and occupational constraints. Sustainable finance has…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Charlotte Rogers (Spanish)
In a time of rising sea levels and global climate change, why do the arts matter after a hurricane? “Coasts in Crisis: A Digital Exhibit of Art after Hurricanes” seeks to answer that question through the creation of a freely accessible curated…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Steve Parks (English), Nelson Camilo Sánchez León (Law), T. Kenny Fountain (English), Hannes Seibert, (Peace Appeal Foundation), and Myo Yan Naung Thein, Visiting Researcher/Member, Democratic Futures Working Group, UVA Democracy Initiative
The Burmese Democratic Futures…
Posted on 05/23/2022
Fall 2021 Grant Recipient
Shiqiao Li and Esther Lorenz (Architecture)
This project launches the Asian Urbanism Collaborative (AUC) as a global platform to advance the research and teaching in Asian urbanization. The goal of AUC is to map more accurately the cultural forces that have led to Asia’s…