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Posted on 06/15/2021
Summer 2020 Grant Recipient
Matthew Burtner (Music) and Willis Jenkins (Religious Studies)
Coastal Futures Conservatory integrates arts and humanities into UVa’s Long-Term Ecological Research
(LTER) at the Virginia Coast Reserve (VCR). Having received international attention for its unique…
Posted on 06/15/2021
Summer 2020 Grant Recipient
Marcel Durieux (Medicine)
Surgical outcomes in low/middle income countries (LMIC) are much worse than those in high income countries, causing millions of preventable deaths per year. Identification of at-risk patients and efficient allocation of human resources require…
Posted on 06/15/2021
Fall 2020 COVID Fund Recipient
Miguel Angel Valladares Llata (Library)
This is a library initiative that aims to connect directly with all UVa members who research the Greater Caribbean Region and Indigenous Studies in the Americas with the purpose of identifying, targeting, acquiring and…
Posted on 06/15/2021
Fall 2020 COVID Fund Recipient
George Mentore (Anthropology)
Arising specifically because of the innovative responses to the restrictions on higher education brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, this research will focus on the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America's XIII…
Posted on 09/09/2020
CGII is happy to announce that we will be accepting grant proposals this spring. Our usual suite of grants has been adjusted to emphasize a restart of research activities and to play up novel approaches. We are still subject to the university’s broad COVID-19 constraints (which may change). For…
Posted on 03/18/2020
Colleagues:
This is an update on how UVa’s Covid-19 response will affect CGII applicants and awardees.
All CGII-funded research is bound by the principles put forth by the Provost Magill on March 18, 2020, available here. Please familiarize yourself with them.
Applicants. During this time of…
Posted on 01/30/2020
Fall 2018 Grant Recipient
Sharon Tsai-hsuan Ku (Engineering & Society) and Brantly Womack (Politics)
This project will create an interdisciplinary and international research-education working group constituted by educators from universities, industry and NGO in US and China, to develop a…
Posted on 12/17/2019
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Natasha Heller (Religious Studies)
This institute seeks to reimagine the critical vocabulary of religious studies through the use of Chinese concepts, as a way of decentering and decolonizing the study of religion. Through a multifaceted exploration of seminal Chinese…
Posted on 12/04/2019
Tho Nguyen (Computer Science)
Researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are working with the US Department of State to implement the 2nd Mekong Research Symposium (MRS’19) in Hanoi, Vietnam in December, 2019. Leveraging this opportunity, the UVa team will host a…
Posted on 12/04/2019
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Jessica Marroquín (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)
I will travel to Tepotzotlán to visit colonial and baroque art collections that portray skeletal representations of death housed at the Museo Nacional del Virreinato in Mexico. The museum contains a…
Posted on 12/02/2019
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Caroline Whitcomb (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese)
How can we examine poetry and production from an environmental perspective? The funds granted from the CGII will be used to travel to Puerto Rico to visit the workshop of and conduct an interview with…
Posted on 12/02/2019
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Vivien Chang (History)
My dissertation explores the making of the New International Economic Order (NIEO)—and the demands for economic sovereignty and a “right to development” it embodied—from the perspective(s) of sub-Saharan Africa. Plagued…
Posted on 11/25/2019
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Matthew Slaats (Architecture - Urban Planning)
Concentrated on practices that envision new economic modalities in the global south, this project centers on researching the emergence of solidarity economies in Australia and at the same time building an…
Posted on 11/19/2019
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Nicole Bonino (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)
The project “Migration and Ecocriticism in Latin American Literature” investigates the ways in which Latin American authors represent the effects of climate changes, the territorial modifications caused by…
Posted on 11/19/2019
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Matthew Frakes (History)
My dissertation project examines the emergence of the new global order that replaced the Cold War world. It investigates the debates over what role the United States and its European allies should play in shaping that order and…
Posted on 11/19/2019
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Mona Kasra (Art) and Luke Dahl (Music & Electrical and Computer Engineering)
This project explores how new recording technologies (immersive video, spatial audio, and motion capture) can be used to document, preserve, and transmit embodied cultural practices of…
Posted on 11/14/2019
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
David Germano (Religious Studies)
Overcoming historical discrimination and contemporary disadvantages, a powerful blossoming of writings by Tibetan women has emerged over the past few decades. These works include deep reflections on their own Tibetan cultural heritage…
Posted on 11/13/2019
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Jessica Ann Levy (History)
My book project, Black Power, Inc.: Corporate America, Race, and Empowerment Politics in the U.S. and Africa (University of Pennsylvania Press, under contract), analyzes the financial, ideological, and political investments made by a cohort of…
Posted on 11/13/2019
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Meltem Yucel (Psychology)
People differ on how fairly they think the resources are distributed. This difference often contributes to polarization of the public sphere and makes it harder to solve issues pertaining to inequality. Those who see the harm…
Posted on 11/13/2019
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Jennifer Bair (Sociology), Richard Handler (Anthropology), and Yingyao Wang (Sociology)
Talks on the Economy, Market, Politics and Organizations (TEMPO) is an interdisciplinary workshop of faculty and graduate students devoted to the development of empirical work…