Center Grants

This short film will explore issues of press freedom, censorship, and satire in the Republic of Guinea.

CGII funding is contributing to a project addressing Swahili women’s roles from 600-1600 CE on the East African coast in the realms of agricultural production, cuisine, cultural transmission, craft production, and leadership.

My research examines how since Russia invaded Ukraine the European Union has budgeted and provided critical financial support from both the supranational EU level and the EU’s twenty-seven member states to aid President Zelensky and the Ukrainians.

Recent decades have seen a global shift away from the traditional self-regulation of the professions toward hybrid forms of regulation in which professions, the state, and market actors all play significant roles.

My research project explores the artistic and cultural manifestations in which contemporary Muslim women define their body space to defy internal, traditional restrictions and external, orientalist Western gazes.

We are supporting Maya-led teams in Yucatán and Guatemala to launch digital resources for long-term language revindication in their communities.

Our workshop “The Visible Century” will convene an international roster of scholars to assess the legacy and ongoing significance of this groundbreaking work.

This is a collaboration with the Athar Lina Initiate to conduct research and create co- design strategies for socially and contextually aware modes of turning the water that is inundating historic buildings into a resource for improving the social and built environments of the Al-Khalifa neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt.

Less Economically Developed Countries (LEDCs) are struggling to meet the demand for affordable housing in their growing cities.

Need for access to clean water is one of the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century and a critical challenge for South Africa.