Projects

Environmental conditions affect multiple stages in the spread of infectious disease.

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 colonial rule (1895-1945).

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.

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, among other socio-historical configurations.

I seek to reconstruct the links between the Catholic Church and Chile’s socialist revolution through a targeted study of the Vicuña Mackenna industrial zone located in southeastern Santiago.

This grant will support activities related to an ongoing research project in Tanzania, which explores the concepts of dignity and heritage in Maasai lifeworlds, in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and similar target-based policy initiatives.

I will research ideophones and interjections used in speech practices in Zapotec wedding rituals.

This research will evaluate how the Maré studio and its community engagement component promote formative elements considered to be key on student development.

This project seeks to establish an eco-cultural study of the Ecological Park of the Ceiba Tree of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

My project explores the ways Indigenous intellectuals in the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) of the 1970s articulated non-Western ways of being in their mobilization of Indigenous peasantry to social action.