Projects

The CGII grant will fund a traveling design studio, "ADG / Svalbard Studio", organized by the Arctic Design Group at UVA School of Architecture in Fall 2015.

In this project, I aim to provide a sustained ethnographic account of how students from China attending US universities approach a global citizenship initiative in rural Henan, China.

How have five decades of exile shaped the ideas of belonging, (up)rootedness, and religious tradition in the Tibetan diaspora?

Since the Fourteenth Dalai Lama escaped into India in 1959, three generations of Tibetans have cultivated land, established small businesses, and built administrative and monastic institutions in settlements spread over South Asia.

The conference entails a multi-day event jointly organized by the School of Law, Department of History, and Department of Politics.

This conference brings six distinguished scholars from France, Australia, the UK, and the US to grounds on September 18, 2015.

This project brings scholars and museum professionals together with Indigenous knowledge holders from Central Arnhem Land, Australia, to address issues pertaining to access and management of cultural objects and archival materials in museum collections.

Xinyan conducts ethnographic research on closely connected Christian communities in Charlottesville, Virginia and Shanghai,China, to explore the intersection of religiosity, spirituality, morality, and mentality shaped by Chinese and American cultures and specific localities.

This research examines the recent induction of women in a hybrid police-military commando-training unit in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Pakistan.

Disruptive Stimuli is a design research project that proposes an alternative management strategy for invasive plant species and challenges existing methods of classification.