Projects

Examining this critical point in the development of French domestic politics and the European Union.

Although transitional justice (TJ) has been used to mobilize substantial financial resources with the aim of compensating victims of civil conflict, little is known about how countries come to drastically different reparation sums.

In the past five years, architecture and building technology industries have experienced a proliferation of "performance-aided design tools."

The research examines the presence of Tibetan Buddhist teachings and ideologies in the Xixia kingdom.

Building on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park in the Saurashtra peninsula of Gujarat, India, this project explores the politics and peculiarities of coexistence between pastoralists and lions.

As precedents to the now abandoned coal camps of Appalachia, massive incorporated municipalities dedicated to resource extraction in India and China today, and growing tech communities in Silicon Valley.

Just how pervasive among teachers, students, and communities are state-supplied narratives of what constitutes legitimate knowledge and academic achievement?

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?