Projects

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Considering the Source: Community Consultation Involving Digital Collections

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.
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Research by:
  • Margo Smith (Kluge-Ruhe Museum)
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Cultivation of the Faithful, Ethical, and Healthy Christian: A Comparative Study

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.
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Research by:
  • Xinyan Peng (Anthropology)
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Disruptive Stimuli

Disruptive Stimuli is a design research project that proposes an alternative management strategy for invasive plant species and challenges existing methods of classification.
2015 Grant Recipient
Research by:
  • Amanda Silvana Coen (Architecture)
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Geography of Exception

Geography of Exception attempts to provide a foundation with which to understand the complexities of Guantanamo Bay as a both a historical anomaly and a geopolitical grey zone.
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Research by:
  • Seth Salcedo (Architecture)
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Global Thriving Cities

The Global Thriving Cities Project is an extension of the Thriving Cities Project.
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Research by:
  • Tony Tian-Ren Lin (Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture)