Global Initiative Grants

The 'Tiny Packages with Big Impact: Workshop on Extracellular Vesicle (EVs) Isolation and Characterization' is born from the acknowledgment of a critical gap in hands-on EV research training.

Nicaraguan activist and previous Sandinista commander Dora María Téllez and Nicaraguan human rights activist Ana Margarita Vijil will be visiting the UVA campus.

Dr. Moutu will guide the work of UVA students enrolled in my Curating Culture course, contribute to the Fralin’s knowledge about their collection of Oceanic art, give lectures, and connect with professionals in anthropology and museums at UVA and other institutions in the region.

Rebuilding Civil Society, Embedding Democratic Roots will examine the processes by which advocates in Zimbabwe are attempting to rebuild a grassroots democratic culture.

Researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are working with the US Department of State to implement the 2nd Mekong Research Symposium (MRS’19) in Hanoi, Vietnam.

A three-day festival of documentaries from India.

These researchers, all linguistic anthropologists, pay attention both to major world languages like English and Chinese and to small, minoritized, and unwritten languages, just as they try to understand what is happening at micro- and macro-levels in all communities whose linguistic ideologies, practices, and institutions they study.

CGII 2025 spring GIG award John Nemec and Geeta Patel.

Spring 2025 CGII GIG Project Lorena Albert Ferrando