Humanities
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Dannah Dennis(Anthropology) I'm currently conducting ethnographic research in Kathmandu for my dissertation in Anthropology
In 1620, Manuel Gayt√°n de Torres left Jerez de la Frontera to survey Venezuelan copper mines.
This project will examine the production, distribution, and consumption of Brazilian television fiction since 2011, when then President Dilma Rousseff signed into law Lei 12.485/11.
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Nicole Bonino (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese) My dissertation project is focused on the Italian migration to Argentina.
Alison Posey, PhD Candidate (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Judith Shatin (Music) Composer Kiki Keren-Huss will be in residence at the University of Virgini's McIntire Department of Music for th
Joanne Britland, PhD Candidate (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese)
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Jennifer Bair (Sociology), Richard Handler (Anthropology), and Yingyao Wang (Sociology)
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Linghui Zhang (Religious Studies) The research examines the presence of Tibetan Buddhist teachings and ideologies in the Xi
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient Graduate Student Kamaoji (Religious Studies) This dissertation is a study of the biographies of female revenants or delok (Tibetan, 'das log).
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Jinchao Zhao (Art and Architectural History) By connecting known Chinesest≈´pasdated before the seventh century CE t
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Nora Benedict(Spanish/Italian/Portuguese) My dissertation explores the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, an Argentinean poet,
Frederick H. Damon, Professor (Anthropology) and Cong (Ellen) Zhang, Associate Professor (History)
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Ekaterina Dianina (Slavic Languages and Literatures) This monograph-length study explores the tragic dispersal of imperial art collect
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
David Germano (Religious Studies) and Charles Laughlin (East Asian Literature and Culture)
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Holly Runde (French) My dissertation focuses on an empathetic reading of narratives about abortion by French women writers
Michelle Walsh, PhD Candidate (Religious Studies)
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Mehr Farooqi and Jane Mikkelson (Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures) There are oceans of writing in Urdu and
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Melvyn Leffler and William Hitchcock (History) The 2017 Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium, "U.S.
Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, Associate Professor (Aegean and Near Eastern Archaeology)
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Abeer Saha (History) Our current crisis of climate change was preceded by the crisis of stratospheric ozone depletion and the
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Peter Ochs (Religious Studies) A UVA research committee will work Summer and Fall 2015 to initiate the organization and planning of
Alison J. Murray Levine (French) Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako will be at UVA for an artist residency from April 9-13, 2015.
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Allison Bigelow (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) On 13-14 October, 2016, the Program in Latin American Studies will host a symposium
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Lorena Ochoa Campo (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)