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)