Past Grant Recipients
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Mehr Afshan Farooqi(Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures) Beginning in 2006, with the Jaipur Li
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Patricia de Toledo Basile (Architecture) In the wake of mass urbanization and the subsequent urban inequality in the global c
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Spring Braccia-Beck(Architecture) This research addresses the current crisis of rising mental health issues among st
Speakers: Edith W.
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Kathleen A.
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Samuel Henry Plapinger (Politics) My dissertation investigates the topic of insurgent organizational effectiveness in civil
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Alison Posey (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) This summer, I will partake in a competitive foreign service internship at
Spring 2014 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Lise Dobrin (Anthropology) Jacob Sonin, a native speaker elder from an Arapesh village in Papua New Guinea, came to UVa for a ten-we
Fall 2014 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Vivian Thomson (Environmental Science) As part of an ongoing teaching and research collaboration on energy and climate issues between
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Whitney Bevill (French) Urgent questions on migrancy have brought mass movement, the Mediterranean, and North Africa togeth
This project will examine Christianity in the kingdom of Kongo in the early modern period. This question has resonance not only for African historians but also for scholars of the Atlantic world.
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Students
Christopher Maternowski (History) This dissertation traces the genesis and evolution of the idea that the Tristan da Cunha i
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Seok Hyun Gwon(Nursing) My dissertation investigates associations between geographic distribution (density and proxi
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Giancarlo Rolando(Anthropology) This research project will contribute to a better understanding of political identity and b
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Nicole Bonino (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) The project I am currently working on, concerning migration and artistic f
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Matthew Shi(Economics) China has one of the largest media markets in the world.
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Batul Abbas (Landscape Architecture) This is a research proposal to investigate the beekeeping practices of the Kars region
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Andrew Mondschein (Urban and Enviromental Planning, Architecture) This study investigates the role of nature in urban walking, exami
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Aynne Kokas (Media Studies) China, the country with the world's most Internet users, offers US media/technology firms important mark
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Jap-Nanak Makkar (English) My dissertation studies global novels in relation to digital media, arguing that the former use th
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Bremen Donovan (Anthropology) I am a PhD student in socio-cultural anthropology, focusing on policing, migration, and visua
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Murad Idris (Politics), Lawrie Balfour(Politics), Sandhya Shukla (English), and Jalane Schmidt (Religious Studies) This two-day confer
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Janet Horne (French and Politics) At this critical point in the development of French domestic politics and the European Union, the Fr
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Catalina Vallejo Pedraza (Sociology) Although transitional justice (TJ) has been used to mobilize substantial financial resou