Past Grant Recipients
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Dannah Dennis(Anthropology) I'm currently conducting ethnographic research in Kathmandu for my dissertation in Anthropology
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 2015 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Nancy Takahashi (Architecture) Focusing on the complex interwoven forces of sea level rise and rapid urbanization impacting coastal
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
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Bremen Donovan (Anthropology) I am a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology (socio-cultural subfield) with a formal
Rupa Valdez, Assistant Professor in the Division of Biomedical Informatics, in the Department of Public Health Sciences, andDavid Edmunds, Director of the Global D
Quantitative household survey data will be triangulated with new anthropological qualitative research in a mixed-methods study of poverty/wealth, health, and traditional healers.Jeanine Bra
Fall 2014 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Charles Laughlin (East Asian Studies)
Phoebe Crisman's(Associate Professor/ Director, Global Studies-Environment + Sustainability) Spaces of Diplomacy seminar will bring together diverse UVa faculty, students, and gues
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Jeana Ripple (Architecture) In the past five years, architecture and building technology industries have experienced a proliferation
Fall 2014 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Matthew Jull and Leena Cho (Architecture) The CGII grant will fund an international design symposium, ARCTIC STATES, at UVA in the spr
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Linghui Zhang (Religious Studies) The research examines the presence of Tibetan Buddhist teachings and ideologies in the Xi
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Anna Eisenstein (Anthropology) My PhD research investigates the construction of trust as a way of understanding how people in
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Samuel Plapinger(Politics) My dissertation investigates the dynamics of armed group rivalries in multiparty civil wars.
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Nora Benedict(Spanish/Italian/Portuguese) My dissertation explores the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, an Argentinean poet,
Fall 2014 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Andres Clarens (Engineering) Argentina has the second largest shale gas reserve in the world and the environmental costs and benefits
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Sheena Singh (Anthropology) Building on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park in
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Shannon Ruhl (Architecture) As precedents to the now abandoned coal camps of Appalachia, massive incorporated municipalities
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Arlene Keeling (Nursing) Today the United States is faced with questions about immigration policies and the conflict of those polici
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Ekaterina Dianina (Slavic Languages and Literatures) This monograph-length study explores the tragic dispersal of imperial art collect
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Andrew Frankel (Curry School) Just how pervasive among teachers, students, and communities are state-supplied narratives of
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
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
ProfessorVivian Thomsonand University of S√£o Paulo (USP) faculty colleagues will work with two Environmental Thought and Practice majors and selected USP students on a Waste Initi
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Susan Palazzo(Anthropology) My dissertation research seeks to understand the process of changing identities in the interior