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Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Mark Schwartz (Politics) Housing is a central economic ($33 trillion in US housing wealth) and social (how do I make my mortgage?) issue, yet the politics of housing are understudied. This project asks what drove a 30-year shift in rich country housing from a…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Brantly Womack (Politics) The Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, the research and training arm of Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has proposed translating Brantly Womack's book, Asymmetry and International Relationships into Vietnamese. The book was…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Alison J. Murray Levine (French) Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako will be at UVA for an artist residency from April 9-13, 2015. The program's centerpiece is a free public screening and discussion with the filmmaker around his most recent film, "Timbuktu". This event will be held at the…
Posted on 12/05/2018
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 to examine the relationship between global and area studies scholarship. "Latin American Studies: Past, Present, Future" will…
Posted on 12/05/2018
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 Initiative. The ETP students will ask, how do the catadores, Brazil's waste collectors and recyclers, contribute to…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Susan Palazzo(Anthropology) My dissertation research seeks to understand the process of changing identities in the interior of Sardinia during the Middle and Late Bronze Age (c. 1600-850 BCE) by examining changes in foodways over time. I will examine…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Anthony Averbeck (Architecture) This research examines the future of rural space in a world increasingly characterized by mass migration to megacities. The contemporary focus on urbanism perpetuates the traditional urban/rural divide and dismisses the…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, Assistant Professor of Politics, and Deena Hurwitz, Professor of Law, developed the opportunity for several undergraduates to serve as research assistants in a project related to their broad initiative to evaluate the compatibility of women's rights with both Islamic…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Lorena Ochoa Campo (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)
In June, I will participate in a seminar with feminist scholar Luce Irigaray at the University of Warwick, UK. This seminar gathers researchers from varied disciplines from around the world and is a…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2014 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Peter Debaere (Business) Leading up to World Water Day on the 22nd of March, UVA's 2nd Annual World Water Week will feature a series of events on and around Grounds, ranging from lectures by notable speakers to research meetings to a local river clean-up. Along…
Posted on 12/05/2018
YEDEA is an eight-week service-learning project in Koforidua, Ghana, created by UVa School of Medicine student and program director Emmanuel Larbi Abebrese. YEDEA develops innovative solutions for issues facing Ghanaian communities' pursuit of education and healthcare, using Design Thinking. In the…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Kelly Ritter (Architecture) I will serve as chair and participant on "Material Matters: (Re)envisioning "China" with the practice of art and architecture," a panel focused on architectural history at the 2018 Association of Asian Studies in Asia…
Posted on 12/05/2018
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). Delok is a Tibetan word that literally means "passed on and returned," which generally refers to someone who has undergone a…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Jinchao Zhao (Art and Architectural History) By connecting known Chinesest≈´pasdated before the seventh century CE to historical records and Buddhist scriptures translated in Chinese, my dissertation examines the dissemination and reception of the…
Posted on 12/05/2018
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 southwest Uganda navigate the quest for healing. While domestic and international health interventions emphasize biological,…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Samuel Plapinger(Politics) My dissertation investigates the dynamics of armed group rivalries in multiparty civil wars. Motivated by the rapid rise of ISIS over its rivals in the Syrian Civil War, I ask how particular armed groups fighting on the same…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Nora Benedict(Spanish/Italian/Portuguese) My dissertation explores the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, an Argentinean poet, essayist, and short story writer, from the vantage point of analytical bibliography. Within one of my chapters, I hope to look to…
Posted on 12/05/2018
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 of developing this resource have yet to be studied. Professor Andres Clarens (UVa Department of Civil and Environmental…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Sheena Singh (Anthropology) Building on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park in the Saurashtra peninsula of Gujarat, India, this project explores the politics and peculiarities of coexistence between…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Shannon Ruhl (Architecture) As precedents to the now abandoned coal camps of Appalachia, massive incorporated municipalities dedicated to resource extraction in India and China today, and growing tech communities in Silicon Valley; the model company town…