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Posted on 12/05/2018
Rupa Valdez, Assistant Professor in the Division of Biomedical Informatics, in the Department of Public Health Sciences, andDavid Edmunds, Director of the Global Development Studies Major, are leading an ongoing international research program based in Westhaven (public housing in Charlottesville)…
Posted on 12/05/2018
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 Braithwaite(Professor of Public Policy)and her students of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2014 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Charles Laughlin (East Asian Studies)
The Southeastern Conference of the Association for Asian Studies is a major academic event in Asian Studies, which includes East Asia (including Tibet), South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia. Under the auspices of the…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Phoebe Crisman's(Associate Professor/ Director, Global Studies-Environment + Sustainability) Spaces of Diplomacy seminar will bring together diverse UVa faculty, students, and guests to investigate the role of spatiality in global diplomacy. Participants will explore how the physical design of an…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Devaki Ghose (Economics) I estimate the contribution of vertical linkage (the linkage between input suppliers and output producers) in the spatial agglomeration of industries by studying the location patterns of Information Technology (IT) firms and…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Jeana Ripple (Architecture) In the past five years, architecture and building technology industries have experienced a proliferation of "performance-aided design tools" - digital tools that are widely accessible for the first time across disciplines and in the…
Posted on 12/05/2018
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 spring of 2015 from April 17-19. The event will bring together an international group of leading designers (architects, landscape…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Linghui Zhang (Religious Studies) The research examines the presence of Tibetan Buddhist teachings and ideologies in the Xixia kingdom (1038‚àí1227, mostly overlapping with today's Ningxia, China) through the lens of the expanding influence of the…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Sophie Osotimehin (Economics) By how much could countries raise their income per capita by adopting regulations that enhance competition between firms? To answer this question we build a macroeconomic model that incorporates explicitly supply chains. We use this…
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…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Arlene Keeling (Nursing) Today the United States is faced with questions about immigration policies and the conflict of those policies with the moral imperative to care for people seeking refuge from war torn areas of the world. This project will document and…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Melvyn Leffler and William Hitchcock (History) The 2017 Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium, "U.S. Presidents Confront the Russians: A Century of Challenge, 1917-2017," will explore the contemporary relevance of the history of Russian-American relations. By…