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Posted on 12/05/2018
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Ekaterina Dianina (Slavic Languages and Literatures) This monograph-length study explores the tragic dispersal of imperial art collections during the early Soviet period through emigration, neglect, and sale and problematizes contemporary efforts in post-Soviet…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Andrew Frankel (Curry: Education Leadership, Policy, and Foundations) This project explores the implications of the Education Revolution - i.e. global spread of mass formal education and the meanings it creates - among an ethnic group whose values and…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Holly Runde (French) My dissertation focuses on an empathetic reading of narratives about abortion by French women writers and filmmakers. The CGII grant will facilitate a summer stay in Paris during which I will complete archival research in the…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
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Mehr Farooqi and Jane Mikkelson (Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures) There are oceans of writing in Urdu and Persian that have not been translated into other languages. In the case of Indo-Persian, a slew of texts became "homeless"…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Andrew Frankel (Curry School) Just how pervasive among teachers, students, and communities are state-supplied narratives of what constitutes legitimate knowledge and academic achievement? Using an ethnographic approach to explore how Tibetan teachers…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
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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…
Posted on 12/05/2018
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 subsequent "hole in the ozone layer," in the 1970s and 80s. A tension between "development" and "environmental sustainability"…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Batul Abbas (Landscape Architecture) This is a research proposal to investigate the beekeeping practices of the Kars region of Turkey. The northeastern Anatolian region where Kars is located is a leading global honey producer, a place of strong women's…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
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Andrew Mondschein (Urban and Enviromental Planning, Architecture) This study investigates the role of nature in urban walking, examining this relationship across cities in India and the United States. A cognitive mapping survey will capture how urban walkers…
Posted on 12/05/2018
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Anastasia Dakouri-Hild (Art/Archaeology) The question of core vs periphery has been intensely debated in the social sciences and the humanities since the 1970s, following the publication of Wallerstein's (1974) seminal study on World Systems--a cornerstone of…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
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Aynne Kokas (Media Studies) China, the country with the world's most Internet users, offers US media/technology firms important market opportunities. Yet control of content via Chin's major media regulator, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio…
Posted on 12/05/2018
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 the innovative techniques of the latter to imagine alternatives to liberal society and neo-liberalizing world markets. In one…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
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Ran Zhao (East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) Xu Xiake (1587-1641) was a Chinese geographer and travel writer of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). He traveled throughout China for over 30 years, leaving detailed and extensive records of his travels. Xu…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Bremen Donovan (Anthropology) I am a PhD student in socio-cultural anthropology, focusing on policing, migration, and visual/sensory methods. My doctoral research broadly addresses how policing is impacting West African youth in Paris and surrounding…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
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Murad Idris (Politics), Lawrie Balfour(Politics), Sandhya Shukla (English), and Jalane Schmidt (Religious Studies) This two-day conference brings together established and emerging scholars of colonialism, settler-colonialism, and race for a discussion of law,…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Zhe Dong (Architecture) For my project, I will conduct a field survey on the monuments dedicated to Mao Zedong in his birthplace, Shaoshan, China. I will spend two days in Shaoshan doing an observational study of how people use and interpret Mao's…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
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Janet Horne (French and Politics) At this critical point in the development of French domestic politics and the European Union, the French and Politics Departments invite Prof. Vincent Michelot (Sciences-Po, Lyon) as a Visiting Professor for the spring semester…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Catalina Vallejo Pedraza (Sociology) Although transitional justice (TJ) has been used to mobilize substantial financial resources with the aim of compensating victims of civil conflict, little is known about how countries come to drastically different…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Dannah Dennis(Anthropology) I'm currently conducting ethnographic research in Kathmandu for my dissertation in Anthropology. My topics of interest revolve around Nepal's ongoing efforts to re-define itself as a nation in the process of re-writing its…
Posted on 12/05/2018
In 1620, Manuel Gayt√°n de Torres left Jerez de la Frontera to survey Venezuelan copper mines. Copper was central to imperial Spain's currency policies, military campaigns against the Dutch, and trade relationships in West Africa, but it was in short supply. Gayt√°n de Torres projected his vision…