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Posted on 12/05/2018
Schaeffer Somers, Lecturer in Architecture and Public Health Sciences, is directing a Faculty-Student Global Research project with 4thyear students,Harsheen Kaur andHafsa Ambreen, to analyze the architecture of Maggie Centers in the United Kingdom. Maggie Centers are designed to promote the…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Bremen Donovan (Anthropology)
My dissertation is about how body-worn recording technologies in policing are affecting the production, admissibility, and evaluation of evidentiary claims. With CGII support, I will conduct a baseline study this summer…
Posted on 12/05/2018
This project explores the understudied Janowska concentration camp and the Holocaust in Lviv, Ukraine. With the support of the FGRU grant, two students will work as research assistants with Waitman Wade Beorn. They will conduct archival research in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Tracey Stewart (Music) This dissertation explores how music and musical performances are used to mediate trauma and memory, and the influence that these mediations have on identities at individual and community levels. The CGII grant will support…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Swati Chawla(History) How have five decades of exile shaped the ideas of belonging, (up)rootedness, and religious tradition in the Tibetan diaspora? The proposed research aims to answer this question by studying recent innovations within the Buddhist…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Swati Chawla(History) Since the Fourteenth Dalai Lama escaped into India in 1959, three generations of Tibetans have cultivated land, established small businesses, and built administrative and monastic institutions in settlements spread over South Asia.…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Swati Chawla (History) My work approaches Tibetan migration to India in the second half of the twentieth century through the longer history of lay and monastic movement in the region to ask new questions of nationalism and bureaucratic regimes of…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Jennifer Hsiaw (Architecture) This project will investigate the impact of high-tech corporate construction on urban and suburban conditions in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. I seek to understand how these corporate structures changed the landscape of…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Justin Mann (Art) My project explores the creation of sacred space and the treatment of 'special dead' (victims of the plague and leprosy) within a newly excavated cemetery in Late Antique Thebes, Greece. This project will draw from a variety of…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2017 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Xiaoyuan Liu (History) Mr. Guoqi Xu is Kerry Group Professor in Globalization History and Professor of History, the University of Hong Kong. He is coming to Grounds to deliver a lecture, "China as a Transnational Idea," on February 23, 2018. Mr. Xu has published…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Alison Levine (French)
I am currently working on documentary films from within and outside of France that address trauma suffered by migrants and asylum seekers in Europe. I plan a trip to Scotland to share some of my work in a small workshop that includes an…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Meredith Blake (Architecture) Part of acknowledging the new epoch we live in, the Anthropocene, requires we redefine our politics to acknowledge that climate change knows no borders. Our relationship to the planet we live on, the land we occupy and the…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2018 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Elena Grissom (Politics) As part of the field research for my master's thesis in Comparative Politics, I will be traveling to Israel this summer with a fellowship from Hebrew University. My research involves tracing the formation of cross-group…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Claire Constance (Public Health Sciences) I will be working with the International Organization of Migration (IOM) in Geneva, Switzerland doing a comparative assessment of how migrant health policy in EU countries has effected migrant health outcomes…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2017 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Nora Benedict (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese) I hope to use the tools and skills acquired from Jennifer Stertzer and Cathy Hajo's Digital Humanities Summer Institute course on "Conceptualising and Creating a Digital Edition" (June 5-9, 2017; University…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Mila Versteeg (Law), Kevin L. Cope (Law),James Loeffler(History),Michael J. Smith (Politics), David Leblang (Politics) The conference entails a multi-day event jointly organized by the School of Law, Department of History, and Department of Politics. The event…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2015 Recipient
Faculty
Rita Felski (English) This conference brings six distinguished scholars from France, Australia, the UK, and the US to grounds on September 18, 2015. While based in history, anthropology, literary studies, and geography, these scholars are all actively engaged in…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Fall 2015 Grant Recipient
Faculty
Margo Smith (Kluge-Ruhe Museum) This project brings scholars and museum professionals together with Indigenous knowledge holders from Central Arnhem Land, Australia, to address issues pertaining to access and management of cultural objects and archival materials…
Posted on 12/05/2018
Spring 2016 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Elizabeth W. Doe (History of Art and Architecture) My dissertation situates John Singer Sargent and Anders Zorn within a transnational artistic community in the late nineteenth century. Scholarly discussion of these prominent, contemporaneous European…
Posted on 12/04/2018
"Sharing One Sky: SDSS, APOGEE and Astronomy Outreach" focused on bilingual STEM education and outreach, and was held in Santiago, Chile. School teachers, science museum educators, and members of the press joined astronomy students and faculty for discussions about astronomy education and outreach…