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Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Lana Hye-Joe Park (Sociology)
In many cases of disaster, the why questions arise: Why did the disaster happen? Why did the victims die? Why should the bereaved suffer with their loss? This project explores how these why questions are dealt with differently by the state,…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Paola Monteros-Freeman (Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese)
“Visuality of (Un)seen and (Un)told Stories” Investigates the regional cinema in Argentina and its role as a tool for peripheral voices and spaces to be heard and seen focusing their narrative in marginalized…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Elizabeth Mirabal Llorens (Spanish, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese)
The preliminary hypothesis of my project is that nostalgia was deployed as a literary artifact by traveling subjects from the Caribbean in their intimate discourses. My objective is to…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Emma Lineberger (School of Architecture, Department of Architecture History)
My thesis research examines the early period of Italian colonization between 1870 and 1900 in today’s Eritrea and Somalia. This period is understudied as there was little to no governmental…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Yen-Yu Lin (Sociology)
Yen-Yu Lin’s dissertation project, Colors of the Empire: Visual Representations of Race and Gender in Colonial Taiwan, examines the racialized and gendered “rule of difference” through material culture with an empirical focus on Taiwan under Japanese…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Yanbin Li (Psychology)
The proposed study aims to better understand Chinese women's wishes to undertake transnational migration. The proposed study will also examine whether Chinese sexual minority and heterosexual women differ in their life goals (e.g. marriage,…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Molly Joyce (Music)
Left and Right is an interdisciplinary collaboration between music, dance, audio description, sign language, and projection to examine myths of the left side through disability perspectives. The piece is a collaboration between writer/audio describer…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Juliana Jiranek (Biology)
Environmental conditions affect multiple stages in the spread of infectious disease. As a result, it can be difficult to predict how environmental shifts brought on by climate change will alter disease dynamics and evolution. This project will…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Ganiyu Jimoh (History of Art and Architecture Program)
The period (1960–1977) witnessed the influx of African American Artists to Africa in search of the “authentic” African identity and to locate their iconography within the lived experience of the continent. This…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Bania Garcia Sanchez (Anthropology)
I will research ideophones and interjections used in speech practices in Zapotec wedding rituals. This project centers on Zapotec as spoken in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico: a contact zone for Zapotec, Zoque, Ikook, and…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 GGR Recipient
Caroline Carter (Program in Mediterranean Art and Archaeology, Department of Art)
On average, over 16,000 people ascend the rocky outcrop of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece each day. The main attractions are the remains of the monumental religious buildings, namely the…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 FGRU Recipient
Charlotte Rogers (Lisa Smith Discovery Chair, Associate Professor of Spanish, Convener in Environmental Humanities)
This project seeks to establish an eco-cultural study of the Ecological Park of the Ceiba Tree of Vieques, Puerto Rico. The community-led park features a…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient
Sylvia Tidey (Anthropology, Global Studies)
This project is a comparative ethnographic study of gender-based community care programs and their impact on LGBTQ elderly in a non-Western context. Specifically, it aims to investigate three unique initiatives meant to…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient
James Savage (Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy)
Savage's research analyzes how the European Union and its twenty-seven member states have financed and budgeted for the expenses associated with the ongoing migration and refugee crises, COVID-19, and…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient
Mandy Rispoli (School of Education and Human Development), with collaborators from Indiana University School of Medicine, USA and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kenya
Autism has a growing global prevalence rate of 1 in 100 children. Autistic children often…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient
Jim Igoe (Anthropology)
This grant will support activities related to an ongoing research project in Tanzania, which explores the concepts of dignity and heritage in Maasai lifeworlds, in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and similar target-based policy…
Posted on 12/12/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient
Julide Etem (Media Studies)
This project is about films that are often categorized as educational, nontheatrical or nonfiction. Etem will contextualize these films within a significant body of film activities in Turkey and the United States in the 20th century. Etem…
Posted on 12/07/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient
Mona El Khafif (School of Architecture)
Lithium Territories investigates the current disciplinary debates on Hinterlands Urbanisms and reclaims the agency of design in devising more socially and environmentally just futures. The project will initiate a research…
Posted on 12/07/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient
Michaela Dubay (School of Education and Human Development)
In Bolivia, autism diagnoses are most often delayed or missed due to the scare number of healthcare professionals with autism training or expertise. This project will create a network of highly trained…
Posted on 12/07/2022
Fall 2022 CG Grant Recipient
Sonia Alconini (UVA)
Kylie Quave (GWU)
George Mentore (UVA)
We propose to convene in 2024 an international gathering of scholars and practitioners working across different disciplines in the Amazonian and Andean regions. There are emerging environmental and…