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Posted on 06/06/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Steve Parks (English)
Recent scholarship has indicated that more than outside aid, the success of an non-violent campaign fror democratic rights depends on the skills of the campaign leadership. Building off that research, the Democratic Futures Working Group (DFWG)…
Posted on 06/06/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Theodore Teichman (Architecture)
What if we stop treating soil like dirt? Iceland provides a unique microcosm for the complex entanglements of being soil due to the natural conditions of being an island, the heightened reactivity to environmental…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Emily Warwick (Politics)
My current research is focused on collective action and informal governance in the COVID-19 pandemic responses seen in the favelas of urban Brazil, particularly in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Thanks in part to the generous…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Carlos Velazco Fernández (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese)
Informed by the perspective of Global South studies, my project explores the ideological tensions within the Popular Socialist Party (PSP) between 1953 and 1954‒when the agendas of the PSP…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Madeline Smith (Architecture)
This project consists of a year-long thesis study surrounding the influence of French garden design on the American landscape as traced through the distribution of French botanical art of the 18th century. This research…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Nicholas Scott (History)
In this project, which is part of my dissertation, I seek to reconstruct the links between the Catholic Church and Chile’s socialist revolution through a targeted study of the Vicuña Mackenna industrial zone located in…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Kathleen King (Music)
This project aims to explore how soundscape studies are conducted on Indigenous land and how Indigenous knowledge is utilized and effected by such research. Through observing soundscape ecologists in the field at the Virginia…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Josué Godoy (History)
My project explores the ways Indigenous intellectuals in the Regional Indigenous
Council of Cauca (CRIC) of the 1970s articulated non-Western ways of being in their
mobilization of Indigenous peasantry to social action. These…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Daniel Doncel (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)
The project takes the Spanish Civil War as a site of confluence between Spain’s internal history, its imperial past in Latin America and Africa, Black international anti-imperialism, and Cuban communism…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Hao Chen (History)
This project studies the domestic and international roots of the ethnopolitical transformation in Yanbian, the Korean autonomous region along the Chinese-North Korean border, as a unique case of China’s modern territoriality change…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Dijia Chen (Architecture)
This project investigates the construct of contemporary Chinese architecture in exhibitionary representations under hegemonic transnational cultural exchange by looking into a series of German exhibitions on contemporary…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Cassidy Brown (Architecture)
The architectural research discusses disability politics and its relationship to contemporary spatial development. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated in 2021 that over 1 billion people live with some sort of…
Posted on 05/25/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
M. Tayyab Safdar (Politics) and Dorothy C. Wong (Art)
China continues to consolidate its emerging position as a global power. The Belt & Road Initiative remains a significant part of the country’s development strategy and is part of the 14th Five-Year Plan. There…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 GPOD Grant Recipient
Hudson Golino (Psychology) and Mariana Teles (Psychology)
Manipulation of information or fabrication of false and incorrect information shared via social media and online platforms has severe societal consequences, from distrust in democratic institutions and low…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Piers Gelly (English)
My project, “The Global Voices of Black Mountain College,” will contribute to a narrative podcast series telling the story of Black Mountain College, an experimental liberal arts college that existed from 1933-1957 in rural North Carolina. Despite…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Mark Sicoli (Anthropology) and Armik Mirzayan (Anthropology)
CGII funds support participation by Tribal citizens in the Siouan-Caddoan Languages Conference hosted at Brooks Hall May 27–29, 2022. The conference gathers linguists and community members around questions of…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
David Germano (Religious Studies) and Charles Laughlin (East Asian Literature and Culture)
This symposium focuses on exploring and celebrating the recent emergence of Tibetan female writers in their Himalayan homelands and in the broader global diaspora. Prominent…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Anastasia Dakouri-Hild (Art)
The project explores the ancient and contemporary landscape of Aphidna near Athens, Greece, combining historical analysis with the systematic collection of surface archaeological finds (survey) and ethnography, augmenting the humanistic…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Giulio Celotto (Classics), Francesca Calamita (Spanish, Italian & Portuguese), and Giulia Paoletti (Art)
“The Siren Project” aims at reflecting on the representation and the role of women’s voice in literature and the visual arts through time and geographies. In…
Posted on 05/24/2022
Spring 2022 Grant Recipient
Jack W. Chen (East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures), Chad Wellmon (Germanic Languages and Literatures), and Daniel T. Willingham (Psychology)
Reading is one of the foundational practices at the heart of human culture. We read for the sake of knowledge and…