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Posted on 06/15/2021
Fall 2020 GPOD Grant Recipient
David Rapp (Urology)
Critical to the success of global initiatives addressing surgical disease in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are not only efforts to provide surgical care but also to prevent surgical disease. Extensive study has proven that pelvic floor…
Posted on 06/15/2021
Fall 2020 Grant Recipient
Matthew Chin (Women, Gender & Sexuality)
The Digital Collection Launch of the Jamaica Gaily News took place on Nov 20, 2020. The Jamaica Gaily News was the publication of the Gay Freedom Movement in Jamaica, the first gay activist organization in the anglophone…
Posted on 06/15/2021
Fall 2020 Grant Recipient
Beth Schueler (Education & Public Policy)
This field experimental study will test whether home-based support can promote early literacy skills in Nigeria and Kenya. We will randomly assign schools serving Kindergarten students to test the efficacy of sending home…
Posted on 06/15/2021
Fall 2020 Grant Recipient
David Rapp (Urology)
In low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC), frequent health care appointments related to untreated surgical illness can impede the ability to maintain employment and contribute to poverty. Our project seeks to better quantify the financial…
Posted on 06/15/2021
Fall 2020 Grant Recipient
Michael Levenson (English)
In the Net joins the vulnerabilities of Syrian refugees and British Jews. Within the spirit of Bertolt Brecht’s lerhstücke (learning plays), it aims to unveil political truths through dramatic form. Equally inspired by Antonin Artaud’s theater…
Posted on 06/15/2021
Fall 2020 Grant Recipient
Katia Dianina (Slavic Department)
My project analyzes the spectacular return of the sacred to post-Soviet Russian public sphere following seventy years of forced secularization. Contemporary Russia provides one of the most striking examples of desecularization. Russia’s…
Posted on 06/15/2021
Fall 2020 Grant Recipient
Katie MacDonald (Architecture)
This initiative seeks to advance approaches to biomaterial construction with an exhibition on Grounds. The construction industry has been slow to adapt as climates shift, overextended supply chains threaten traditional building materials,…
Posted on 06/15/2021
Fall 2020 Grant Recipient
Allison Bigelow (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese)
With this funding, we will produce two Mayan-language editions of the Popol Wuj for our new digital variorum. Ajpub’ Pablo García Ixmatá (Tz’utujil), Juana Cecelia Ixch’umiil García Méndez (Tz’utujil), Saqijix Candelaria…
Posted on 06/15/2021
Summer 2020 Grant Recipient
Matthew Burtner (Music) and Willis Jenkins (Religious Studies)
Coastal Futures Conservatory integrates arts and humanities into UVa’s Long-Term Ecological Research
(LTER) at the Virginia Coast Reserve (VCR). Having received international attention for its unique…
Posted on 06/15/2021
Summer 2020 Grant Recipient
Marcel Durieux (Medicine)
Surgical outcomes in low/middle income countries (LMIC) are much worse than those in high income countries, causing millions of preventable deaths per year. Identification of at-risk patients and efficient allocation of human resources require…
Posted on 06/15/2021
Fall 2020 COVID Fund Recipient
Miguel Angel Valladares Llata (Library)
This is a library initiative that aims to connect directly with all UVa members who research the Greater Caribbean Region and Indigenous Studies in the Americas with the purpose of identifying, targeting, acquiring and…
Posted on 06/15/2021
Fall 2020 COVID Fund Recipient
George Mentore (Anthropology)
Arising specifically because of the innovative responses to the restrictions on higher education brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, this research will focus on the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America's XIII…
Posted on 09/09/2020
CGII is happy to announce that we will be accepting grant proposals this spring. Our usual suite of grants has been adjusted to emphasize a restart of research activities and to play up novel approaches. We are still subject to the university’s broad COVID-19 constraints (which may change). For…
Posted on 03/18/2020
Colleagues:
This is an update on how UVa’s Covid-19 response will affect CGII applicants and awardees.
All CGII-funded research is bound by the principles put forth by the Provost Magill on March 18, 2020, available here. Please familiarize yourself with them.
Applicants. During this time of…
Posted on 01/30/2020
Fall 2018 Grant Recipient
Sharon Tsai-hsuan Ku (Engineering & Society) and Brantly Womack (Politics)
This project will create an interdisciplinary and international research-education working group constituted by educators from universities, industry and NGO in US and China, to develop a…
Posted on 12/17/2019
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Natasha Heller (Religious Studies)
This institute seeks to reimagine the critical vocabulary of religious studies through the use of Chinese concepts, as a way of decentering and decolonizing the study of religion. Through a multifaceted exploration of seminal Chinese…
Posted on 12/04/2019
Tho Nguyen (Computer Science)
Researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are working with the US Department of State to implement the 2nd Mekong Research Symposium (MRS’19) in Hanoi, Vietnam in December, 2019. Leveraging this opportunity, the UVa team will host a…
Posted on 12/04/2019
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Jessica Marroquín (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)
I will travel to Tepotzotlán to visit colonial and baroque art collections that portray skeletal representations of death housed at the Museo Nacional del Virreinato in Mexico. The museum contains a…
Posted on 12/02/2019
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Caroline Whitcomb (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese)
How can we examine poetry and production from an environmental perspective? The funds granted from the CGII will be used to travel to Puerto Rico to visit the workshop of and conduct an interview with…
Posted on 12/02/2019
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Graduate Student
Vivien Chang (History)
My dissertation explores the making of the New International Economic Order (NIEO)—and the demands for economic sovereignty and a “right to development” it embodied—from the perspective(s) of sub-Saharan Africa. Plagued…