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Posted on 01/19/2024
Spring 2024 FGRU Recipient Andrés Clarens (Engineering) Concrete is one of the most important materials in modern civilization but its production generates 8% of global CO2 emissions so there is growing urgency to develop alternative low-carbon alternatives. Ancient Roman engineers produced…
Posted on 01/19/2024
Spring 2024 FGRU Recipient Muhammad Tayyab Safdar (Global Studies) This project explores whether Chinese investment in Gwadar Port in Pakistan, located at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical lifeline in global trade, can contribute to a significant reordering of Central Asian trade…
Posted on 01/16/2024
Spring 2024 GIG Recipient Uta Erdbrügger (Medicine) The 'Tiny Packages with Big Impact: Workshop on Extracellular Vesicle (EVs) Isolation and Characterization' is born from the acknowledgment of a critical gap in hands-on EV research training. These Extracellular Vesicles are small blebs (tiny…
Posted on 12/20/2023
Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Emily Needham (History) My project explores Martin Luther King Jr’s highly publicized visit to both East and West Berlin. King arrived in September 1964, only a few months after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and just before he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. His…
Posted on 12/13/2023
Fall 2023 GPOD Recipients Catherine Bradshaw, Ph.D. (EHD, Department of Human Services) Amanda Nguyen, Ph.D. (EHD, Department of Human Services) Mercedes Gabriela Orozco Solis, Ph.D. (University of Guadalajara, Mexico)   This project aims to address growing concerns about school safety, youth…
Posted on 12/08/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Mohamed Ismail (Architecture) Less Economically Developed Countries (LEDCs) are struggling to meet the demand for affordable housing in their growing cities. There are several reasons for this, but a major constraint is the high cost of construction materials.…
Posted on 11/27/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Neeti Nair (History) The book project, “Capitals in the Margins: South Asia Since Partition” seeks to answer why, despite the shared experience of colonial British rule and a shared investment in anticolonial nationalist movements, South Asia remains the least…
Posted on 11/27/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Matthew Chin (Women Gender and Sexuality Studies) This study explores the relationship between Britain’s abolition of slavery in its Caribbean colonies (1838) and its instigation of the First Opium War with China (1839). It counters the epistemic silence that…
Posted on 11/26/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Jennifer Sessions (History) This project seeks to revitalize study of the intimate as a critical site for the humanistic study of empire and its postcolonial legacies. Hosting the annual meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society will bring scholars from…
Posted on 11/26/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Natasha Heller (Religious Studies) This project uses the many religious sites in the red cypress forest of Alishan to investigate conceptions of human and nonhuman personhood in twentieth century Taiwan. Through close reading of visual and textual evidence, I…
Posted on 11/26/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Erik Linstrum (History) Where did Britain look for its future as the British Empire came to an end in the twentieth century?  The usual answer—the European Economic Community, which Britain joined in 1973—misses a much longer and more complex story about British…
Posted on 11/26/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Lean Sweeney (History) Lean Sweeney’s Individual Faculty Research grant from the CGII supports archival research looking at late nineteenth century uses of informal, marriage-like relationships to navigate changing economic contexts and divorce and inheritance…
Posted on 11/26/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Margo Smith (Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection) Yolŋu cultural practitioner and activist Mayatili Marika will deliver the W. Wanambi Distinguished Lecture in the Dome Room of the Rotunda on February 3, 2024, followed by a reception in the Upper West Oval Room.…
Posted on 11/26/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipients Earl Mark (Architecture) Dimitris Papanikolaou (Architecture, National Technical University of Athens) Eva Papatzani (Research Associate & Co-Principal Investigator, Centre for Social Research, Athens) This research integrates several methods to comprehend…
Posted on 11/26/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipient Elgin Cleckley (Architecture) Brookes (Revisited) is the first design exhibition to accurately visualize the iconic 1788 drawing  “Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788,” created by abolitionists and politicians…
Posted on 11/26/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipients Katia Dianina (Slavic Department) My project considers the contested heritage debate in the former Serbian province of Kosovo on the example of four medieval Eastern Orthodox monasteries, all UNESCO World Heritage sites.  While the Serbian side claims cultural…
Posted on 11/26/2023
Fall 2023 Center Grant Recipients Chris Carter (Politics) Daniel Gingerich (Politics) Many occupier governments seek to permanently integrate occupied territories into their national borders. Often, they pursue this goal through plebiscites, holding legitimate or sham elections to determine…
Posted on 11/15/2023
Fall 2023 GIG Recipient Steve Parks (English) Rebuilding Civil Society, Embedding Democratic Roots will examine the processes by which advocates in Zimbabwe are attempting to rebuild a grassroots democratic culture in the context of an authoritarian regime successfully resisting a strategy of…
Posted on 11/14/2023
Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Omokolade Omigbuile (Anthropology) Historical records attest the Bight of Biafra as a significant European entrepôt during the Trans-Atlantic period. Through archaeological evidence, this project investigates daily life and the material histories of the Trans-Atlantic…
Posted on 11/13/2023
Fall 2023 GGR Recipient Daniel Fishkin (Music) The daxophone is a carved hardwood strip played with a bow. The instrument’s sound, somewhere between a cello and badger, ranges from furtive gurgles to wild screams. Daniel Fishkin has been is the only Luthier to have studied with its inventor, Hans…