The Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning is pleased to offer the Graduate Global Research Fellows program for Laney Graduate School PhD students in the pre-candidacy stage. The program provides funds to support summer research in preparation for dissertation work and includes a series of research and grant related workshop sessions to prepare students to apply for competitive national and international grants.
This program is offered in collaboration with Emory partners: LGS, CFDE, ECDS and GSI.
| Year | Research Country | Awardee | Project Title |
| 2022 | Turkey | Rusen Bingul | The Heqî: Customary Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution in the margins of Turkey |
| 2022 | India | Roshni Chattopadhyay | Conciliations at the Margins of the State: An Ethnographic Study of the Majhi System in Contemporary India |
| 2022 | France | Olivia Cocking | Reinventing Citizenship: Race, Gender, and the Everyday Life of Law in Paris, 1919 – 1962 |
| 2022 | Mexico | Alejandro Guardado | Building a New World: A Reimagining Catholicism in Late Twentieth Century Oaxaca |
| 2022 | Jordan | Seyed Hossein Hosseini Nassab | The Sale of Debt in Islamic Finance |
| 2022 | Brazil | Ayssa Yamaguti Norek | Same Prisons, Different Methods: Gender, Political Prisoners and Penitentiaries in the Brazilian Military Dictatorship, 1964–1985 |
| 2022 | Guatemala | Hina Raheel | To test the effect of a community-based educational intervention on women’s empowerment status among Xinca indigenous women livening in the Xalapam region of rural Jalapa, Guatemala. |
| 2022 | Mexico | Ursula Rall | Forging Urban Communities: The Spatial Mobility and Social Networks of Women of African Descent in Seventeenth-Century New Spain |
| 2022 | India | Surbhi Shrivastava | Shifting standards of care: Health workers’ interactions with birthing women in India |
| 2022 | Hong Kong | Eddy Yeung | Beyond Persuasion and Signaling: Propaganda as Provocation |
| 2021 | India | Anwesha Das | Shaped by the Sea: Situating the Coast of Gujarat in the Medieval Indian Ocean |
| 2021 | Ethiopia | Cheng Liu | Cultural transmission and lithic variability in the Later Stone Age Gona, Ethiopia |
| 2021 | India | Kanika Sharma | Beyond Access: Women’s Experiences of Healthcare in Rural India |
| 2021 | Brazil | Rebecca Shasanmi | Intersectionality, Nursing Workforce and Mental Health: Focusing on COVID-19 Response in Brazil |
| 2021 | China | Yumin Wang | Mass Political Consequences of Partial Redistribution – Evidence from China |
| 2021 | United Kingdom | Anjuli Webster | Fluid Empires: Environment, Sovereignty, and Enclosure in southern Africa |
| 2020 | Rwanda/Italy/Belgium | Georgia Brunner | Cultivating a Nation: Gender and the Political Economies of Nationalism in Late Colonial Rwanda |
| 2020 | Lebanon | Peter Habib | Syrian Navigation and Establishment of Systems of Refuge in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley |
| 2020 | Costa Rica | Sarah Kovalaskas | Between Group Competition and Within-group Cooperation in Wild Capuchins (Cebus capucinus): a Behavioral and Physiological Investigation |
| 2020 | Morocco/Tunisia | Brittany Landorf | Sitting with Lella Manoubia: Gender, Sainthood, and Citizenship in Tunisian Modernity |
| 2020 | Uganda | Katharine Lindquist | Middle Classness and Inequality in Urban Uganda |
| 2020 | Ecuador | Brigitte Pfluger | ECoMiD (Enteropatógenos, Crecimiento, Microbioma, y Diarrea) Neurodevelopment and Behavioral Outcomes Pilot Project |
| 2019 | Argentina | Pearce Edwards | Argentine Military Dictatorship |
| 2019 | Rwanda | Ian Hennessee | Impacts of a Clean Cookstove Intervention on Abundance of Insect Disease Vectors in Eastern Province, Rwanda |
| 2019 | Kenya | Rosemary Kinuthia | Impact of the Human Resources for Health on HIV Outcomes in Kenya |
| 2019 | Senegal | Xorla Ocloo | Sustainable Nutrient Recapture in Agro-ecosystems: Assessing the Feasibility of Azolla spp. as a Biofertilizer, Biofeed, and Biocontrol agent for Vectors of Human Pathogens in Northern Senegal |