Global Engagement

Since 2013, the Global Engagement Faculty Grants have supported over 110 faculty/projects in research and conference travel. See below for a partial list of award recipients in recent rounds for the International Collaborative grant, which supports joint conferences, workshops, or seminars involving at least two Georgetown faculty and one foreign collaborator.

• Meredith McKittrick, Kathryn de Luna (History), "Rainmaking and Reign-making in sub-Saharan Africa's Driest Country: Hydrological knowledge, water infrastructure, and political community in Namibia," spring 2024
• Nina Kadan-Lottick, Christopher Loffredo (Oncology), "A Collaborative Epidemiological Study on Central Nervous Systems (CNS) Tumors in Brazilian Children," spring 2024
• Vanessa Watters Opalo, Rajesh Veeraraghavan (Science, Technology, and International Affairs), "Grounding Innovation: A proposal for community-centric climate-smart agriculture," spring 2024
• Mak Paranjape, Christine Fleury (Physics, Medicine), "Sweat-Test Diagnosis of Cystic Fibrosis with a Transdermal Patch," spring 2024
• Elizabeth Ferris, Katharine Donato (International Migration) "In the Aftermath of the Earthquake in Turkiye: Enhancing Social Cohesion among Syrian Refugees and the Host Society in Turkey," spring 2024
• Kevin Tobia, Nathan Schneider (Law, Linguistics), "New Directions in Legal Interpretation: Perspectives on Legal Interpretation and Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, and Philosophy," spring 2024
  
• Gregory Albery, Shweta Bansal (Biology), "Launching a New Era of Comparative Social Network Analysis," fall 2023
• Rebecca Katz, Uwe Brandes (Microbiology and Immunology, Law), "Inoculating Cities: A Vision for a Healthier World," fall 2023
• Kelley Anderson, Krista White, Karen McClure (Nursing), "Partnering with the Siha Community in Tanzania to Promote Health," fall 2023
• Anna de Fina, Marianna Ryshina-Pankova (Italian, German), "Researching Digital Storytelling: Methods and Applications," fall 2023
• Cóilín Parsons (English), "Ireland and the Legacies of Slavery," fall 2023
• Kathleen Claussen, Álvaro Santos (Law ), "Evaluating Labor Rights Enforcement Efforts under the US-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement," fall 2023
  
• Oswaldo Villena, Ali Arab, Peter Armbruster (Earth Commons, Statistics, Biology) "The Impact of Temperature on Vector-borne Disease Transmission in Staple Crops and its Implications for Food Security," spring 2023
• Kathleen Smith, Bradley Gorski (Slavic Languages), "Processing the Long Perestroika: Sociopolitical Disintegration and Cultural Transformation in Russia, 1985–2000," spring 2023
• Matthew Carnes, Diana Kapiszewski, Bryan McCann (SFS, Government, History), "Program on the Political Economy of Latin America and the Caribbean (ProPELAC)," spring 2023
  
• Kathleen Claussen, Austin Williams, Sarah Nouwen, Sergio Puig (Law), "SAILS: Study and Analysis of International Law and Scholarship," spring 2023
  
• Garance Genicot, Jishnu Das, Berk Ozler (Economics, McCourt, SFS), "Poverty Today: A Conference in Honor of Martin Ravallion," spring 2023
• Jessica Kritz, Jjulius Fobil, Rosemary Sokas, Gina Green (Global Health, Earth Commons), "Environmental and Occupational Hazards in Solid Waste and Fishing in Ghana," spring 2023," fall 2022
• Christina Marea, Laura Arrington (Nursing), "Partnering to Develop the Global Nursing and Midwifery Workforce: A Bi-Directional Educational Research Partnership for Georgetown University School of Nursing and State University of Zanzibar," fall 2022
• Laura Benedetti, Philip Kafalas (Italian Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures) "Dreams of the Early Modern World," fall 2022
• Emily Mendenhall, Yulia Chentsova Dutton, Sharon Abramowitz, Shabab Wahid Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner, Elena Lesley (Science, Technology, and International Affairs, Psychology, Global Health Science and Security, Global Health, Philosophy), ""Twenty-Five Years of Psychological Interventions in Emergency Contexts: Lessons Learned and Future Directions," fall 2022
  
• Christopher Loffredo, Christian Hunter, Sharon Kibwana, Alejandra De Mendoza (GUMC), "Cancer Prevention Engagement in Eswatini," fall 2022
  
• Alvaro Santos, Diana Kapiszewski (Law, Government), "Strengthening the Institutional Capacity of Latin American and Caribbean States to Address Foreign Investors’ Claims," spring 2022
• Steven Singer, Pinaki Panigrahi (Biology), "Pathogenesis of Giardiasis in India," spring 2022
• Toby Long, Sylvia Wing Önder (Child and Human Development, Anthropology), "Early Intervention for Refugee Children with Disabilities Living in Turkey," spring 2022
  
• Anita Gonzalez, Soyica Colbert, Rosemary Ndubuizu (African American Studies), "Women’s Liberation and Protest through Transnational Musical Storytelling," spring 2022
  
• Kathryn de Luna, Alison Games, Adam Rothman, Ananya Chakravarti (History), "Language as Archive and Method in the Vast Early Americas," spring 2022
  
• Erica Coates, Dionne Coaker-Appiah, Denisha Carter, Corrine Holdbrook (Psychiatry), "Africa's Mental Health Matters - Ghana Workshop," fall 2021
  
• Adriane Fugh-Berman and Thomas Sherman (Pharmacology and Physiology), "Inventing Disease: Industry Influence on Diagnosis," fall 2021
• Katharine Donato, Lisa Singh (Sociology, Computer Science), "Big Data and Forced Migration," fall 2021
• Bryan McCann, Benjamin Harbert, Adam Rothman (History, Music), "The Keys to the Archive: Making available and Interpreting the Dispersed Field Recordings of Luiz Heitor Correa de Azevedo," fall 2021
• Wu Zeng and Bernhard Liese (International Health), "Financing Mental Health in Ghana: Joint research by the Ghana Health Service and Georgetown University," fall 2021
• Tim Newfield, Colin Carlson, Emily Mendenhall (History, Biology, Science, Technology, and International Affairs), "Climate Change and Infectious Disease, Dynamics Before 1900," fall 2021
• Francesco Ciabattoni, Gianni Cicali, Fulvio Orsitto (Italian, Villa Le Balze), "Dante for the 21st Century: A Symposium on Dante Alighieri's Works," Florence, Italy, spring 2021
  
• Anna De Fina and Lourdes Ortega (Italian, Linguistics), "GURT 2020, Multilingualism: Global South and North Perspectives," Washington, DC, March 2020
• James Giordano and Ophir Frieder (GUMC, Computer Science), "If it Only Had a Brain? What 'Neuro' Means for Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society," Trent, Italy, May 2020 and Washington, DC, October 2020
• Emily Mendenhall, Katharine Donato, Denise Brennan, Lahra Smith, "Migration and Health across Borders: Transatlantic Perspectives in International Affairs," Washington, DC, January 2020
  
• Chiranjeev Dash and Lucile L. Adams-Campbell (GUMC), "Establishment of a Genomic and Molecular Epidemiology Focused Breast Cancer Research," Curitiba, Brazil, October 2019 and Washington, D.C., April 2020
  
• Michael David-Fox and Gregory Afinogeniv (History, SFS), "The Political Police and the Soviet System: Insights from the Newly Opened KGB Archives in Kiev, the Baltics, and Georgia," Washington, D.C., April 2020
  
• Brandon Dotson and Michelle C. Wang (Theology and Religious Studies, Art and Art History), "Divination Traditions in Conversation: Mahésvara's Method of Divination in Chinese and Transcultural Contexts," Washington, D.C., June 2019
  
• Nita Rudra, Erik Voeten and Dennis Quinn, "Analysing the Anti-Globalization Backlash," Florence, Italy, May 2019
  
• SonaVasudevan and Radhakrishnan Padmanabhan (GUMC), "First International Conference in Systems and Network Medicine," Washington, D.C., September 2019
  
• Diane Davis, Laura Anderko, Erin Maughan, Susan Coleman, and Lorraine Spencer (NHS), "Developing an International School Nurse Research Consortium," Stockholm, Sweden, July 2019
  
• Leslie Ries and Ali Arab, "Assessing Biodiversity Impacts of Global Change in Mediterranean Biomes," Washington, D.C., June 2019
• Debora Dole, Julia Lange-Kessler, Cynthia Farley, Rosemary Sokas (NHS), "Partnering to the Strengthen the Healthcare Workforce and Support Midwifery Education in Liberia," Liberia, fall 2018
• Bassem Haddad, Kevin FitzGerald, Luc Wathieu (GUMC, MSB), "What Do Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) Genetic Testing Companies Need To Do To Get This Business 'Morally Right'?" Washington, D.C., September 2019
  
• Toby Long, Neal Horen, Rochelle Davis, Elizabeth Ferris (GUMC, SFS, ISIM), "Communities Can International," Lebanon and Jordan, October 2018
  
• Douglas Reed, Matthew Carnes (Government, CLAS), "Lessons from the Odebrecht Corruption Case: Challenges and Opportunities to Future Brazil-U.S. Joint Criminal Investigations," Washington, D.C., October 2018
  
• Lawrence Gostin, Rebecca Katz, Emily Mendenhall (Law Center, GUMC, SFS), "Achieving Global Health Security: Seed Funding to Strengthen an International Consortium," Edinburgh, United Kingdom, spring 2018
• Jonathan AC Brown and Khairudin Aljunied (ACMCU), "Reorienting Islam in Southeast Asia: Global Forces, Local Projections," Washington, D.C., February 2018.
• Anatol Lieven, Harry Verhoeven, Irfan Nooruddin, Daniel Byman (GU-Q, SFS), "Between Liberal Peace & Escalating Conflict: The New Geopolitics of the Indian Ocean," Washington, D.C., April 2018
  
• Denise Brennan and Rochelle Davis (Anthropology, SFS), "Go Back to Where You Came from: Global Displacement in A Hostile Time," Washington, D.C., October 2016
• James Giordano and Kevin FitzGerald (GUMC), "When in ‘Roam'...Transnational Patients: Practical and Ethical Implications for Medical Practices and Health Promotions Policy," Washington, D.C., spring 2017
• Bryan McCann, John McNeill, Camilli Gaskin-Reyes (History, SFS), "Brazil’s Rio Doce Disaster: the History and Consequences of a Man-made Environmental Disaster," Washington, D.C., November 2016
• Yulia Chentsova and Emily Mendenhall (Psychology, SFS), "Interdisciplinary Workshop on Global Mental Health," Washington, D.C., April 2016
• Dionne Smith Coker-Appaih, Nana Apenem Dagadu, Jessica Kritz (GUMC), "An International Collaboration to Prevent Gender-Based Violence in Ghana," Ghana, August 2016
• Erin Cline and Michael Slater (Theology), “International Conference on Confucianism & Catholicism: Reinvigorating the Dialogue,” Washington, D.C., spring 2016
• James Mattingly and Rebecca Kukla (Philosophy), “New Directions in the Foundations of Physics,” Washington, D.C., April 2015
• Jordan Sand and Katherine Benton-Cohen (History), “Pacific Empires Working Group,” Washington, D.C., May 2015
• Aziza Shad and Gerald Sandler (GUMC), “Capacity Building in Pediatric Oncology - The Ethiopian Pediatric and Adolescent Hematology/Oncology Initiative at Jimma University Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia,” Jimma, Ethiopia, June 2015
• Diana Kapiszewski and Erik Voeten (Government), “Workshop on Methods in Comparative Judicial Politics,” Fall 2014
• Alvaro Santos and Philomila Tsoukala (Law), "Critical Perspectives in Development and Global Economic Governance: Ideas for the 21st Century,” Fall 2014
• Lahra Smith, Emily Mendenhall, Adam Koon (SFS), “Symposium on Implementation of Universal Health Coverage (UHC): The Views of Kenyan Nurses," Fall 2014
• Cristina Sanz (Spanish/Portuguese), “Effects of study abroad in language and identity development," Spring 2014
• Emily Mendenhall (SFS/STIA), "Depression and Diabetes in Social and Cultural Context: An Exploratory Study of Urban Kenyans living with Diabetes," Spring 2014
• Mahlet Tadesse (Mathematics and Statistics), "Modeling complex systems by integrating big data with expert knowledge," Spring 2014
• Jane Aiken, Richard Roe, Walter Bardenwerper (Law), "Innovative Teaching Using Clinics, Experiential Learning and Complex Simulations in GULC and the University of Hong Kong," Spring 2014
• Leena Hilakivi-Clarke and Mary Beth Martin (Oncology, LCCC), "Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Georgetown University," Spring 2014
• Shiloh Krupar (SFS), "The Enterprise of Life: Biomedicine, Biopolitics, and the Ethics of Living On" (collaborative book project), Spring 2014
• Fida Adely, Rochelle Davis, Joseph Sassoon (SFS/CCAS), "Trajectories of Arab Youth: From University to Work and Family," Spring 2014
• Mark Giordano (SFS/STIA), "India's Water Futures," Fall 2013
• Jennifer Bouey (International Health), "Multi-level HIV interventions among FSW-IDUs in China," Fall 2013
• Bryan McCann, Erick Langer, Vivaldo Santos (SFS/CLAS), "State and Development Policy in Brazil: the Influence of the United States: 1986-2006," Fall 2013
• Paul Roepe (Chemistry), "Development of Cytocidal Assays for Antimalarial Drugs," Fall 2013
• Edilma Yearwood (Nursing), "Assessing Mental Health of Vulnerable and At-Risk Youth," Fall 2013
• Shareen Joshi (SFS), "Can the poor be organized? How?" Fall 2013