Awardees
The Office of Global Affairs awarded Global Initiatives Fellowships to four teams of faculty and their international partners in 2022. Each project received up to $5,000 in funding to support the design of resources and/or programming related to campus internationalization and global learning. This year’s brilliant awardees are listed below.
Margaret Griesse
Associate Teaching Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Project: Global Perspectives on Human Rights and Anti-Racism
The project provides opportunities for students and faculty to engage with scholars and community activists from Latin America, North America, and Europe to discuss their understandings of racism and anti-racism practices. The project encourages self-reflection on the limits of our own situated understanding of race, provides students with access to international scholars and discussions via Zoom seminars and in-person discussions, and supports the HI-NORM Cluster, a tri-campus inter-disciplinary human rights-focused research collaborative.
Ji-Hyun Ahn
Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Project: Study Abroad in South Korea
Dr. Ahn seeks to expand study abroad programming for UW Tacoma students to a country that has been underrepresented in study abroad, but where students consistently express interest. The fellowship supports Dr. Ahn’s travel to South Korea to develop partnerships with scholars, media industry insiders, and university study abroad managers in Seoul and at Busan National University.
Vanessa de Veritch Woodside
Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Project: COIL Experience: “Perspectives on Gender, Immigration, and Psychology from Both Sides of the US-Mexico Border”
Dr. de Veritch Woodside is developing an innovative and interdisciplinary COIL seminar that enables students from UW Tacoma and la Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Campus Morelia) to delve into issues related to gender, immigration, and psychology from intercultural and transnational perspectives. Intended to complement current course offerings related to transnational migration at both of our institutions, students from both countries will regularly interact in pairs and small groups to discuss the course content. Students will also hear from invited guests who work firsthand with immigrants as licensed practitioners, faculty, and representatives of key immigrant-serving organization in or near Morelia and Tacoma, both home to immigration detention centers.
Michael Kula (left) and Tyler Budge (right)
Associate Professor and Associate Teaching Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Project: Study Abroad in Namibia
This project aims to develop partnerships with universities, artists, and arts organizations in Namibia. Professors Kula and Budge, together with international partners, propose to create a new study abroad program examining the role of place in community-centered art making.
Themes will include landscapes of urban and desert environments, and the importance of water from a social and climate justice standpoint.
