Competition Cycle
This grant competition is on hold.
Purpose
The Offices of International Affairs, with the support of Office of Research, the Graduate School, and Student Academic Excellence, are sponsoring a grant competition for undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty.
Proposals are sought for a wide range of research and scholarship projects, which include but are not limited to:
- Conducting international research and creative expression at home and abroad
- Addressing global issues in regional contexts
- Advancing global-oriented knowledge in disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary contexts
- Implementing projects and programs in diverse political, economic and cultural settings
- Exploring area studies, research and scholarship on any geographical or cultural region
- Developing and testing international education that enhances equity, diversity access, gender and racial justice
Review Criteria
The proposals are reviewed blind, assessed by evaluators from across a variety of disciplines, so proposals should be written for non-disciplinary reviewers. Awards are based on merit, according to the following criteria:
- Implementing the research or scholarly project within time and budget proposed
- Quality of project within its context
- Appropriateness of proposed budget
- Proposals that have other funding or in kind will be given preference
Proposals can request funds to support, among other things:
- Research project expenses (e.g., data acquiring, mining, digitizing and mapping; supplies, materials)
- Development thesis, manuscripts, and publications
- Development and hosting of an international conference, workshop or speaker series
Note:
- Professional conference travel and fees, as well as sabbatical supplements are not eligible under this award.
- Recipients of this award of the last three cycles are ineligible to submit a proposal for 2025-26.
This grant is subject to policy and university expenditure requirements, including travel to risk-designated countries. Read Ohio State's travel policies and requirements.
Proposal Preparation and Submission
Please include the title of project without the name of applicant(s) as this is a blind review.
- Abstract not exceeding 300 words
- Narrative not exceeding five pages, double spaced, 12 pt. (excluding references)
- Budget – up to one page including including cost sharing, departmental stipend, or other course development resources
- Submit Application Materials
Awards
Stipends will range from $1,000 to $5,000. Funds to be transferred to the recipient's unit after July 1, 2025.
The recipients and their department fiscal officer sign the policy governing the funds, which includes:
- Following Ohio State's travel policies and requirements
- Acknowledging support on any publications
- Reporting on project outcomes within a year
Deadlines
- Proposals due: no grant competition at this time
Questions may be addressed to oia-grants@osu.edu.
Recipients
2024 - 2025
Faculty Research
- Burge Abiral (Department of Anthropology) for “Sedimentation of Crises: Alternative Food Networks, Food Inflation, and Trust in Turkey” in Turkey
- Zulal Fazlioglu Akin (Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy) for “Cultural Policy in the Relationship between Turkey and the European Union” in Turkey
- Liliana Gil (Department of Comparative Studies) for “Colonial Threads of Technological Improvisation” in Brazil and Portugal
- Erin Moore (Department of Anthropology) for “Women Who Pay Their Own Brideprice? The Shifting Politics of Intimate Exchange in Uganda” in East Africa/Uganda
- Carol Smathers (College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences and Ohio State Extension) for “Agritoto Project Pilot” in Tanzania
- Lorraine Wallace (Division of Biomedical Education and Division of Anatomy) for “Health and Wellbeing in the Baltic Region--Kosovo and North Macedonia” in Kosovo and North Macedonia
- Michelle Wibbelsman (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) for “Musical Diversity Among Northern Andean Indigenous Communities” in Otavalo, Ecuador
Graduate Student Research
- Paromita Bathija (Department of Geography) for “The People, Plants, and Exclusionary Logics Assembling India's Conservation Spaces” in Karnataka, India
- Yujie Chen (Department of Dance) for “Relational Embodiment: Tizhi, Dance, and Everyday Motion in Postsocialist China” in China, The United States
- Maria Vitoria de Rezende Grisi (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) for “Geospatial Narratives: Mapping Arabic Influences in Brazil’s poesia popular nordestina” in Brazil
- Selvet Ece Genek Ilgaz (Department of Teaching and Learning) for “Exploring the Impact of Integrated STEM Activities on 6th Grade Students' Perceptions and Attitudes: Turkish Middle School Context” in Istanbul, Turkiye
- Tara Godwin (Department of History) for “Gender Expression in Soviet Occupied Estonia, 1940-1991” in Eastern Europe, Estonia
- Yihui Gong (Department of Human Development and Family Science) for “Impact of Maternal Depression and Cultural Context on Mother-Child Physiological Synchrony in US and Chinese Families” in China
- Mansi Goyal (Department of History) for “Guar Fields, Mica Mines: Rajasthan and the Making of Modern Energy” in India
- John Hurtado Cadavid (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) for “Community cinema in Colombia” in Colombia
- Alisha Jihn (Department of Dance) for “Bodily Archives: Embodied Storytelling in Taiwan” in Taiwan
- Kate Klemm-Szeto (East Asian Studies Center) for “North Korean Refugees in the US: Establishing Korean Americanness” in Korea (Chicago, IL)
- Henry Misa (Department of History) for “Transformations of the Socio-ecological System in Medieval Central Asia, 840-1141 CE (225-535 AH)” in Uzbekistan, Central Asian
- Ruth Nneoma Oliwe (Department of Teaching and Learning) for “Get to See My Thinking: Nigerian Youths Using Comic Storytelling to Visualize Their Problem-Solving Strategies as They Engage in Mathematics Conversations in Algebra” in Lagos/Nigeria
- Megan O’Quin (School of Earth Sciences) for “Investigating Historical Decline of Jamaican Coral Reef Ecosystems Using Coral Cores and Sub-Fossil Assemblages Within Sediment Cores” in Jamaica
- Victoria Paige (Department of History) for “Mother, Maiden, Martyr: Representations of Soviet Military Women in the Stalinist Period” in Russia (Washington DC & Stanford, CA)
- Cherrie Park (College of Social Work) for “A Quantitative Study to Examine Older Koreans’ Readiness for Telemedicine Utilization and the Factors Associated with Their Readiness” in South Korea
- Elise Robbins (Department of English) for “Intersemiotic and Embodied Translations of Renaissance Artifacts through Dance” in Italy
- Oluwadamilola Salau (Department of Geography) for “Modeling Urban Pluvial Flood Risk in Lagos, Nigeria Under a Changing Climate” in Lagos, Nigeria
- Merve Savas (Department of History) for “Criminals on the Move: Parade of Infamy in the Eastern Roman Empire, 3rd - 8th Centuries” in Italy
- Jessica Tjiu (Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies) for “Visualizing “Comfort Women” across Transnational Borders: Beyond the Dichotomy of Deserving/Undeserving Victims” in South Korea
- Keyu Yan (Department of History of Art) for “On Post-Mao Time and Space: Chinese Installation Art, 1980s-1990s” in Hong Kong and mainland China
Undergraduate Student Research
- Mariana Correia (College of Engineering) for "The Role of hAGO1 Variants in Neurodevelopmental Disorders” in Paris, France
- Kareen Darwich (School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences) for “The journey into womanhood in communities of the Andean Amazonian countries” in Amazonia Andean countries (Michigan)
2023 - 2024
Faculty Research
- Rasel Ahmend (Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts) for “Virtual Reality Archiving Using Photogrammetric Method of a Queer Organizing Space in Bangladesh” in Bangladesh and United Stages
- Dawn Anderson-Butcher (College of Social Work) for “LiFEsports in Japan: Sports-Based Cultural Exchange Workshop” in Japan
- Nora Bello (Department of Animal Sciences) for ““Statistical capacity building for agricultural research through interdisciplinary U.S.-Uruguay collaborations”” in Uruguay
- Zhenhua Chen (Department of City and Regional Planning) for “Evaluating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure on Socioeconomic Disparity in the UK” in United Kingdom
- David Hedgecoth (Department of Music) for “Columbus to Curitiba: Arts, Equity, and Excellence” in Brazil
- Catalina Iannone (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) for “The Atlas of Resistance (Lavapiés, Madrid)” in Spain
- Sharvari Karandikar (College of Social Work) for “The Meaning and Evolution of Collective Impact: Lessons from Across the Globe” in Australia, India and Canada
- Laurie Katz (Department of Teaching and Learning) for “Interpersonal dialogues through Arab and Jewish teenagers in Israel: Exploring the development of positive relationships” in Israel, Brazil and the United States
- Jan Lang (Ohio State Marion) for “Operator Theory and non-linear problems on Banach spaces” in Poland, (possibly also Germany, Czech Republic)
- Brooks Marmon (Mershon Center for International Security Studies) for “Navigating Post-colonial Turmoil: Survival Strategies of Zimbabwe’s Elite Boarding Schools” in Zimbabwe
- Daniel Roberts (Department of Dance) for “Creative Expression Project- Balé Teatro Castro Alves and Ballet Jovem” in Brazil
- Sefa Secen (Mershon Center for International Security Studies) for “Whose Security? Humans, Communities, Humanitarian NGOs: A Case Study from Turkey” in Turkey and Syria
- Patricia Sieber (Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures) for “The Dream of a Common Language: Song Culture in Mongol China, 1200-1400” in China
Graduate Student Research
- Adewale Adenle (Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy) for “Between the Spectacle and the Spirit: Re/Contextualizing Yoruba Spiritual Objects in American Art Museums” in Nigeria
- Alyssa Bedrosian (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) for “Catholic feminism and la marea verde: Examining the discursive and digital media strategies of Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir Argentina” in Argentina
- Gabriel Guzman Camacho (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) for “Subjective cartographies of Bolivia’s dictatorship (1964-1982). Dynamics of memory and identity formation during authoritarian regimes.” in Bolivia
- Wonjoon Cha (Department of Educational Studies) for “Exploration of mindset theory in the context of a competitive elite Korean high school” in South Korea
- Mianmian Fei (Department of Educational Studies) for “Students’ Perceived Purposes of Higher Education: A Comparative Analysis” in China and the United States
- Wenhao Guan (Department of History) for “Printing a New China on Maps: Chinese Elites’ Nation-Building Project, Maps, & Shanghai’s Publishing Industry, 1800-1937” in Mainland China
- Emily Hardick (Department of History) for “Choreographing Collaboration: Congolese Performance and the Kinopolitics of Cultural Exchange” in Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Angga Hidayat (Department of Teaching and Learning) for “Equity for Rural Youth in Math: A Narrative Inquiry through Digital Storytelling” in Indonesia
- Jinwei Hung (Department of Teaching and Learning) for “Language Socialization and Academic Adaptation Processes of Chinese Heritage Learners in a Study Abroad Context” in Taiwan
- Jyhjong Hwang (Department of Political Science) for “African Leadership and Chinese Loans - Regime Type and Borrowing Behavior” in Zambia and Cameroon
- Soh Hyeon Kim (Department of Political Science) for “Do Political Parties Respond to Shifting Voters' Preferences?: Urban Migration and the Political Parties' Policy Change” in Zambia and Malawi
- Ritika Sharma Kurup (College of Social Work) for “Evolution of Collective Impact: Lessons from Across the Globe” in Australia, Canada, and India
- Cameron Macaskill (Department of Political Science) for “Regional Integration and Developing the Cosmopolitan” in Kenya
- Henry Misa (Department of History) for “The Environmental History of Central Asia, 9th-12th Centuries” in Uzbekistan
- Hannah Grace Morrison (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) for “Los Exóticos: Resisting Machismo within Mexican lucha Libre Wrestling” in Mexico
- Karis Neufeld (Department of Political Science) for “Citizenship Determination and Social Identity” in Côte d’Ivoire
- Robin Prichard (Department of Dance) for “Aotearoa/New Zealand, Maori Dance, and Decolonizing Dance Education” in New Zealand
- Alhassan Abdul Rahman (Department of History) for “Women in Development: Ghana Muslim Women and the Conundrum of Secular Education: A Historical Perspective” in Ghana
- Jaden Tatum (Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering) for “A Culturally Informed Human-Centered Design Initiative for Addressing Food Insecurity with Rural Farmers in Tanzania” in Tanzania
- Victor Vimos (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) for “Ritual and War in Andean region of Peru" in Peru
- Tatiana Voronava (Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) for “Sexual Citizenship and Urban Landscape in Postsocialist Space: Case Study of Serbia and Kosovo” in Serbia, Kosovo
- Meng Yu (Department of City and Regional Planning) for “Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on land use sustainability: a case study of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail” in Indonesia
Undergraduate Student Research
- Abigail Dietrich (Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) for “Exploring Chemical and Hydrological Relationships in Rivers Draining Peatlands in Northwest Ireland” in Ireland
- Devi Dheekshita Nelakurti (Department of Biomedical Science) for “Sundargarh Oral Cavity Cancer Governance Moonshot Program (SOCC-GM)” in India
2022 - 2023
Faculty Research
- Abby Y. Held (Department of Music) for “Viennese Oboe Recording Project” in Vienna, Austria
- Ila Nagar (Department of Linguistics) for “Weaponizing Language: How the Hindu Right Undermines Indian Muslims” in India
- Momar Ndiaye (Department of Dance) for “La SAPE: Transgression or Assimilation” in Congo, Paris and Bruxelle
- Patrick Sours(Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering) for “Enhancing and Evaluating the Global Capstone Course to Coalesce Engineering Design and Cultural Awareness” in Tanzania, Ghana and Honduras
- Joel Wainwright (Department of Geography) Conserving and Analyzing Records of the Maya Movement of Belize, Central America” in Belize
- Max D. Woodworth (Department of Geography) for “Atmospheric Politics: Air Quality, Civic Science, and Digital Democracy in Taiwan” in Taiwan
Graduate Student Research
- Andri Andriansyah (Department of Teaching and Learning) for “Kindergarten Student Teachers’ Response to Literature Based Teaching in an Online Teacher Preparation Methods’ Course” in Indonesia
- Andrea Armijos Wills (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) for “Lawsuits, Numbers, and Strategies: Portraits of the Lives of Indigenous Women from the Real Audiencia de Quito" in Ecuador, Colombia and Perú
- Julian Marcel Baldemira (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) for “Breaking Imperial Showcases: Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance in the Human Zoos of Nineteenth Century Latin America” in Chile
- Natàlia Server Benetó (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) for “Spanish, Catalan, Valencian: A Study of Speakers’ Perceptions and Identities” in València, Spain
- Shannon Curley (Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies) for “Tourism as a Worlding Practice: Indicators of Identity in Balkan Tourist Experiences” in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia
- Robert Dahlberg-Sears (School of Music) for “Causing a Scene: Music, Space, and the “Punk Ethos” in Tokyo, Japan
- Mariana Miguelez Gomez (Department of Political Science) for “The ‘Ethnic Card’ and the Commodities Boom in Mexico: How Conflicts for Natural Resources Shape Ethnic Identity” in Mexico
- Madelyn Green for “The Impact of Biocultural Strategies on Prehistoric Jomon Biological Diversity” in Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu)
- Ishmael Laryea Konney (Department of Dance) for “By the Fireside: Making Contemporary Dance a Sommunal Experience through Storytelling” in Ghana
- Additti Munshi (College of Social Work) for “Social Workers as Decision Makers: A Theory of Planned Behavior Exploration” in India
- Ayodeji Olugbuyiro (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) for “Afro-Brazilians in Lagos: Cultural Resilience at the Crossroads of Identities” in Nigeria
- Steven Rhue (Department of Anthropology) for “Acknowledging the Unheard: Documenting Children’s Experiences and Perceptions of Water Insecurity in the Urban Amazon of Brazil” in Brazil
- Fabián Arroyo Rojas (Department of Human Sciences) for “The Understandings of Inclusion in Physical Education Teacher Education Programs in Chile” in Chile
- Natalie Romeri-Lewis (Department of Political Science) for “How Latin American Truth-Seeking Influences Violence Against-Women Activism, Discourse, and Legislation: Four Decades of Impact” in Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
- Craig Harris Shapiro (Department of Anthropology) for “Cultivating Resilience: How Ancient Agricultural Systems Sustain an Island” in Samoa
- Daniel Smith (Department of Political Science) for “A Spatial Dataset of Global Historical Politics”
- Alexandra Tuggle (Department of Anthropology) for “Embodiment of Environmental Inequality in Indigenous Health and Well-being Among the Comcaac” in Mexico
- Fabio Weisser (Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures) for “Eberhard Ludwig Gruber and his “Truly Inspirational” Influence in Early Modern Germany and the New World” in Germany
- Yitong Xin (College of Social Work) for “A Longitudinal Study of Resilience Among Participants Attending Ayahuasca Retreats in Costa Rica” in Costa Rica
Undergraduate Student Research
- Vivian Corey (Department of Dance) for “Dance Denmark” in Denmark
- Stephanie Fannin (Department of Anthropology) for “Effects of Infant Growth Perception on Maternal Complementary Feeding Decisions in the Urban Amazon” in Belém, Pará, Brazil
- Abbey Malec-Kenyon (Department of Dance) for “Ecosystems: Art Existing within the Natural World and Human Experience” in Denmark