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International Research and Scholarship Grant

Competition Cycle

The next competition cycle will take place in Spring 2025.

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:

Deadlines

  • Proposals due: To be announced

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 “Internship in Biomedical Engineering at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory” in Braga, Portugal
  • 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