The Office of International Initiatives (OII), a unit of the Provost’s Office, has announced the 19 awardees of the 2024 Faculty International Research Engagement (FIRE) mini-grant. The goal of FIRE mini-grant funding is to provide seed funding for internationally engaged faculty research.

In this year’s competition, OII particularly encouraged faculty working in the social sciences and the humanities to apply; OII also received and was able to support excellent proposals from other disciplines.

Additional support from the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of the Vice President for Research and the Atlanta Global Studies Center allowed OII to broaden the scope of projects considered and augment the level of support for some projects.

The FIRE Speaker Series

FIRE goes beyond mini-grants, too: the new FIRE Speaker Series will highlight Georgia State faculty working in an international capacity. Open to the university community, the first talk, “Rap Narratives from Atlanta to Marseille,” is planned for Sept. 19 from 12 to 1 p.m.

Dr. Brennan Collins and Panther Lattimore, GSU student lead for the Atlanta Rap Map project, will speak about their work and its inclusion in the MarsTlanta exhibit in Marseille, France last summer. The event will be moderated by Dr. Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey, professor of Africana Studies and co-director for the Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni (CASA).

The Atlanta Rap Map project is part of the Mapping Atlanta Project Lab of Georgia State’s Experiential, Project-Based, Interdisciplinary (EPIC) program.

2024 FIRE Mini-Grant Awardees

Steven Black
Anthropology
“Economic Imperialism, American Anthropology and the Race Concept in Costa Rica in the 20th Century”

Gina Caison
English
“Tears Over Fallen Hungary: Transnational Questions of Region and Belonging”

Kali Cape
Religious Studies
“Consorts in Tibet”

Florian Enescu
Math and Statistics
“Combinatorial Invariants in Prime Characteristic Commutative Algebra”

Harcourt Fuller
History
“Commemorating A Jamaican Heroine: The Queen Nanny of the Maroons Festival”

Gary Hastings
Physics and Astronomy
“A German-American Photosynthesis Research Collaborative”

Ramesh Mani
Physics and Astronomy
“Flatland Science in Two Dimensional Electronic Systems”

Jessica Marcus
Nursing
“The Experiences of Nurses while Providing Perinatal Care Abroad”

Heather Offut
Psychology
“Artificial Intelligence in Eyewitness Identification”

Susan Reid
School of Film, Media and Theater
“On Camera + Audition Ready: Advancing International Connections with Shine Retreats in Umbria, Italy”

Ryan Rowberry
School of Law
“Cultural Heritage Law and Climate Change in the Mediterranean”

Louis Ruprecht
Anthropology
“The Renaissance Sappho”

Pejman Sanaeii
Mathematics and Statistics
“Mathematical Modeling of Membrane Filtration”

Rosita Scerbo
Institute for Women
“Gender and Sexuality Studies and World Languages and Culture, Afro-Feminism and Visual Culture in Rio de Janeiro: A Collaborative Research and Cultural Exchange Initiative”

Nicola Sharratt
Anthropology
“Peru’s Pompeii: Community Archaeology at Estagagache”

Ruth Stanford
School of Art and Design
“La Wayaka Current Artist Residency: An Expedition and Research Programme in the Atacama Desert of Chile”

Javier Stern
Neuroscience Institute
“A Collaborative Research Initiative to Study the Role of Oxytocin in Neurodevelopmental Disorders”

Jelena Subotic
Political Science
“Objects of Status: Looted Art and the Politics of Restitution”

Frank Williams
Anthropology
“Reconstructing the Ice Age diet of the Neandertals from La Quina cave, France”

For more about International Initiatives at Georgia State, visit https://international.gsu.edu.

–Jeremy Craig, Communications Manager for the Office of the Provost