The Global Asias Grants Committee is pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of the Global Asias Interdisciplinary Pedagogy Grant for Spring 2022. The recipients and their advisors come from all three Rutgers campuses, across fields from Childhood Studies and Geography to History and Education with projects ranging from a podcast on Dotbusters to Global Indigeneity and Youth Movements in South Asia. Congratulations to Kiran, Smruthi, Eri and Rashmi!
Kiran Baldeo, History at RU-NB
Project: Dotbusters: a documentary podcast
Faculty: Gaiutra Bahadur, Department of Arts, Culture, and Media, RU-Newark with the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice and Newest Americans
Smruthi Bala Kannan, Childhood Studies, RU-Camden
Project: Cities, SAS Signature Course: Urban Youth, Urban Risk
Faculty: Asher Ghertner, Department of Geography, RU-NB
Eri Kitada, History, RU-NB
Project: Asia-Pacific in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Colonialism and War
Faculty: Haruko Wakabayashi, Asian Languages and Cultures, RU-NB
Rashmi Kumari, Childhood Studies, RU-Camden
Project: Global Indigeneity and Youth Movements in South Asia
Faculty: Karishma Desai, Graduate School of Education, RU-NB