I am so grateful for the CCS Fellowship I received this year. This source of funding enabled me to carry on my fieldwork during Fall 2019 and to collect a wide array of archival and ethnographic material to complete my Ph.D. dissertation. I used the CCS funding to study China's ongoing agrarian transformation and its spaces. I traveled across several villages in rural Hunan to study recently developed high-tech farms, rural tourism parks, modern rural homes, and more. I collaborated with local architects, designers, farmers, and faculty members working on similar issues. Without the support of the CCS, I would not have been able to conduct this study on-site and share all this primary information with other scholars and experts
— Ettore Santi
Architecture
CCS Fellowship Recepient