Distinguished Professor Glenn Burger is part of a team that was awarded a €100,000 EUR International Network of Research (GDRI) grant funded by the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France’s most prestigious research funding institution.  

The purpose of the grant is to promote international, interdisciplinary research over a five-year period. The theme of the winning proposal is “Norms of Life,” and the network includes prominent humanities and social science scholars from Doshisha University (Japan), Harvard University, John Hopkins University, La Sorbonne (France), Oxford University, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (France), and the University of Cape Town.