Specializes in Transnational German History and Culture, European Studies, History and Theories of Fascism, Democracy Studies, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Historical Political Culture of Green Ideas and Practices
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Global Scholars
Comprehensive List of Global Scholars and their Research Areas
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Religious Studies
Research Region:
Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in medieval Arabo-Islamic intellectual history and modern Islamist ideologies.
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Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in Contemporary Arabic Literature, Arab Feminism(s), Literary and Trauma Theory, Gender Studies, Queer Arab Studies, Autobiography, Travel, Fantasy, War Narratives, Postcolonial and Diasporic Literature, and Comparative Literature
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Religious Studies
Research Region:
Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in the classic texts of rabbinic Judaism (midrash, Mishnah and Talmud)
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Religious Studies
Research Region:
South Asia
Specializes in philosophy, religion, and ecology in South Asia
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Sociology
Research Region:
Latin America, South Asia
Specializes in globalization, with interests in trade and the political economy of development, gender and work, international labor standards and global supply chains; has conducted fieldwork in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Bangladesh
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Anthropology
Research Region:
Oceania
Specializes in long-term ethnographic field research in two regions of the Pacific island nation, Papua New Guinea: Orokaiva in Oro Province and Arapesh in East Sepik Province. Also specializes in global comparison of forms of the corporation historically and geographically.
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German
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in Drama, German and European literature of the 18th and early 19th, late 19th and 20th centuries, literary theory, and feminism
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Religious Studies
Research Region:
Europe, Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in modern Jewish thought and intellectual and cultural history and Jewish life in Central Europe, Italy, the Yishuv and modern Israel
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Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
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Latin America
Specializes in the history of science and technology within the early modern Spanish empire and its global colonies, especially Latin America
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French
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in modern and contemporary French literature and visual culture
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French
Research Region:
Middle East & North Africa, South Asia
Specializes in Comparative Literature, National and Cultural Identity construction in postcolonial contexts, Literary Theory and Aesthetics, Theory of the Novel, Theory of Postcolonial Subjectivity, Postcolonial Cultural Historiographies, Multiculturalism, Multilingualism, Cosmopolitanism, Identity politics and Gender Studies, Translation studies, and World Literature within the contexts of Literature of the XIX to XXI century, Mediterranean Studies, North Africa, Egypt, Mauritius, and Bengal.
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Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in Italian women’s writing, cultural studies and gender studies
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Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Research Region:
Latin America
Specializes in Brazilian Culture(s) with an emphasis on television, new media, and popular culture
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Classics
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in Latin literature of the early Empire, particularly the narrative structures of Latin epic, and the intersection of gender and genre in Latin poetry
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Women, Gender, & Sexuality
Research Region:
Caribbean
Specializes in the histories of race, gender, and sexuality in Jamaica
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Slavic Languages & Literatures
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature, especially the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vladimir Nabokov, Russian and East European cinema
School/Dept:
Classics
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in ancient Roman sexuality, education, and rhetoric
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Classics
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in the historical development of the Greek language
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Studio Art
Research Region:
Indigenous North America, Latin America
An Indigenous artist born in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. Specializes in topics of Latinx immigration, social art practice, cultural sustainability, and transborder indigeneity.
School/Dept:
Art History
Research Region:
Europe, Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in Aegean prehistory (3000-1100 BCE), ceramic analysis and technology, social aspects of technology and technique, memory and material culture, artifact and cognition, embodied and multisensorial approaches to material culture, the politics of the past, landscape archaeology and reconnaissance survey, remote sensing, LIDAR, and the uses of digital technology in the humanities.
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Anthropology
Research Region:
Oceania, Southeast Asia, East Asia
Specializes in research in the Kula Ring of Papua New Guinea but now extends that interest to its historical beginnings in East Asia. Structuralism, World-systems theory and Historical Ecology offer his theoretical focus. United States culture as a representative Western social system background his other regional interests.
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Anthropology
Research Region:
Latin America, Caribbean
Linguistic anthropologist who specializes in the Mopan Maya language and its relatives in the Mayan language family
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Slavic Languages & Literatures
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in Russian literature and the visual arts, Russian Orthodox revival, heritage preservation, 19th-century prose, cultural and museum studies, art and society, national culture and identity, and contemporary literature
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Classics
Research Region:
Europe, Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in ancient historical writing, chiefly Greek, particularly late Classical and early Hellenistic historiography, and the intersection of the cultures of ancient Greece, Egypt, and the Near East
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Anthropology
Research Region:
Oceania
Linguistic anthropologist who specializes in the Arapesh languages of Papua New Guinea and language use as a cultural practice, especially community shift from local languages to languages of wider communication
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German
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in the intersections of media technologies and environmental design, German cinema of the silent period, role of architecture and environmental design in the production, exhibition, and aesthetics of cinema in Germany from 1900 to 1930, media studies, environmental humanities, and disability studies
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Politics
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in European political thought and intellectual history with a particular focus on modern France, democratic theory, queer theory, critical theory, visual culture, and the history of the left
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Politics
Research Region:
South Asia
Specializes in comparative public policy and the political economy of development, particularly in India
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History
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Caribbean
Specializes in the history of British America and the Atlantic world; space, place, and culture in colonial North America and the Caribbean
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Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures, Global Studies
Research Region:
Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in Egypt, Water, Wastewater, Ethnography
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Politics
Research Region:
Caribbean
Specializes in Haitian political history
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Art History
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in Renaissance art, networks of exchange and trade, and the intersections of art, science and technology in the early modern period
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Religious Studies
Research Region:
Latin America
Specializes in the constructive contributions of Catholic and Latinx theologies to notions of justice and aesthetics to the life of democracy and issues of democracy, migration, family, gender, economics (labor and consumption), race and ethnicity, and ecology
School/Dept:
Art History
Research Region:
South Asia, Europe, Oceania, Sub-Saharan Africa
A historian of art and the British empire, specializes in a wide array of visual art from the seventeenth century to the present in the Anglophone world including the representation of Indian cave temples, the indigenous and white settler communities of southern Africa, the Macartney expedition to Qing China, and contemporary Aboriginal printmaking in Australia.
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Anthropology
Research Region:
Caribbean
Specializes in African American traditional midwifery, starting new comparative project involving English-speaking Caribbean, working on a pilot project to investigate meanings of vaccine refusal in 3-4 countries.
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English
Research Region:
South Asia
Specializes in Postcolonial Studies, World Literature, Global Anglophone Novel, Literary Forms in the New Media Age, Caste and Dalit Studies, Indian Ocean Literary Worlds, Literature and Human Rights, Technologies of War and Violence, Planetary Humanities
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Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Research Region:
Latin America
Specializes in South-South political and cultural movements, particularly among Latin American, African American, and U.S. Latinx writers
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Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Research Region:
Europe, Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in the social, intellectual and cultural history of the Western Mediterranean, including North Africa, from the Middle Ages through early modernity
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Music, Equity Center
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in Early Modern Music and Sound in Italy, Early Americas, and Community Engagement
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History
Research Region:
Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in Environmental History, Migration, the Modern Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, and Public Humanities
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Fralin Museum of Art
Research Region:
Indigenous North America
The museum’s Curator of Indigenous Arts of the Americas, she specializes in Native American historic and contemporary arts, especially of the Plains and Great Lakes regions, 18th-21st century American Indian histories and art histories, the material cultural expressions of sovereignty and treaties, and women’s art production (quillwork, basketry, beadwork).
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German
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in German, Yiddish, and comparative literature since the late 18th century, German-Jewish culture, literary theory, translation and transmission of knowledge and texts
School/Dept:
German
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in German and comparative literature of the late 18th, 19th, and early 20th century; contemporary German literature, Jewish studies, Black German literatures, translation theory and praxis.
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Religious Studies
Research Region:
Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in literature, religions, and history of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and the Second Temple period, intersections between religion, race, and democracy, and public humanities
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English, African/African-American Studies
Research Region:
Caribbean
Specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century Caribbean literary and cultural studies, with particular focus on narrative innovations in the contemporary Caribbean novel.
School/Dept:
Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy
Research Region:
East Asia
Specializes in Asian regional affairs and US-Asian relations, especially US relations with China
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Classics
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in late and medieval Latin, as well as Latin palaeography and manuscript studies
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
East Asia
Specializes in the religions of China, the intellectual history of premodern China, Buddhism in Taiwan, and Buddhist picture books
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Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
Middle East & North Africa, Europe
Specializes in medieval and early modern Euro-Islamic contacts, intercultural contacts in the premodern world, North African and Andalusian studies, world literatures and cultures
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in 20th Century International, War and Society, Cold War, America and the World, Europe and the World, U.S. Foreign Policy
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School of Education and Human Development
Research Region:
Caribbean, East Asia
Specializes in Anthropology of Education and Anthropology of Childhood, with interest in questions of globalization, early childhood, informal learning, and identity. Has worked in East Asia (Japan, Korea) and currently works in Haiti.
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French
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in Social and Cultural History of France (19th and 20th centuries), the history of French cultural diplomacy, Contemporary France, France in Global Context, French Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds
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Art History
Research Region:
East Asia
Specializes in World Buddhist architecture, urban development in East Asia since World War II, and cross-cultural issues in architecture and architectural interactions between the East and the West
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Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
South Asia
Specializes in Sanskrit Literature and Poetics, Paninian Grammatical Theory, Literary Translation of Hindi Literature
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in approaches to teaching world language, teacher education and mentoring, French for professional purposes,, instructional technology for language acquisition and humanities education, sixteenth-century French literature, history of the book in early modern France
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Anthropology, American Studies
Research Region:
Indigenous North America
Specializes in medical anthropology, Native North America, Indigenous Studies, foodways, engaged anthropology, participatory research methods, digital storytelling
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East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East Asia
Specializes in Early Chinese literature, thought and social history; history of childhood in China; history of women in premodern China
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Politics
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in childhood, education, and the family in political thought, relationship between familial and political authority in English and French political thought from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries
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Art History, Archaeology
Research Region:
Europe, Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in Mediterranean Art and Archaeology, particularly Medieval spatial practices, urbanism, community building processes and the material culture of Byzantine non-elites.
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Classics
Research Region:
Europe, Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in Greek literature of the Roman Empire
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Sociology
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in Social and Political Thought, Global History, Empires and Colonies, Nations and Nationalism, East-West comparisons
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Anthropology, Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
Middle East & North Africa
Linguistic anthropologist who specializes in the points of overlap between language, emotion, identity, media, and social power, Israel/Palestine
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in twentieth and 21st century French cultural history and film studies, documentary cinema, French national identity, changing attitudes towards the place of rural, colonial, and postcolonial spaces and people, questions of space, place, and viewer experience in contemporary French documentaries
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Architecture, Architectural History
Research Region:
East Asia
Specializes in emerging architectural issues in contemporary Chinese cities
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
East Asia
Specializes in China’s ethnic-frontier affairs in international politics, Chinese-American relations in the 20th century, East Asian international history
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History
Research Region:
Europe, Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in Jewish history, European history, International history, Human Rights and Genocide history, Legal history
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Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in 20th-21th century Spanish poetry, theater and poetic performance, Contemplative Pedagogies, Language for the Professions
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Politics
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in Russian foreign policy, Russian politics in comparative perspective, and relationships between international order and political development
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French
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in Modern Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory, Literature and Philosophy, Literature and Science, Animal Studies and Eco-criticism
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Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in Arabic syntax and morphology, Classical Arabic Poetry and Literature, Communication and Culture, Performance and Drama
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German
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in Comparative literature 18th-20th centuries, modern German and Austrian literature, women's studies, GDR literature, poetry, narrative and narrative theory, autobiography, cognitive approaches to literature
School/Dept:
Classics
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Epistemology and Applied Ethics
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Anthropology
Research Region:
Caribbean, Latin America
Specializes in the cultural forces contributing to the presence of human socialities, cruelty and its double, and poetics of severance in the Antilles and Amazonia. He has worked for many years in Guyana and Brazil with the Waiwai, Wapishana and Macushi
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Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures, Women, Gender, & Sexuality
Research Region:
Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in Persian Literature and Women's Studies
School/Dept:
Classics
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in Latin poetry, particularly its religious background and affinities with Hellenistic poetics
School/Dept:
Classics
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in Ancient Roman literature and its contexts, particularly ancient Latin garden literature, gender, and the poetics of commencement.
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
South Asia
Specializes in Modern South Asia, the partition of India, India-Pakistan-Bangladesh relations, foreign policy, education policy, memory studies, legal history, and oral histor
School/Dept:
Religious Studies, Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
Central Asia, Middle East & North Africa, South Asia
Specializes in Muslim-Hindu interactions in South Asia, Sufism and Islamic philosophy, Qur'anic exegesis, Hindu philosophy and theology, and South Asian religious literatures, primarily in the context of the early modern period, but also including the medieval period
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
South Asia
Specializes in Indian religions and South Asian intellectual, religious, and cultural history, particularly the philosophy and religious and narrative literatures of the Kashmir Valley of the ninth to twelfth centuries
School/Dept:
Media Studies
Research Region:
Latin America
Specializes in the intersection of Anthropology of Technology, Science and Technology Studies (STS), Information Anthropology, ICT for Development (ICT4D), and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and is an ethnographer with fieldwork experience in Havana, Cuba, Guadalajara, Mexico, the favelas of Vitória, Brazil, and in the Appalachian region of eastern Kentucky
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in Eighteenth Century Atlantic World, British Empire
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Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Research Region:
Latin America, Europe
Specializes in Colonial and 19th Century Latin American Literature, and Spanish and Latin American Poetry
School/Dept:
History, Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation, Global Affairs
Research Region:
Latin America
Specializes in social and political themes in 20th century Brazil; colonial legal history in Mexico among Indigenous people; economic and social history in colonial Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil framed in global terms; comparative legal history in the Western hemisphere. Has taught Global History, spanning 1492 to the present, and is currently teaching global Climate Change as an ethical engagement in the College Fellows program. Has co-directed the Yamuna River Project. Currently involved with Indigenous Studies at UVa and the Democratic Futures Working Group, thinking about democracy in global context.
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Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Research Region:
Southeast Asia, East Asia, Latin America, Europe
Specializes in the literature and culture of the early modern Hispanic world, particularly questions of empire, space, and cartography, including the role of the Pacific and Asia in Spanish concepts of the New World.
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in History of Science, History of Mathematics, particularly in North America and Europe
School/Dept:
Classics
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in Greek epigraphy, Greek religion, and Greek culture and literature, particularly epigram, elegy, and Greek inscriptional poetry
School/Dept:
Art History
Research Region:
Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in Islamic Art and Material Culture, textiles in particular.
School/Dept:
English
Research Region:
Caribbean, Europe, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Specializes in Poetry, World Anglophone Literatures, Modern & Contemporary, Modernism, Postcolonial, African, Caribbean, Indian, 20th C American, 20th C Irish, 20th C British
School/Dept:
Art History
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in the theological, philosophical, and scientific ideas that informed the creative decisions of artists living in eastern and western medieval cultures from the third to fifteenth centuries. Research foci: Carolingian manuscript illumination, Norman computus, and late medieval astronomy (in Prague and Vienna)
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Architectural History
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in the history of medieval visual culture in England, France and Italy
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Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in premodern non-elite Arab history, particularly people with disabilities, users of sign language, Romani groups (ghurabā’), craftspeople, and enslaved laborers and entertainers
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English
Research Region:
Caribbean
Specializes in Multiethnic American, Jewish, Caribbean, Postcolonial, Gender and Sexuality Studies in Literature
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History
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in Russia/USSR, Modern Europe, Communism, Genocide
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Politics
Research Region:
Europe, East Asia, Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in comparative budgetary, fiscal, and macroeconomic policy, with an emphasis on the United States, the European Union, Iraq, and Japan
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Religious Studies
Research Region:
Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, Biblical Hebrew, and Senses in the Ancient World.
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
East Asia
Specializes in Modern Korea, Japanese Empire, East Asian Environmental History, Borderlands and Historical Geography
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in 20th & 21st Century French literature and Cultural Studies from the Revolution to present, Digital Humanities, teaching with technology, e-portfolios in second language acquisition, Visual Studies
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Caribbean, Latin America
Specializes in capitalism, the environment, and science and technology, current research examines the American sugar empire of the late nineteenth century, showing how corruption and monopoly power in the United States were shaped by struggles for control of labor and nature in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawai'i
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Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Research Region:
Europe
Specializes in romantic poetics, periodical press, and Catalan nationalist discourse in 19th century Spain
School/Dept:
Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
South Asia, Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in Middle East studies, South Asia studies, world film history, sound studies, visual culture, postcolonial theory, and contemporary literature
School/Dept:
Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy
Research Region:
Latin America
Specializes in health policy in the U.S and Latin America
School/Dept:
Anthropology
Research Region:
Southeast Asia
Cultural anthropologist who specializes in the interactions between globally circulating ideologies of improvement around health and governance and on-the-ground ethics of care in family intimacies in Indonesia, most notably in connection to anti-corruption efforts and HIV-related LGBTQ activism.
School/Dept:
Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs
Research Region:
Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in the development and disintegration of complex, state-level societies, and long-term sociocultural dynamics, centered on the ancient Near East and northern Mesopotamia, specifically southeastern Turkey and northern Syria, ancient food production systems, long-term environmental change, and the so-called collapse of some of the world’s first states at the end of the Early Bronze Age (ca. 2200 BCE)
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Sociology
Research Region:
East Asia
Specializes in the analysis of state-market relations, the sociology of the bureaucratic state, development, corruption, and the rise of global China
School/Dept:
Anthropology
Research Region:
Middle East & North Africa
Specializes in the archeology of large-scale societies, particularly those in the ancient Middle East
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Art History
Research Region:
East Asia
Specializes in Buddhist art of Medieval China
School/Dept:
East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East Asia
Specializes in modern and contemporary Japanese literature, and is especially interested in questions concerning aesthetics and cosmopolitanism
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
East Asia
Specializes in Imperial China, especially the Song dynasty (960-1279), culture and society, family, filial piety, biji writing, literati culture, cultural geography
