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
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
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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Anthropology
Research Region:
Latin America
Anthropological archaeologist who specializes in the rise of sociopolitical complexity in ancient pre-Columbian societies
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Politics
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in factors affecting the size and role of government in selected cases in Western Europe and also the United States, and how they influence conservative attempts at reform of welfare states
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
Middle East
Specializes in the classic texts of rabbinic Judaism (midrash, Mishnah and Talmud)
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
South Asia
Specializes in philosophy, religion, and ecology in South Asia
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Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in waste and space, memory and modernity in post-dictatorship Spanish cultural production, including photography, documentary, narrative, comics, film and television
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
Middle East
Specializes in medieval Jewish and Islamic cultural and intellectual history, and the connections between Jewish and Muslim communities in the Mediterranean and Middle East
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Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Italian Children’s Literature, Media, and the History of Childhood in Italy, Film Adaptation and Italian Cinema and Television, Italian American Studies, and Italian-Language Pedagogy
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Classics
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in the literature and cultural history of post-classical Greece, including the texts, treatises, and rhetorical exercises at the heart of ancient education, and how the various stages of schooling from grammar to rhetoric shaped the reception and literary criticism of canonical texts
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Sociology
Research Region:
Latin America, South Asia, Multiregional
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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Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in Quantitative Health Policy Research, Pharmacoepidemiology and Health Services Research, Social Epidemiology, Healthcare Outcomes Research, Global Health, all with a focus on Health Disparities.
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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:
Western 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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Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in Public Health Policy, Law, and Ethics and led university-wide efforts to develop the undergraduate Global Public Health Minor and Global Public Health Major programs.
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Art History
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in modern European art and art historical theory and methods
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
Middle East, Western Europe
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
Research Region:
Latin America
Specializes in the history of science and technology within the early modern Spanish empire and its global colonies, especially Latin America
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
South Asia, Africa, Middle East
Specializes in the economic and legal history of the Indian Ocean and Islamic world, including crossover in East Africa
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in modern and contemporary French literature and visual culture
School/Dept:
Sociology
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in a general theory of gender stratification and an evolving theory of gender and economic development.
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Slavic Languages & Literatures
Research Region:
Eastern Europe
Specializes in Russian and Methods of Teaching Slavic Languages
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Africa, South Asia, Western Europe
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.
School/Dept:
Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in International Development. At the World Bank, Braithwaite worked on social protection policy and poverty analysis. She specialized in the study of medium-income Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini), Turkey and the former Soviet Union countries. She provided policy advice to governments while on negotiating missions and staff visits, and her many World Bank reports include poverty assessments for Turkey, Russia, Armenia, Moldova, Hungary, and Ukraine, as well as social protection and labor reviews for Botswana, Kosovo and Eswatini. In addition, she has operational experience in Cambodia, Colombia, Nicaragua, Mexico, Jamaica, Jordan, Georgia, Mauritius, Kosovo, Bosnia, Romania, and Turkmenistan.
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Burmese (Myanmar) Buddhism, particularly Burmese traditions of meditation and, following from that, in the transformations of meditative practices (and the understandings of reality they convey explicitly and implicitly) as they spread around the world
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Latin America
Professor Emeritus who specializes in Latin American history, with an emphasis on political culture and daily life in the twentieth century.
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Philosophy
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in ethics and political philosophy, with particular attention to moral psychology and Aristotelian ethics
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English
Research Region:
Caribbean, Latin America, Indigenous North America
Specializes in hemispheric and transatlantic literary relations, literature and slavery, settler colonialism, and catastrophe in the Americas
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Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Italian women’s writing, cultural studies and gender studies
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Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in hospice and palliative care decision-making and outcomes.
School/Dept:
Architecture
Research Region:
Africa, Multiregional
Specializes in emerging fabrication technologies and processes of construction to create domestic and international disaster recovery housing for a broader audience. Director of reCOVER, a research project established to assist underserved populations through partnerships with humanitarian, community-based organizations, professional firms, and manufacturers. Has done work in Uganda.
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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:
Western 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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Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Environmental Humanities and ecocriticism, Italy
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English
Research Region:
South Asia
Specializes in postcolonial literature and film, studies of race, gender, and sexuality, and cultural studies, particularly the various theoretical intersections between these areas including but not limited to transnational approaches to the study of literary culture, aesthetic responses to globalization, modes of minority discourse, and borders and diaspora cultures, particularly in relation to South Asia
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Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
South Asia
Specializes in Urdu language instruction.
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East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in the literary and intellectual traditions of classical China, as well as broader issues in literary and cultural theory
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in translational research,
entrepreneurship, and technology transfer and founding program director of the UVA- Coulter Translational Partnership.
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East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in pedagogy of Chinese language instruction.
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in narrative medicine, reflective education for professionals, the moral formation of the physician, interprofessional learning, and uses of the arts and humanities in preparation for professional practice. Professor emerita of medical education and Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita in the School of Medicine. Has co-led a Seminar in Ethical Values for law and medical students since 2002.
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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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English
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in film, popular culture, and literature written by or about those of East Asian and Southeast Asian descent, particularly surrounding the Second Indochinese War and its impact on Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the U.S. Also focuses on transnational circulation of East Asian cinemas and popular culture and its impact on U.S. racial politics.
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Slavic Languages & Literatures
Research Region:
Eastern Europe
Specializes in the interactions between literature, philosophy, religion, and utopian thought and the question of imagined geography and perceptions of space and place in contemporary Russian culture
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Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in Program Evaluation Consumer Health Informatics; Biomedical Informatics Survey Research & Qualitative Methods Program Planning & Project Management.
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Africa
Medical anthropologist with extensive experience researching HIV and masculinity; health activism and community health governance; trauma, subjectivity and narrative; and the interface between communities and health systems in the context of HIV/AIDS, TB and maternal and child health with significant research in South Africa.
School/Dept:
Slavic Languages & Literatures
Research Region:
Eastern 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:
Western Europe
Specializes in ancient Roman sexuality, education, and rhetoric
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Art History
Research Region:
Western Europe, Africa
Specializes in the history and theory of modern architecture and cities, particularly in Europe, North Africa, and the Mediterranean region
School/Dept:
Architecture
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in sustainable relationships between specific cultures and built environments, specific challenges and opportunities found in emerging megacities and villages.
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Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in cellular and molecular mechanisms of Neisserial pathogenesis
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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:
Western Europe
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.
School/Dept:
Anthropology
Research Region:
Oceania, East & Southeast 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.
School/Dept:
Anthropology
Research Region:
Latin America, Caribbean
Linguistic anthropologist who specializes in the Mopan Maya language and its relatives in the Mayan language family
School/Dept:
Music
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in music and sound studies, law, and anthropology, exploring the limits and possibilities of voice, music, sound, and silence in political contexts. Previous research has been on voice and quietness in Guinea.
School/Dept:
Media Studies
Research Region:
South Asia, East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Asian American Studies and Gender Studies, particularly issues related to immigration and history related to people from East and South Asia.
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French
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in French as a foreign language.
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Africa
Mamadou Dia is an award-winning Senegalese film director, screenwriter, and co-founder of the production company, Joyedidi. Often based on his life growing up in West Africa, Mr. Dia’s films explore the tension between fact and fiction, realism and abstraction
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Slavic Languages & Literatures
Research Region:
Eastern 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:
Western Europe, Middle East, 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
School/Dept:
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:
Western 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:
Western 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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Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in the teaching of anesthesiology in developing countries in Africa with work in Tanzania and Rwanda.
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Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in teaching clinical reasoning, patient safety and quality, clinical research, brain injury,
prediction models, decision-making in the Emergency Department, pediatric trauma. Part of UVA's AMPATH Kenya collaboration.
School/Dept:
Politics
Research Region:
South Asia
Specializes in comparative public policy and the political economy of development, particularly in India
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Caribbean
Specializes in the history of British America and the Atlantic world; space, place, and culture in colonial North America and the Caribbean
School/Dept:
Global Studies
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia, Africa, Indigenous North America
Specializes in environmental issues as they intersect with culture, social relations, politics and community development. Has worked in various countries in Africa and Asia, as well as with Native American tribal nations in the U.S., with a special focus on Cambodia.
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Art History
Research Region:
South Asia
Specializes in Indian and Buddhist art, 16th-century Indian painting; early Indian sculpture and architecture; and architecture, sculpture, and painting of the Gupta Period
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Slavic Languages & Literatures
Research Region:
Eastern Europe
Specializes in theoretical phonology and morphology, historical linguistics, Slavic and Balkan linguistics
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in environmental engineering and water resources. Co-created the Engineering in Context (EIC) Program, in which he has taught engineeering students with a number of projects in global engineering development (e.g. in Yaounde and Bahmendi, Cameroon, South Africa, Guatemala and Nicaragua).
School/Dept:
Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in Egypt, Water, Wastewater, Ethnography
School/Dept:
Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
South Asia
Specializes in the literary culture of northern Indian languages, particularly Urdu and Hindi
School/Dept:
Politics
Research Region:
Caribbean
Specializes in Haitian political history
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Research Region:
Latin America
Specializes in the study of gender in literary histories, Brazilian music and nation, the representation of women and gender in picture books, and children's literature in general
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in literature and culture of sixteenth-century France and early modern Europe, gender, sexuality, and queer studies; women’s writing; and the history of religion.
School/Dept:
Art History
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Renaissance art, networks of exchange and trade, and the intersections of art, science and technology in the early modern period
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Africa, Middle East
Specializes in green infrastructure planning, watershed planning and stormwater management and global health and environmental ordinances. She has also worked with UVA projects in the Venda Region of South Africa for 8 years and has participated in other international strategy work for Middle Eastern Countries under a grant from the U.S. State Department.
School/Dept:
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:
East & Southeast Asia, South Asia, Western Europe, Oceania
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.
School/Dept:
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.
School/Dept:
Politics
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in media and politics, campaigns and elections, research methods, environmental politics, and the politics of food and is the academic director of the Morven Summer Institute, a member of the UVA Committee on Sustainability, and a co-leader of the UVA Sustainable Food Collaborative
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Latin America
Specializes in the history of traditional hallucinogenic plant consumption in Mexico during the colonial period
School/Dept:
Politics
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in public opinion and comparative foreign policy and utilizes web and survey data to test claims about group identity and inter-group enmity in international relations. Has published on East Asia and on the Arab world.
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in African American history in global perspective, The Civil Rights Movement, Black Diaspora Music and Cultural Production. Previous work includes work on African-Americans in Ghana.
School/Dept:
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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East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Chinese language instruction
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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
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Medieval and early modern French literature; manuscript and book history; readership; digital humanities; literature and war; writing and gender; literary interpretation theory
School/Dept:
Classics
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in the historical development of the Greek language
School/Dept:
Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Research Region:
Western Europe, Africa
Specializes in the social, intellectual and cultural history of the Western Mediterranean, including North Africa, from the Middle Ages through early modernity
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Nyingma and Bön lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, tantric traditions overall, Buddhist philosophy, and Tibetan historical literature and concerns, particularly from the eighth to fifteenth centuries
School/Dept:
Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
Western Europe, Middle East
Specializes in Transnational Studies, German Literature and Culture, Transnational Literature in Hebrew
School/Dept:
Politics
Research Region:
Latin America
Specializes in causes and consequences of phenomena such as corruption and clientelism, especially as relates to the historical experience of Latin America
School/Dept:
Media Studies
Research Region:
Caribbean, Latin America
Specializes in the role of media in identity negotiation among Afro-Latina/os, media-based racialization of Afro-Latina/os, and the performativity and intersections of race and gender, has conducted fieldwork in the Dominican Republic and New York City as part of a continuing ethnographic study on Dominican identity
School/Dept:
English
Research Region:
Indigenous North America
Specializes in state propaganda and material culture in the twentieth-century United States and teaches in the Global Commerce in Culture and Society track in the Global Studies Program
School/Dept:
Music
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Early Modern Music and Sound in Italy, Early Americas and Community Engagement
School/Dept:
Sociology
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in work, professions, workplace gender and racial Inequality, organizations, and quantitative methods and teaches in the Global Commerce in Culture and Society track in the Global Studies Program.
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Middle East
Specializes in Environmental History, Migration, the Modern Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, and Public Humanities
School/Dept:
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).
School/Dept:
Sociology
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in state formation, social theory, science and technology studies, nationalism, sociology of culture, archaeology, art/science studies, and ethnographic methods.
School/Dept:
German
Research Region:
Western 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:
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in the intersection of sustainability, design, and materials science and was founder of Engineers PRODUCED in Virginia, an initiative which explored the use of state-of-the-art online communication and collaboration solutions for the delivery of undergraduate education to underserved communities.
School/Dept:
German
Research Region:
Western 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.
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone Literature, Feminist and Gender Theory, Women’s Writing, Autobiographical Writing, French Language and Pedagogy
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Legal History, British, Imperial, and Global History, 1500-1850
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
Middle East
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
School/Dept:
English
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:
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in Post Transcriptional Gene Regulation and the Molecular Biology of Human Retroviruses
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East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Korean language instruction
School/Dept:
Anthropology
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in sociocultural anthropology; nationalism, ethnicity and multi-culturalism; museum studies; cultural criticism; symbolic anthropology; history of anthropology; anthropology and literature; culture theory; modern societies; contemporary North America. Teaches in the Global Commerce in Culture and Society track in the Global Studies Program.
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in French language instruction.
School/Dept:
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Asian regional affairs and US-Asian relations, especially US relations with China
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in risk and protective factors for SIDS, with particular attention to the disparities.
School/Dept:
Classics
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in late and medieval Latin, as well as Latin palaeography and manuscript studies
School/Dept:
East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in language, literature, and cultural history of Japan prior to contact with the West with related interests in gender, poetics, ritual practices, comparative historiography, and myth
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in the religions of China, the intellectual history of premodern China, Buddhism in Taiwan, and Buddhist picture books
School/Dept:
Slavic Languages & Literatures
Research Region:
Eastern Europe
Specializes in 19th-century Russian literature, Tolstoy, 18th-century Russian literature, medieval Russian literature, literary theory, language pedagogy
School/Dept:
Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
Africa, Western 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:
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB); pharmacokinetics; clinical application of diagnostics for TB; clinical trials to optimize TB treatment; chronic illness/ TB integration. Has field experience in HIV-drug-resistant TB-endemic areas, including rural South Africa, the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania, and Eastern Siberia.
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in African American history, American economic history, and the history of American slavery and teaches in the Global Commerce in Culture and Society track in the Global Studies Program.
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Western Europe, Eastern Europe
Specializes in 20th Century International, War and Society, Cold War, America and the World, Europe and the World, U.S. Foreign Policy
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in The history of East African religious movements; Indigenous religions, Christianity, and Islam in Western Kenya; Gender and religion in Africa; African indigenous religious rituals; History of religions, theory and method
School/Dept:
School of Education and Human Development
Research Region:
Caribbean, East & Southeast 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.
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Western 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
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Caribbean
Epidemiologist with expertise in maternal and child health, including research in the Dominican Republic.
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in molecular diagnostics, tuberculosis, and global health.
School/Dept:
Art History
Research Region:
East & Southeast 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
School/Dept:
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:
Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
Middle East
Specializes in Arabic language instruction.
School/Dept:
East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Korean language instruction
School/Dept:
Anthropology
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in field research on biodiversity conservation, community-based development, and grassroots social movements in Tanzania, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and New Orleans Louisiana
School/Dept:
Architecture
Research Region:
Multiregional
A visual artist, designer, and Associate Professor of Architecture and Studio Art who specializes in public art. Also teaches in the Global Environments & Sustainability track in the Global Studies program.
School/Dept:
East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Japanese language instruction
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Western 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
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in Environmental Ethics; Method in Religious Ethics; Religion and Ecology; Christian Social Ethics; Theology and Environmental Sciences; Theology and Economy; Food Ethics; Climate Ethics
School/Dept:
Anthropology
Research Region:
Indigenous North America
Specializes in medical anthropology, Native North America, Indigenous Studies, foodways, engaged anthropology, participatory research methods, digital storytelling
School/Dept:
Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy
Research Region:
Latin America
Specializes in how popular participation shapes the local policy-making process, including projects that focus on local electoral responsiveness and the design of participatory governance institutions in Brazil
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in social, political, and environmental history of land use, real estate, and racial inequality in the 20th century United States and teaches in the Global Commerce in Culture and Society track in the Global Studies Program.
School/Dept:
Slavic Languages & Literatures
Research Region:
Eastern Europe
Specializes in Russian literature and creator and developer of the “Books Behind Bars” program, in which university students lead discussions about classical literature with inmates at a juvenile correctional center in Virginia.
School/Dept:
East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Japanese linguistics and pedagogy, second language acquisition, discourse analysis, socio-phonetics, articulation and advocacy in Japanese language education.
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Caribbean, Africa
Specializes in Health Behavior and Health Education. Sexual Health Education. Community Based Participatory Research to advance health equity in underrepresented public housing communities. Culturally respectful research implementation in community and global health. Qualitative and mixed-method approaches to community-based issues.
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in North-Western Europe and the Mediterranean world in late antiquity and the earlier Middle Ages, with a concentration upon the period c. CE 700-950
Carolingian Europe; post-Roman Britain; the Viking world; early medieval diasporas; political thought and practice; historiography; travel, cross-cultural communication, and diplomacy
School/Dept:
East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Early Chinese literature, thought and social history; history of childhood in China; history of women in premodern China
School/Dept:
Music
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in a performance approach to ethnographic writing and research and in an ethnographic and critical approach to performing. Since 1986, she has researched the music, dance, daily life, socioesthetics, and cultural politics of forest people (BaAka) in the Central African Republic, and has also written about urban music/dance and modernity in Bangui (the capital city).
School/Dept:
Politics
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in contemporary political theory, especially issues in analytical and normative theory, and the history of political thought. He teaches courses in both areas: in the history of political thought, focusing on the liberal tradition and Greek political theory, especially Plato; in contemporary, in specific aspects of liberal theory, including problems of political obligation and the theory of John Rawls and Rawls’s critics
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Latin America
Specializes in Latin America, Chile, Working-Class History, History of Gender and Sexuality, Environmental History
School/Dept:
Politics
Research Region:
Western 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
School/Dept:
Media Studies
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in the intersections between Chinese and US media and technology industries
School/Dept:
Art History
Research Region:
Western Europe, Middle East
Specializes in Mediterranean Art and Archaeology, particularly Medieval spatial practices, urbanism, community building processes and the material culture of Byzantine non-elites.
School/Dept:
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia, Africa
Professor emerita who specializes in the health, mental health and development of adolescents. Globally, she has had adolescent health projects in Malawi, Hong Kong, and China.
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Oceania, Africa
Specializes in structural transformation and culture change in the Pacific during the missionary and colonial period and has worked closely with WHIL, the Water and Health in Limpopo research project in South Africa.
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Nineteenth-Century French literature and culture; French Cinema; the senses, olfaction, and perfume
School/Dept:
Politics
Research Region:
South Asia
Specializes in citizenship practice and local governance, with a regional focus on India
School/Dept:
Classics
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Greek literature of the Roman Empire
School/Dept:
Sociology
Research Region:
Western Europe, Multiregional
Specializes in Social and Political Thought, Global History, Empires and Colonies, Nations and Nationalism, East-West comparisons
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Western Europe, Eastern Europe
Specializes in Modern Europe, Cultural History, Nationalism, Cold War, European Studies
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Caribbean, Africa
Specializes in Early Africa, Afro-Atlantic Diaspora, and Environmental History; Food Studies; Health and Development
School/Dept:
English
Research Region:
Latin America
Specializes in Latinx writing from Early America- the nineteenth century
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Early Modern Europe, Reformation, visual and aural cultures
School/Dept:
East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Modern Chinese Literature, Non-fiction Literature, Independent and Documentary Film, Revolutionary and Socialist Culture
School/Dept:
Anthropology
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in Archaeology of Africa; Iron Age; Swahili archaeology and history; precolonial urbanism; colonialism; household archaeology; craft specialization; collaborative heritage management.
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Africa, Multiregional
Specializes in complex system modeling and simulation and current activity is focused on the design, development, and use of participatory simulation models, including Global Water Games; a participatory simulation of global supply chains for the apparel industry; an agent-based model to assess interventions in the provisioning of clean water to improve the long-term health and growth of children Sub-Saharan Africa.
School/Dept:
Anthropology
Research Region:
Middle East
Linguistic anthropologist who specializes in the points of overlap between language, emotion, identity, media, and social power, Israel/Palestine
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Greek history
and Roman history
School/Dept:
Architecture
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in emerging architectural issues in contemporary Chinese cities
School/Dept:
East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in pedagogy of Chinese, teacher training, curriculum design, and Chinese linguistics
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Modern Britain and British Empire; science and technology; war and violence; intellectual and cultural
School/Dept:
Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in environmental issues in developing countries and adaptation to lack of centralized health and sanitation services. Has worked in Senegal, Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Uganda.
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in China’s ethnic-frontier affairs in international politics, Chinese-American relations in the 20th century, East Asian international history
School/Dept:
Music
Research Region:
Africa
An ethnomusicologist, sound curator and artist who works across the disciplines of music, anthropology sound art and composition to develop a series of experiential sound events and international curatorial residencies. Through extensive fieldwork in sub-Saharan Africa, much of his creative practice takes ethnographic sound and music recordings out of archives for re-purposing back among communities.
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Eastern Europe, Middle East
Specializes in Jewish history, European history, International history, Human Rights and Genocide history, Legal history
School/Dept:
Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in 20th-21th century Spanish poetry, theater and poetic performance, Contemplative Pedagogies, Language for the Professions
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Africa, Middle East
Specializes in sustainability and human needs, engineering and social justice, equity in access to infrastructure services, and
diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM Higher Education. His research seeks to build capacity for sustained access to essential human services, including water sanitation and hygiene, in marginalized communities. He has published on development in Africa and in Iran.
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Latin America, Caribbean
Specializes in preventive cardiology, cardiac imaging, outcomes research.
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Caribbean
Specializes in a transnational approach to the study of Black Popular Culture in the Caribbean (Francophone/Anglophone) at the intersections of language, identity, and power, examining race, gender, sexuality, discourses on popular culture (Twitter, YouTube, TikTok), and the co-naturalization of race and creole languages.
School/Dept:
Politics
Research Region:
Eastern Europe
Specializes in Russian foreign policy, Russian politics in comparative perspective, and relationships between international order and political development
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Modern French Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory, French Literature and Philosophy, Literature and Science, Animal Studies and Eco-criticism
School/Dept:
Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
Middle East
Specializes in Arabic syntax and morphology, Classical Arabic Poetry and Literature, Communication and Culture, Performance and Drama
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in advocacy, political science, racial justice and equity, and social entrepeneurship. Her first book Brussels vs. the Beltway (Georgetown University Press) explored how advocates shape public policy in two of the most powerful political systems on the planet: the US and the EU. She conducted fieldwork in 7 conflict zones in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America for her second book Failure and Hope: Fighting for the Rights of the Forcibly Displaced (Cambridge University Press). The book argues we need to advance social entrepreneurship for the 60 million people displaced by violent conflict worldwide. The work inspired the launch of the Refugee Investment Network.
School/Dept:
Sociology
Research Region:
Eastern Europe
Specializes in Urban Sociology, Space and Culture, Social Change, Sociology of Religion, Eastern Europe and Central Asia
School/Dept:
East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Japanese pedagogy, curriculum, and instruction
School/Dept:
German
Research Region:
Western 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:
History
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in early nineteenth-century South Africa history, especially the history of slavery, South African popular culture, and the history of photography.
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
Western Europe, Africa
Specializes in Christian thought, esp. Augustine and the Augustinian tradition; religious ethics, esp. comparative religious ethics; religion and culture; religion and politics; evil and sin.
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in self assessment in the Italian classroom, ePortfolios and their possibilities, social media and their use in the classroom, Italian language pedagogy, Sherlock Holmes and mystery novels
School/Dept:
Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in African economic development with particular interests in examining the role of education policies such as free primary education and teacher performance pay programs, as well as the potential for new technologies (especially mobile phones) to spur the development process. Ongoing research projects in East and West Africa.
School/Dept:
Philosophy
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Ancient Greek Philosophy and has substantial side interests in Contemporary Aesthetics, Epistemology and Applied Ethics.
School/Dept:
Classics
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Epistemology and Applied Ethics
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Multiregional, Africa
Specializes in nutrition and major global infectious diseases; HIV/AIDS; tuberculosis and other respiratory infections; Cryptosporidium and enteric infections
School/Dept:
German
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Medieval German literature, German pedagogy
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in late-medieval French literature and culture
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Indigenous North America
Specializes in Native American history, disease history
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Modern Europe, Modern European History of Ideas, Historical Theory/Philosophy of History
School/Dept:
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
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in cultural psychiatry, ADHD, psychosomatics
School/Dept:
Politics
Research Region:
Africa, Multiregional
Specializes in intraparty competition, the dynamics of party systems, multiparty government, legislative politics, political institutions, and race, ethnicity, and indigeneity. Has published work on South Africa.
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Greek and Roman political and social history, especially as they intersect with (or are illuminated by) law.
School/Dept:
Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
Middle East
Specializes in Persian Literature and Women's Studies
School/Dept:
Classics
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Latin poetry, particularly its religious background and affinities with Hellenistic poetics
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in twentieth century United States and how organized interest groups and everyday Americans influence government policy and the terms of political debate. Teaches in the Global Commerce in Culture and Society track in the Global Studies Program.
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Latin America
Specializes in distributing HPV self-collection tests to women in Nicaragua’s rural Caribbean coast, as well as training providers to recognize and treat cervical cancer lesions using a mobile thermo-ablation procedure.
School/Dept:
Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
Middle East
Specializes in Arabic language instruction.
School/Dept:
Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
Middle East
Specializes in Persian language instruction.
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in sepsis pathophysiology with particular interest in the role of the innate immune system; sepsis pathophysiology, management, and outcomes of HIV infected patients in sub-Saharan Africa.
School/Dept:
Media Studies
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in transnational/transcultural fandoms and transnational media co-production and distribution, East Asian film and media, television, and videographic criticism
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Western 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
School/Dept:
Classics
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Ancient Roman literature and its contexts, particularly ancient Latin garden literature, gender, and the poetics of commencement.
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
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:
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 history
School/Dept:
Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
Middle East
Specializes in Hindi and Urdu language instruction.
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in enteric bacterial infections, principally diarrheagenic E. coli and Shigella spp, which are major causes of death and growth problems among children in impoverished countries.
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Caribbean, Africa
Specializes in built environments of the early modern Atlantic world, with published work on the American South, the Caribbean, and West Africa. His current research engages the spaces of enslavement in West Africa and in the Americas, working to document and interpret the buildings and landscapes that shaped the trans-Atlantic slave trade
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:
Global Studies
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in human rights, governance, the rule of law, gender, migration, socio-economic development, and social impact assessment. Co-director of UVA's J-term in Vietnam and previously served as academic coordinator of the Human Rights Masters' Program at Vietnam National University (VNU) School of Law, as well as director of the Center for Development and Integration, a Vietnamese NGO.
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Eighteenth Century Atlantic World, British Empire
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in medieval French hagiography and new technologies
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in the philosophical and artistic dimensions of postcolonial, colonial, and pre-colonial Islamic and indigenous religious traditions of West and North Africa, especially Sufism and Ifa
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in collective memory, critical theory, transitional justice, and postwar Germany
School/Dept:
Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Research Region:
Latin America, Western Europe
Specializes in Colonial and 19th Century Latin American Literature, and Spanish and Latin American Poetry
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School/Dept:
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in African Anthropology, Race, Sex, and Gender, Theories of Antiblackness and Anticolonial Studies, Transnational LGBT Human Rights, Afro-Diaspora and Afrofuturism
School/Dept:
Politics
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in international politics, including political Islam and transnational political networks.
School/Dept:
History
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.
School/Dept:
Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Research Region:
Latin America, Western Europe, East & Southeast Asia
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:
Research Region:
Caribbean
Specializes in community understanding of health problems, and how that understanding influences community solutions.
School/Dept:
Art History
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century African art with a particular focus on the early histories of photography in West Africa. Has done research in Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon and the Gambia.
School/Dept:
German
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in German as a foreign language
School/Dept:
English
Research Region:
Multiregional, Middle East, Africa
Specializes in the relationship between public narrative, political rights, and participatory social movements. Works with democratic and human rights activists in the Middle East and North Africa on research and activist projects, including co-founding Syrians for Truth and Justice, a human rights documentation projected centered in Istanbul and Paris and The Twiza Project, an alliance of MENA region university professors dedicated to supporting dialogues on human rights.
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in History of Science, History of Mathematics, particularly in North America and Europe
School/Dept:
Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
South Asia
Specializes in the collusive conundrums posed by bringing gender, nation, sexuality, finance, science, media, capital, and aesthetics together, and translated lyric and prose from Sanskrit, Urdu, Hindi and Braj
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Latin America
Specializes in leishmaniasis and immunoparasitology and has done research in Northeastern Brazil
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Caribbean, Latin America
Specializes in the contemporary novel in Latin America, literary theory, and translation
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Multiregional, South Asia
Specializes in immune mechanisms of defense against COVID-19 and enteric (diarrheal) infections
School/Dept:
Classics
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Ancient Greek religion, Hellenistic poetry, and the interaction between the texts and their historical, religious and social contexts.
School/Dept:
Classics
Research Region:
Western 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
Specializes in Islamic Art and Material Culture, Ottoman textiles in particular.
School/Dept:
Global Studies
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in the intersection of economic development and environmental stewardship and founded Key-Log Economics in Charlottesville and its sister social enterprise, Key-Log Economics Vietnam, in Hanoi. These consultancies provide “research and strategy for the land community” and help government, business, and civil society organizations achieve their conservation, sustainable development, and organizational goals.
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in Health Care for Underserved Populations, Patient Safety, and Alternative Medicine
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in breastfeeding support, adolescence, underserved and cross-cultural populations, palliative care, and home based care for children with medical complexity. Has worked in South Africa.
School/Dept:
Sociology
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in Economic Sociology, Network Theory, Comparative-Historical Sociology, Sociology of Ideas and teaches in the Global Commerce in Culture and Society track in the Global Studies Program.
School/Dept:
Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in foreign policy, international relations, and international terrorism. He has published on, among other things, the China Silk Road project.
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Latin America
Specializes in twentieth century Latin American narrative, specifically indigenista novels, testimonial writing and more recent indigenous literature
School/Dept:
Sociology
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Family, Social Inequality, Gender Studies and teaches in the Global Commerce in Culture and Society track in the Global Studies Program.
School/Dept:
Music
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in intersection between music theory and literary and cultural theories, nineteenth-century music, program music, French music at the fin de siècle, Schenkerian analysis, memory studies, Wagner (The Ring, Lohengrin, and Parsifal), the interarts, humor, and the analysis of music-text relations in art song
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in global health policy and governance, qualitative and quantitative research methods, international relations, public administration in low and middle-income countries, global health policy analysis
School/Dept:
English
Research Region:
Caribbean, Western Europe, South Asia, 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:
Western 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)
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Late Imperial and Modern China, Late Imperial Law and Society, Local Government and Administrative Practice, Cultural Revolution Studies
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Caribbean, Latin America
Specializes in Early American international/transnational relations, Atlantic history, race and revolution, Iberian empires, and scholarly editing
School/Dept:
Architectural History
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in the history of medieval visual culture in England, France and Italy
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Gene Expression; Human Endogenous Viruses; SARS-CoV-2 Protein Trafficking; Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics,dialectology, foreign language teaching and pedagogy, phonetics and language endangerment.
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in applied qualitative and quantitative strategies designed to assess and advance health equity outcomes through research, teaching and mutually beneficial community partnerships.
School/Dept:
Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
Middle East
Specializes in premodern non-elite Arab history, particularly people with disabilities, users of sign language, Romani groups (ghurabā’), craftspeople, and enslaved laborers and entertainers
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in the internal history of the Spanish language
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Latin America
A Latin Americanist and transgender studies scholar who specializes in the entanglements of transgender cultural production and activisms with histories of state violence and terror throughout the Américas
School/Dept:
English
Research Region:
Caribbean
Specializes in Multiethnic American, Jewish, Caribbean, Postcolonial, Gender and Sexuality Studies in Literature
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in 18th c. French Literature and Culture: Libertine novels, Theater and the poetics of Theater, Dictionaries, Pamphlets and Polemical Genres, Roland Barthes and other «French Theorists», Representations of sacrifice and self-sacrifice in literature, philosophy and politics during the Age of Reason and the French Revolution, (Mis)representations of America in French literature and culture from the 18th to the 21st century
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Caribbean, Latin America
Specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin America and the Caribbean, with a comparative focus on representations of the tropics in literature and culture
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Eastern Europe, Western Europe
Specializes in Russia/USSR, Modern Europe, Communism, Genocide
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in Swahili Language and Culture
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
Africa, Middle East
Specializes in the intertwining of religious criticism, political aesthetics, and Islamic practice, with a focus on contemporary Africa and the Middle East
School/Dept:
East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Japanese pedagogy
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Gallo-italian dialectology, French phonetics (articulatory and perceptual), phonological variation, historical linguistics, applied linguistics, languages in contact, French sociolinguistics, French lexicography and foreign language learning
School/Dept:
Politics
Research Region:
Western Europe, East & Southeast Asia, Middle East
Specializes in comparative budgetary, fiscal, and macroeconomic policy, with an emphasis on the United States, the European Union, Iraq, and Japan
School/Dept:
Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Region:
Middle East
Specializes in Arabic language instruction.
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia, South Asia
Specializes in the narrative and poetic literature of Buddhism in Tibet, India, and the Himalayan Buddhist Kingdom of Bhutan, and more broadly in the literary and religious cultures of Buddhism
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in cognitive and developmental outcomes of children with malnutrition and enteric disease around the world
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis, sepsis/septic shock, adenosine receptors, inflammation, innate immunity, anthrax, vaccines
School/Dept:
German
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in German autobiography, memoir, GDR literature, Lyric Judaic studies, feminist theory/ies
School/Dept:
Anthropology
Research Region:
Africa
Cultural medical anthropologist who specializes in how people construe and negotiate ethical problems of care, Uganda
School/Dept:
German
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in Contemporary German Literature; German Romanticism; Science, Media and Technology; Environmental Studies
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
Middle East
Specializes in the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, Biblical Hebrew, and Senses in the Ancient World.
School/Dept:
Politics
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in the politics and political economy of Japan in comparative context
School/Dept:
Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in questions of international security. Has published on, among other things, the nuclear threat from North Korea and Iran.
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Modern Korea, Japanese Empire, East Asian Environmental History, Borderlands and Historical Geography
School/Dept:
History
Research Region:
Western Europe, Africa
Specializes in Modern France and French empire, Modern Europe, Algeria and North Africa, comparative empires, cultural history, visual and material cultures
School/Dept:
Politics
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in intersections of political science, public policy, environmental sciences, and engineering; political economy of the environment; environmental attitudes and behavior; environmental justice; focus on China
School/Dept:
Architecture
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in examining dynamic cultural and environmental processes in architectural design, ranging in scale from human physiology to global energy flows
School/Dept:
Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy
Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in emission market and auction design, environmental federalism, and early childhood intervention to enhance school readiness.
School/Dept:
English
Research Region:
South Asia
Specializes in Multiethnic American, South Asian, postcolonial, and Global South literatures
School/Dept:
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in Francophone Central Africa, transnational migration, urban Africa, and national identities
School/Dept:
Religious Studies
Research Region:
Western Europe, Middle East
Specializes in early and Medieval Christianity; religious and cross-cultural interaction in Late Antiquity; biblical interpretation; theories of gender, sexuality and the body; ritual purity; monasticism and asceticism; book culture
School/Dept:
Anthropology
Research Region:
Latin America
Linguistic anthropologist who specializes in the Zapotec language of Southern Mexico
School/Dept:
French
Research Region:
Western 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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Oceania
Specializes in the engagement of Indigenous peoples with the institutions of art, with a particular methodological focus on the role of Indigenous communities in curating their own art histories. Curator of the Indigenous Arts of Australia at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia
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Art History
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Western Europe
Specializes in Mediterranean Art and Archaeology, particularly ancient Greek vase painting, the iconography of performance and the relationship between art and religion
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Africa, Multiregional
Specializes in sustainable point-of-use water treatment technologies for the developing world and their impact on human health, the disinfection properties of zero-valent nano-silver and nano-copper particles, organic vapor transport in the vadose zone, low-impact development (LID) teachnologies for stormwater runoff, the fate and transport of emerging environmental pollutants, the engineering properties of organoclays, and bacterial transport and chemotaxis in porous media. He is the founder of PureMadi, a not-for-profit organization working to solve global water and health problems by working at the interface of water, societal, and human health disciplines. He is also a member of the Water and Health in Limpopo (WHIL) program in collaboration with the University of Venda in Thohoyandou, South Africa.
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Religious Studies
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Christian Apocrypha, Apocryphal Acts, Ancient Greek Popular Literature, Religions of Roman Empire
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Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
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Western Europe
Specializes in romantic poetics, periodical press, and Catalan nationalist discourse in 19th century Spain
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Slavic Languages & Literatures
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Eastern Europe
Specializes in Polish language instruction and Russian and Eastern European film and literature.
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Western Europe
Specializes in Italian and Mediterranean visual and print cultures in the medieval and early modern eras
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Slavic Languages & Literatures
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Eastern Europe
Specializes in Russian language instruction and Russian culture and literature.
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Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in procedural competency, technology in education, “flipping the classroom,” COVID-19, emergency care in low resource settings, global health, climate change and emergency medicine education. Part of UVA's AMPATH Kenya collaboration.
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Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
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South Asia, Middle East
Specializes in Middle East studies, South Asia studies, world film history, sound studies, visual culture, postcolonial theory, and contemporary literature
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Media Studies
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Multiregional
Specializes in money and other media technologies and teaches in the Global Commerce in Culture and Society track in the Global Studies Program.
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Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in how identities are formed and performed in Greek prose, the imperial-colonial encounter between Rome and Judea, the use of feminist theories in the analysis of ancient tests, Greek rhetoric and historiography, trauma and mental health in antiquity, and the reception of Greek and Roman antiquity in American race formations.
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Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy
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Latin America
Specializes in health policy in the U.S and Latin America
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History
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Oceania, Western Europe
Specializes in British economic, US business and economic, and international economic histories and the history of Australia
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Research Region:
Africa, South Asia, East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in pediatric tuberculosis: epidemiology and biomarkers for diagnosis/prognosis
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Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in the use of Appreciative Inquiry as an approach to community centric work in rural South Africa.
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Anthropology
Research Region:
East & 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.
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Slavic Languages & Literatures
Research Region:
Eastern Europe
Specializes in Russian literature and culture of the 20th century, Polish literature and culture of various periods, Literature, ideology, and history, Soviet communism, The Gulag: Its history, literature, and propaganda
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Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs
Research Region:
Middle East
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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German
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in German language instruction.
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East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in second language acquisition, Chinese language pedagogy, teacher development, task-based language teaching, online language teaching and learning.
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French
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in the Enlightenment, especially Voltaire, colonial Louisiana (1710-1803), the satirical tradition, French aesthetics, and the history of New Orleans
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Politics
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Eastern Europe
Specializes in problems of disarmament, international negotiations, national negotiating styles, nationalism and ethnic conflict, societies in transition, politics in Russia and the post-Soviet region, U.S. – Russian relations.
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Multiregional
Specializes in Human Factors Engineering, Consumer Health IT, Culturally Informed Design, Co-Design, Inclusive Design, Mixed Methods, Health Equity, Community-Based Participatory Research
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Western Europe
Specializes in Hispanic linguistics, especially linguistic variation in Late Latin and Early Romance (Castilian, Leonese, and Portuguese), the consolidation of verb-object in Hispano-Romance, and the sociolinguistic milieu pertaining to the writing practices of the Iberian notaries of the High Middle Ages (eighth to thirteenth century)
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Sociology
Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in race, immigration, and processes of minority adaptation to American society and teaches in the Global Commerce in Culture and Society track in the Global Studies Program.
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Research Region:
Africa
Specializes in the dream of African American Liberation in segregationist South Africa, Albert Luthuli, Zulu Cultures and the making of the modern Atlantic World, worldwide African diaspora
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Politics
Research Region:
Middle East
Specializes in the formation of the modern state, the political economy of economic development, the politics of authoritarian survival, democratic transitions, and democratic breakdowns, the political resource curse, political outcomes in the post-Arab Spring Middle East, and the long-term consequences of labor-repressive agriculture in Iraq and the American South
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Politics
Research Region:
Africa, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America
Specializes in how liberal democracies can become more inclusive and just. Her current book project is on multiculturalism and women's rights in France, Canada and South Africa. She previously published on women's rights in South Africa, Poland, and Chile.
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Sociology
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in the analysis of state-market relations, the sociology of the bureaucratic state, development, corruption, and the rise of global China
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East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Chinese culture and language instruction.
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East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Chinese language instruction
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East Asian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Chinese language instruction
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Anthropology
Research Region:
Middle East
Specializes in the archeology of large-scale societies, particularly those in the ancient Middle East
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German
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in European Romanticism and Enlightenment, European Intellectual History, Media Studies, Social and Cultural Theory
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Anthropology
Research Region:
South Asia, East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in political economy, political ecology and environmental issues, historical anthropology, and science studies, kinship, gender, and sexuality. Has done fieldwork and archival research in North America, India, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
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History
Research Region:
Middle East
Specializes in Early Modern Ottoman Empire and Mediterranean, social, legal, and diplomatic history
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Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in corporate finance and sustainable business practices and teaches in the Global Environments & Sustainability track in the Global Studies program. He has led study-abroad trips to more than 30 countries over the past 10 years. A former Fulbright scholar, he speaks fluent German and currently holds a visiting professorship in environmental economics at the Technische Universität Dresden.
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Music
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in opera, classical music, and folk music of the U.S. and Europe
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Art History
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Buddhist art of Medieval China
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Research Region:
Multiregional
Specializes in Molecular and Signaling Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Plasticity
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Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in modern and contemporary Japanese literature, and is especially interested in questions concerning aesthetics and cosmopolitanism
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History
Research Region:
Western Europe
Specializes in modern world history, 20th century U.S. history, and American foreign policy. He has previously published on statecraft in Germany and Europe.
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History
Research Region:
East & Southeast Asia
Specializes in Imperial China, especially the Song dynasty (960-1279), culture and society, family, filial piety, biji writing, literati culture, cultural geography
