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
Global Scholars
Global Scholars
Specializes in medieval Arabo-Islamic intellectual history and modern Islamist ideologies.
Specializes in the classic texts of rabbinic Judaism (midrash, Mishnah and Talmud)
Specializes in philosophy, religion, and ecology in South Asia
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.
Specializes in modern Jewish thought and intellectual and cultural history and Jewish life in Central Europe, Italy, the Yishuv and modern Israel
Specializes in Egypt, Water, Wastewater, Ethnography
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
Specializes in Early Modern Music and Sound in Italy, Early Americas, and Community Engagement
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
Specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century Caribbean literary and cultural studies, with particular focus on narrative innovations in the contemporary Caribbean novel.
Specializes in Asian regional affairs and US-Asian relations, especially US relations with China
Specializes in the religions of China, the intellectual history of premodern China, Buddhism in Taiwan, and Buddhist picture books
Specializes in medical anthropology, Native North America, Indigenous Studies, foodways, engaged anthropology, participatory research methods, digital storytelling
Specializes in Early Chinese literature, thought and social history; history of childhood in China; history of women in premodern China
Specializes in Mediterranean Art and Archaeology, particularly Medieval spatial practices, urbanism, community building processes and the material culture of Byzantine non-elites.
Linguistic anthropologist who specializes in the points of overlap between language, emotion, identity, media, and social power, Israel/Palestine
Specializes in emerging architectural issues in contemporary Chinese cities
Specializes in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Epistemology and Applied Ethics
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
Specializes in Persian Literature and Women's Studies
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
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
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.
Specializes in premodern non-elite Arab history, particularly people with disabilities, users of sign language, Romani groups (ghurabā’), craftspeople, and enslaved laborers and entertainers
Specializes in the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, Biblical Hebrew, and Senses in the Ancient World.
Specializes in modern and contemporary Japanese literature, and is especially interested in questions concerning aesthetics and cosmopolitanism