Joshua S. Easter
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.
Africa
Anita Thompson-Heisterman
Specializes in the use of Appreciative Inquiry as an approach to community centric work in rural South Africa.
Susan Kools
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.
Amita Sudhir
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.
Christopher C. Moore
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.
Tania Thomas
Specializes in pediatric tuberculosis: epidemiology and biomarkers for diagnosis/prognosis
Marcel E. Durieux
Specializes in the teaching of anesthesiology in developing countries in Africa with work in Tanzania and Rwanda.
James Plews-Ogan
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.
W. Michael Scheld
Specializes in molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis, sepsis/septic shock, adenosine receptors, inflammation, innate immunity, anthrax, vaccines
Scott Heysell
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.
Joann McDermid
Specializes in nutrition and major global infectious diseases; HIV/AIDS; tuberculosis and other respiratory infections; Cryptosporidium and enteric infections
Milton Vickerman
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.
Caterina Krizancic
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.
Gerard Learmonth
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.
Steve Parks
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.
Chris Colvin
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.
Kelsie Kelly
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.
Mamadou Dia
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
Carol Mershon
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.
David Edmunds
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.
Jeanine Braithwaite
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.
Molly Lipscomb
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.
James A. Smith
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.
Garrick Louis
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.
Charles Mathewes
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.
Denise Walsh
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.
Karen Firehock
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.
Oludamini Ogunnaike
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
Giulia Paoletti
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.
Anne Rotich
Specializes in Swahili Language and Culture
Noah Salomon
Specializes in the intertwining of religious criticism, political aesthetics, and Islamic practice, with a focus on contemporary Africa and the Middle East
China Scherz
Cultural medical anthropologist who specializes in how people construe and negotiate ethical problems of care, Uganda
Lisa Shutt
Specializes in Francophone Central Africa, transnational migration, urban Africa, and national identities
Robert Trent Vinson
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
Sheila Crane
Specializes in the history and theory of modern architecture and cities, particularly in Europe, North Africa, and the Mediterranean region.
Jennifer Sessions
Specializes in Modern France and French empire, Modern Europe, Algeria and North Africa, comparative empires, cultural history, visual and material cultures
Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton
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
James Igoe
Specializes in field research on biodiversity conservation, community-based development, and grassroots social movements in Tanzania, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and New Orleans Louisiana
Noel Lobley
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.
Michelle Kisliuk
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).
Adria LaViolette
Specializes in Archaeology of Africa; Iron Age; Swahili archaeology and history; precolonial urbanism; colonialism; household archaeology; craft specialization; collaborative heritage management.
John Edwin Mason
Specializes in early nineteenth-century South Africa history, especially the history of slavery, South African popular culture, and the history of photography.
Isaac Mbiti
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.
Kevin Gaines
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.
Fahad Ahmad Bishara
Specializes in the economic and legal history of the Indian Ocean and Islamic world, including crossover in East Africa
James La Fleur
Specializes in Early Africa, Afro-Atlantic Diaspora, and Environmental History; Food Studies; Health and Development
Louis Nelson
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
Nomi Dave
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.
John Dillery
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
E. Michael Gerli
Specializes in the social, intellectual and cultural history of the Western Mediterranean, including North Africa, from the Middle Ages through early modernity
