The government of Haiti has collapsed, armed gangs have de facto control of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and foreigners are being evacuated as the country continues its slide into chaos. Robert Fatton Jr., the Ambassador Henry J. Taylor and Mrs. Marion R.
Nearly half the world’s population will vote in major elections this year, casting ballots in at least 70 countries for every level of government, from localities to national parliaments and presidential offices. But not all elections are created equal, or fair.
South Africa was a major focus for Global Affairs this month with the visit of a pan-University delegation to Cape Town to explore new engagement opportunities, the appointment of a new Director for Global Initiatives who is exploring options for establishing a University office there, and the announcement of a major philanthropic gift that, when complete, will help support need based scholarships for at least 20 undergraduates to study there each year.
The University of Virginia’s Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs has appointed Tina Mangieri as the inaugural Director of Global Initiatives, a post she assumed on March 4. She shares more about her work and her priorities as she starts this position.
Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures Edith Clowes speaks about the Black Sea Symposium, her own research in the Black Sea region, and about revisioning its productive futures.
Rolando Vargas is a 2023-2025 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Global Studies program and the Art department. He finished his PhD at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2022 with the dissertation “Kuna Indigenous Media and Knowledge in the Darién Tropical Rain Forest.” He is also a media artist and has presented his creative work across the globe.
Phoebe Crisman, Professor in the School of Architecture and Director of the Global Studies program, speaks about a longstanding collaboration between UVA and the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota and their most recent work on youth education and tallgrass prairie resilience.
In a conversation with UVA Global, Lauren Miller, a professor in UVA’s Environmental Science department shares her work on glaciers, a recent trip to Japan, and the potentially massive impact of Antarctic research on the rest of the world.
Nifasha Diomede was far from his country of origin, but the course brought him closer to home. The second-year University of Virginia student was born in Tanzania, though his family moved to Roanoke in 2008.
When Colton Arney was a senior in high school, his English teacher told him about a program that would help set the trajectory for his UVA career. By the end of that fall, he had become a linguistics champion.
If a spoken language has few who can understand it, does useful cultural knowledge get lost?
As a scholar of Papua New Guinea’s endangered Arapesh languages, University of Virginia anthropology and linguistics professor Lise Dobrin can say with certainty, “yes.”
Building on a series of academic programs offered during the fall semester, the University of Virginia is creating more than a dozen new courses, seminars and discussions to help students, faculty and members of the surrounding community better understand the conflict in the Middle East, as the w
UVA Professor Syaru Shirley Lin asserts that China President Xi Jinping should encourage innovation and flexibility in China’s economy, even as he wrestles with many economic and political problems.
Belarusian human rights activist Volya Vysotskaia, Karsh Institute Practitioner Fellow and Serbian political activist Srdja Popovic, and UVA English professor and activist Steve Parks are trying to build a connection between activism and academia. They discuss their recent works and plans for the future.
As Richard Tanson, director of the International Students and Scholars program retires after 30 years of service to UVA, a look at his incredible career dedicated to helping international students from around the world.
For many years Professor Paul Martin has led a capstone experience to Northern Ireland where students study a community that emerged from a conflict that lasted 30 years & claimed thousands of Lives.
While freedom of speech is a core tenet of American democracy, it has long been object of intense controversy. When it comes to protecting free speech in practice, education serves as testing grounds
Schools, centers and faculty at the University of Virginia are arranging a variety of educational opportunities for students, faculty, staff and members of the broader community seeking to better understand the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
Muhammad Tayyab Safdar joined as a Global Studies faculty in Fall 2023. He is currently teaching about global development and perspectives from the Global South based on his research on South-South global development relations, in particular the relationship between China and Pakistan.
Professor Paul B. Stephan, an international law scholar at the University of Virginia School of Law and an expert on international business, international dispute resolution and comparative law, spoke about some of the legal concerns at stake in the new war.
Join us at the UVA Global Passport Drive for students, faculty, staff, and families! Passport officials from USPS will be on Grounds to accept passport and renewal applications and answer questions.
A University of Virginia engineering professor says relatively poor construction techniques and unpreparedness appear to be playing a role in the loss of life from a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck in Morocco on Friday.
Academic and creative writer Levi Vonk joined the University of Virginia as a Global Studies Assistant Professor in Fall 2023 and is currently teaching courses on inequality in the media and global migration. He discussed his research, writing, and teaching.
When Univerity of Virginia professor Mandy Rispoli and her Kenyan partners organized a workshop for families of children with autism in the growing city of Eldoret, they carved out two hours for the event.
UVA Today speaks to UVA's Dr. William Petri after his return from Saidpur, Bangladesh, where he and two doctoral candidates spent a week setting the stage for a hospital trial to combat postpartum anemia.
Fernando Operé teaches colonial and 19th century Latin American literature and Spanish and Latin American poetry in UVA’s Spanish, Italian and Portuguese department. As founder and director of UVA’s Valencia program, he looks back as the program celebrates its 40th anniversary.
UVA History Professor Chris Gratien speaks about his not-so side gig as part of the recording team for the Ottoman History Podcast, an alternative avenue for scholarly conversation on the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East, since its inception in 2011 and how it has enriched his own research and teaching in surprising ways.
UVA Psychology Professor Hudson Golino discusses his recent collaborative project with Professor Mariana Teles "New Tools to Study and Prevent Online Mass Manipulation."
UVA English professor Steve Parks talks to UVA Global about how his interaction with activists and advocates has changed his academic work and what he and UVA's Democratic Futures Project plan to do next to support and promote advocates for democracy.
Iranian American Professor Mona Kasra in the Department of Drama speaks about a recent UVA panel on the situation in Iran, the role of visual media in the crisis, how this impacts her work, and the role the diaspora and higher education institutions can play.
UVA Global caught up with Art Department Professor Federico Cuatlacuatl to talk about his artistic and scholarly practice and his ongoing collaboration with the UnDocu+ Collective, which included a recent event at UVA and in Charlottesville.
A record seventeen Education Abroad Programs took the University of Virginia students to places as distant and diverse as Argentina, Australia, Jordan, Kenya, and Vietnam, among other places for the first time since the pandemic disrupted travel in 2020.
Professor Samhita Sunya teaches and researches global cinema in UVA’s Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures department. She spoke to UVA Global about her recently-published book, her global courses, and her current research and other work.
The United States is once again weighing intervention in Haiti, a Caribbean nation of about 11 million people riven by deep political, economic and social strife.
