Americas

My current research is focused on collective action and informal governance in the COVID-19 pandemic responses seen in the favelas of urban Brazil, particularly in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

I analyze the regional cinema as an audiovisual text that denounces and reveals human realities forgotten or ignored.

Since 1986, Dr. Eve Danziger has been working with speakers of Mopan, an under-documented language of the celebrated Mayan family.

In a time of rising sea levels and global climate change, why do the arts matter after a hurricane?

The goal of this repository is to facilitate a deeper understanding of the artistic production of slums dwellers by speaking to questions of identity, race, diversity, and social justice.

This interdisciplinary and collaborative research program is dedicated to the study of digital technologies and their consequences for local democracy.

This in-depth qualitative study examines Korean-American immigrant families’ processes of meaning-making and action in relation to the formal education of children, and the role of a Korean immigrant church community network.

This ethnographic project investigates the worldbuilding practices of sustainable finance professionals in Germany and the United States vis-à-vis their legal and occupational constraints.

This PhD dissertation in Art & Architectural History explores the decorative arts and material culture of colonial Jamaica.

Coastal Futures Conservatory integrates arts and humanities into UVa’s Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) at the Virginia Coast Reserve (VCR).