Americas

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).

A library initiative that aims to connect directly with all UVa members who research the Greater Caribbean Region and Indigenous Studies in the Americas with the purpose of identifying, targeting, acquiring and providing books and other physical material published in geographical areas where COVID has disrupted the distribution.

With this funding, we will produce two Mayan-language editions of the Popol Wuj for our new digital variorum.

In low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC), frequent health care appointments related to untreated surgical illness can impede the ability to maintain employment and contribute to poverty.