Americas

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.

The Digital Collection Launch of the Jamaica Gaily News took place on Nov 20, 2020.

This research will focus on the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America's XIII conference to be hosted by UVa in June 2021.

Critical to the success of global initiatives addressing surgical disease in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are not only efforts to provide surgical care but also to prevent surgical disease.

I plan to visit the National Public Health archive and the Hemeroteca Nacional de Mexico in Mexico City in order to review the registry of “public women,” a term which was used to refer to prostitutes.

Until now, ethicists have mostly told us what is right, while assuming that it is our responsibility to get there.

I will travel to Tepotzotlán to visit colonial and baroque art collections that portray skeletal representations of death housed at the Museo Nacional del Virreinato in Mexico.

My book analyzes the financial, ideological, and political investments made by a cohort of black activist-entrepreneurs, government officials, and corporate executives in black empowerment politics.