Asia

Since the Fourteenth Dalai Lama escaped into India in 1959, three generations of Tibetans have cultivated land, established small businesses, and built administrative and monastic institutions in settlements spread over South Asia.

Xinyan conducts ethnographic research on closely connected Christian communities in Charlottesville, Virginia and Shanghai,China, to explore the intersection of religiosity, spirituality, morality, and mentality shaped by Chinese and American cultures and specific localities.

This research examines the recent induction of women in a hybrid police-military commando-training unit in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Pakistan.

Beginning in 2006, with the Jaipur Literature Festival, there has been an urgency to host literature festivals in all the major cities of India and Pakistan.

My dissertation investigates associations between geographic distribution (density and proximity) of licensed tobacco retailers (LTRs) and adolescent smoking in Seoul, South Korea.

China has one of the largest media markets in the world. But most media providers in China - including all television stations and cable companies - are state-owned.

I'm currently conducting ethnographic research in Kathmandu for my dissertation in Anthropology.

My dissertation investigates the dynamics of armed group rivalries in multiparty civil wars.

A UVA research committee will work Summer and Fall 2015 to initiate the organization and planning of a new UVA family of research teams on religion, conflict, and foreign affairs.

Students contributed to each stage of the research process, including conducting interviews and surveys in the West Bank with their faculty mentors during J-Term 2015.