College & Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Border control and migration are some of the most pressing issues facing nations of the world today.

My dissertation examines the often-neglected Aljamiado texts composed by Spanish Muslims during the sixteenth century.

This one-day symposium brings together UVA faculty, outside scholars of French politics from the US and France, a journalist, and a current French political advisor, to examine the significance of the French elections through the lens of Europe today.

The MESALC Spring Symposium Envisioning 21st Century Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies( April 6 & 7, 2018) looks to define the contours of possibility for revitalized Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies.

Across sub-Saharan Africa, heart failure has become one of the most prevalent forms of chronic disease.

An invited lecture series in the Spring of 2018, "Expulsion-Extraction-Extinction," will host speakers who work on intersectional issues of global economic, racial, and environmental justice today.

Spearheaded by the Center for German Studies and in collaboration with fifteen units at UVa, this year-long initiative will bring some of the top scholars in the field of migration and refugee studies to Grounds for a speaker series and concluding conference.

The Center's funds enabled me to present a conference paper based on my developing dissertation.

My dissertation investigates the visual and material culture of the California missions in order to understand the interplay of form and practice in bringing about religious conversion within a colonial context.

My research centers on a nascent collaboration between conservationists and Jamaican Maroons.