College & Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

What are the limits of Puerto Rican nationalism?

Archaeological excavations at San Jacinto, an ancient temple from the Formative Period on the Peruvian central coast (1500 B.C.), have revealed the architectural design of an important section of the monument.

I study the interaction of state capacity and an underexplored religious institution – religious cults that center around one figure of authority.

Nicaraguan activist and previous Sandinista commander Dora María Téllez and Nicaraguan human rights activist Ana Margarita Vijil will be visiting the UVA campus.

Benefitting from interdisciplinary methodologies of spatial analysis and digital history, my research tries to rediscover its history by questioning the economic, social, and cultural impacts of the slave trade on the Ottoman Imperial Capital.

Where did Britain look for its future as the British Empire came to an end in the twentieth century?

What can Gandhian ideas offer to a world caught in ever-expanding environmental crises?

Frances Bell’s research examines follows several thousand people who were taken as slaves from revolutionary Haiti to the U.S. by enslavers fleeing the revolution.

Changing climate requires resilient ecological systems, human communities, and built environments.

My project focuses on analyzing indigenous subjecthood in the Spanish Empire through examination of the Tehuantepec rebellion of 1660-1661.