College & Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Dr. Moutu will guide the work of UVA students enrolled in my Curating Culture course, contribute to the Fralin’s knowledge about their collection of Oceanic art, give lectures, and connect with professionals in anthropology and museums at UVA and other institutions in the region.

Rebuilding Civil Society, Embedding Democratic Roots will examine the processes by which advocates in Zimbabwe are attempting to rebuild a grassroots democratic culture.

Historians of science and technology describe a “critical movement” in the latter half of the nineteenth century towards a rapid reformation of nature that pushed the limits of representation.

Aaron’s project contributes to his dissertation, A Revolutionary Gospel, which examines how Russian writers transformed their Christian heritage into a new socialist religion while exiled in the US and Italy between 1905 and 1917.

Research looking at late nineteenth century uses of informal, marriage-like relationships to navigate changing economic contexts and divorce and inheritance laws in Mexico and Guatemala

With GGR support, I plan to investigate nineteenth-century Iberian and Latin American periodicals at the Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE).

This project uses the many religious sites in the red cypress forest of Alishan to investigate conceptions of human and nonhuman personhood in twentieth century Taiwan.

Historical records attest the Bight of Biafra as a significant European entrepôt during the Trans-Atlantic period.

This project seeks to revitalize study of the intimate as a critical site for the humanistic study of empire and its postcolonial legacies.

This project wishes to shed light on authors who have been purposefully forgotten from literary history (Suzanne Giroust de Morency, Elizabeth Guénard, Félicité de Choiseul-Meuse), who emancipated their expression on sexuality from the libertine novel and created a genre of their own.