Humanities

This dissertation explores how music and musical performances are used to mediate trauma and memory, and the influence that these mediations have on identities at individual and community levels.

My work approaches Tibetan migration to India in the second half of the twentieth century through the longer history of lay and monastic movement in the region to ask new questions of nationalism and bureaucratic regimes of citizenship in South Asia.

My project explores the creation of sacred space and the treatment of 'special dead' (victims of the plague and leprosy) within a newly excavated cemetery in Late Antique Thebes, Greece.

Mr. Guoqi Xu is Kerry Group Professor in Globalization History and Professor of History, the University of Hong Kong.

I will be able to attend this course and gain key insight into the process of moving print editions to the digital realm, familiarity with new digital humanities tools, and information regarding copyright and distribution issues.

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.

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.

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.