Projects

These researchers, all linguistic anthropologists, pay attention both to major world languages like English and Chinese and to small, minoritized, and unwritten languages, just as they try to understand what is happening at micro- and macro-levels in all communities whose linguistic ideologies, practices, and institutions they study.

This research project investigates the use of contemplative Buddhist practices and their associated traditional, yet changing, contexts in Bhutan.

The students will form an essential part of KASP’s pedestrian field team during the first campaign, along with students from other universities, the co-directors and specialist scholars (see below ‘global mission’).

We are an interdisciplinary, international collaboration of leaders/ stakeholders from Winneba Ghana and UVa addressing environmental challenges facing West African coastal cities and wetlands.

The UVa Center for Social Medicine will bring together faculty and students from the University of Virginia and Mbarara University of Science and Technology to imagine a new approach to access to healthcare.

Overcoming historical discrimination and contemporary disadvantages, a powerful blossoming of writings by Tibetan women has emerged over the past few decades.

People differ on how fairly they think the resources are distributed.

My dissertation focuses on cultural production in the aftermath of the global 2008 social and financial crisis in Spain.

On June 28, 1941 Nazi soldiers literally paraded into Minsk, the capital of Soviet Belarus, and began posting orders around the city.

In many newly emerging democracies, incumbent leaders use their control over election administration to gain unfair advantages at the ballot box.