Jue Liang is a visiting assistant professor of Religion at Denison University. She is a scholar of Buddhist literature, history, and culture and writes about the intersection of womanhood, gender, revelation, and narrative in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist communities past and present.
I am majoring in Global Environments + Sustainability and Anthropology with a minor in Leadership and Public Policy. My interests range from environmental justice to women’s rights, and I hope to learn more about how many of the issues present in the world today are interconnected.
Myra Anderson is a UVA Equity Center Community Fellow-in-Residence, poet, and community health advocate. She is a life-long Charlottesville resident, and a descendant of the Hern family, who were enslaved at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and by faculty at the University of Virginia.
A.D. Carson is an award-winning rapper, performance artist, and educator from Decatur, Illinois. He received a Ph.D. from Clemson University in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design. His most recent album, i used to love to dream, is published by University of Michigan Press. Stream or download his music free at http://aydeethegreat.com. Dr. Carson is currently assistant professor of Hip-Hop & the Global South in the Department of Music at the University of Virginia.
Armand D’Angour is a Professor of Classics at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. He has published articles and chapters on the music, literature, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome, and has conducted research into reconstructing the sounds of ancient Greek music. Recent books include Music, Text, and Culture in Ancient Greece (OUP 2018, co-edited with Tom Phillips), Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher (Bloomsbury 2019), and How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking (Princeton 2021).
I am majoring in Political and Social Thought, with a minor in Global Sustainability and Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures. I study Arabic and French. My research interests include conflict resolution, transitional justice and conceptions of international law in the MENA region. I hope to explore intersections of state violence, migration, environmental degradation and indigenous substate actors. Fun fact: I work on a goat farm and gave a newborn goat CPR!
As a Fulbright scholar, Ilma Qureshi received her Masters from the University of Virginia and is currently a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies at UVA. Ilma is a poet, fiction writer, and translator as well. She writes in Persian, English, and Urdu, and her work has appeared in various literary journals. She recently founded a digital learning platform called ‘The Creative Room’ that offers interdisciplinary humanities courses and creative writing workshops.
Abigail Bradford is a student in the PhD Program for Mediterranean Art and Archaeology studying under the direction of Dr. Tyler Jo Smith. Her research focuses on ancient Greek music and vase-painting, and she is particularly interested in the innovation of “New Music” in fifth-century Athens and its connection to the growing democracy. She is also interested in podcasting and sensory studies and is currently examining ancient musical fragments and recreations of ancient sounds.
I am a second year student planning to major in Cognitive Science and Commerce. I am from the Richmond area, and am passionate about exploring the history of my home city.
I was raised in India, and I am majoring in Political and Social Thought. My specific interests lie in the intersections between religion, race and government in the global East, as well as how race and religion inform American democracy through American literature. I am also broadly interested in social movements—their origins and impacts. Although these topics seem disparate, I enjoy making connections between them in order to better understand the state of democracy in our world today.
Anderson Moss, a Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia studying Religion and Literature, focuses on blasphemy and religious criticism in the novel and poetry, with a growing interest in The Harlem Renaissance. He received an MA in Religious Studies in 2019 at the University of Georgia, where he wrote a thesis on blasphemy in Jose Saramago’s Cain and Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. When I’m not reading or writing, I am in the kitchen thinking of new elaborate recipes to make.
Jasmine Syedullah is a black feminist political theorist of abolition, as well as co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation (North Atlantic Books, 2016). She is currently Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Vassar College.
Photo: Karl Rabe / Vassar College
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