Featured Projects

New Kid: The Integration of Woodberry Forest School

How democratic decisions can fail to reach the smaller corners of the nation

God’s Economics, Not Reaganomics: The Detroit Mix

God’s Economics, Not Reaganomics: The Detroit Mix

The art of bringing people together through music and faith at a time when the media declared Detroit a "dead" city

How Lyric Moves and Morphs: Qawwali Music in Pakistan

How Lyric Moves and Morphs: Qawwali Music in Pakistan

The significance of Qawwali in the everyday life of a Pakistani

The Divine Feminine in Hindu Ecology

The Divine Feminine in Hindu Ecology

How cultural context can lead to a more thorough understanding of the ecofeminist movement in South Asia

Słabe Jajko

Słabe Jajko

Sometimes we must remember precisely so that others may forget

New Kid: The Integration of Woodberry Forest School

How democratic decisions can fail to reach the smaller corners of the nation

God’s Economics, Not Reaganomics: The Detroit Mix

The art of bringing people together through music and faith at a time when the media declared Detroit a "dead" city

How Lyric Moves and Morphs: Qawwali Music in Pakistan

The significance of Qawwali in the everyday life of a Pakistani

The Divine Feminine in Hindu Ecology

How cultural context can lead to a more thorough understanding of the ecofeminist movement in South Asia

Słabe Jajko

Sometimes we must remember precisely so that others may forget

Black Church

Repairing the Breach: Pandemic, Protests, and the Polls

Repairing the Breach: Pandemic, Protests, and the Polls

Indigenous Culture

Pamunkey: Fractures and Reconstruction of Memory

Pamunkey: Fractures and Reconstruction of Memory

Indigenous Culture

Tsenacommacah

Tsenacommacah

A Powhatan Creation Story

Black Radical Traditions

Collective Care in a Sick Society

Collective Care in a Sick Society

Reparations

Reparations: What UVA Owes

Reparations: What UVA Owes

Is the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers enough?

India

A Yoga Guru of the Modern Era: The Politics of Preserving Tradition

A Yoga Guru of the Modern Era: The Politics of Preserving Tradition

Baba Ramdev recognized a need for ancient traditions like Yoga and Ayurveda to modernize if they wanted to stay alive

Monuments

Afterlives in Stone

Afterlives in Stone

The complexity of honoring both the presence and erasure of enslaved laborers at the University of Virginia

Buddhism

Tibet’s First Female Philosophers

Tibet’s First Female Philosophers

Khenmo Lhakyi’s story is not only one of overcoming hardships, but of institutional transformation

Activism

Escaping Colonialism: The Story of Blatta Gebre Egziabeher

Escaping Colonialism: The Story of Blatta Gebre Egziabeher

How Blatta Gebre Egziabeher went from being the model colonial subject to a prominent anticolonial figure

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