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 Lives Matter

Staying Visible: North Carolina, Hate Crimes & Black Lives

Staying Visible: North Carolina, Hate Crimes & Black Lives

This podcast is the story of one small moment in a small town: at a vigil outside a Chapel Hill church in July 2020, a young Black woman was attacked.

University of Virginia

Student Self-governance in HRL at the University of Virginia

Student Self-governance in HRL at the University of Virginia

The University of Virginia takes great pride in a long tradition of student involvement in governing the university. How much weight does this put on students?

School board

Fighting a Confederate Legacy in Public Education Today

Fighting a Confederate Legacy in Public Education Today

In 2019, the NAACP filed a federal lawsuit arguing that the names of Lee-Davis High and Stonewall Jackson Middle School in Hanover County should be changed.

Frank Rizzo

The City’s Salvation:  Frank Rizzo and White Christian Nationalism in Philadelphia

The City’s Salvation: Frank Rizzo and White Christian Nationalism in Philadelphia

In Philly, we lived for a long time under the shadow of two objects, both dedicated to the same man, Frank Rizzo.

American Religion

Trads: Manufacturing Tradition in Catholic Churches in New Orleans

Trads: Manufacturing Tradition in Catholic Churches in New Orleans

How are the images, music, and material culture of Catholicism used to construct political attitudes and racialized ideas of nationhood?

Buddhism

May We Gather

May We Gather

Like so much in American religion, the 2021 Buddhist ceremony May We Gather combined elements of suffering, solidarity, and healing.

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