University of Virginia, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

IHGC Fellows

2023-2024

Mamadou Dia

Assistant Professor, French and Media Studies

Kevin Driscoll

Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Media Studies

Natasha Heller

Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Religious Studies

2022-2023

Elizabeth Shanks Alexander

Professor, Religious Studies
Research Project: The Social Implications of Grammatical Gender in Biblical Law & Early Rabbinic Commentary (c. 300 CE)

Oludamini Ogunnaike

Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy, Religious Studies
Research Project: Dreaming Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: Dreams and Knowledge in African Islamic Philosophy

2020-2021

Sarah Betzer

Associate Professor, Art History
Research Project: “The Long Eighteenth Century?”

Allison Bigelow

Tom Scully Discovery Chair Associate Professor of Spanish, Spanish
Research Project: “Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World”

Ari Blatt

Associate Professor, French
Research Project: “State of Place, State of Mind: Vernacular Landscapes in Contemporary French Photography”

Tessa Farmer

Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Language and Cultures, and Global Studies
Research Project: “Cairo’s Sabils: Gifting Water”

Kasey Jernigan

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and American Studies, Anthropology & American Studies
Research Project: “Mapping Indigenous/UVA Relations”

Neeti Nair

Associate Professor, History
Research Project: “India’s Partition: Literature, Culture, Politics”

Michael Puri

Associate Professor, Music
Research Project: “Mimetic Musical Modernism: The Case of Maurice Ravel”

China Scherz

Associate Professor, Anthropology
Research Project: “Not Me: Addiction, Release, and Response in Central Uganda"

Joshua M. White

Associate Professor, History
Research Project: “An Epic Tale of Sorrow and Joy: Slavery, Migration, and the Mediterranean Journeys of an Ottoman Manuscript”

2019-2020

Ahmed H. al-Rahim

Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Research Project: Mobility and Knowledge in the Mongol Empire

Fotini Kondyli

Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Archaeology
Research Project: Citizen Participation and Urban Planning in Byzantine Athens

Erik Linstrum

Associate Professor, Department of History
Research Project: Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of Empire

Giulia Paoletti

Assistant Professor, Department of Art
Research Project: Reinventing Photography: Technology and Visuality in Senegal (1860-1960)

2018-2019

Paul Dobryden

Paul Dobryden

Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages
Research Project: Energetic Media: Thermodynamics and the German Avante-Garde
Matthew Hedstrom

Matthew Hedstrom

Associate Professor, American Studies and Religious Studies
Research Project: Religion of Humanity: Spirituality, Politics and the United Nations
Aynne Kokas

Aynne Kokas

Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies
Research Project: Border Patrol on the Digital Frontier: China, US and the Global Battle for Data Security
Shankar Nair

Shankar Nair

Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Research Project: Hindu-Muslim Cosmopolitan Cultures in Early Modern South Asia
Jennifer Rubenstein

Jennifer Rubenstein

Associate Professor, Department of Politics
Research Project: The Politics of Emergency Claim-Making and it Alternatives
Samhita Sunya

Samhita Sunya

Assistant Professor of Transnational Cinema, Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Project: South by South/West Asia: Transregional Cartographies of Cinematic Action Genres
Jarrett Zigon

Jarrett Zigon

William and Linda Porterfield Chair of Biomedical Ethics and Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology
Research Project: Moral-Political Subjectivity in the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic

2017-2018

Nizar Hermes

Nizar Hermes

Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Project: Of Cities and the Poetic Imagination in the Premodern and Precolonial Maghrib, 9th-19th Centuries AD
William Hitchcock

William Hitchcock

Professor, Corcoran Department of History
Research Project: Refugee Century: An International History
Murad Idris

Murad Idris

Assistant Professor, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics
Research Project: The Travels of Islamic Philosophy: The Global Afterlives of Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, 17th c. – 21st c.
Krentz

Christopher Krentz

Associate Professor, Department of English
Research Project: Unexpected Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in the Literature of the Global South
Mobley

Christina Mobley

Assistant Professor, Corcoran Department of History
Research Project: The Kongolese Atlantic: The Central African History of the Haitian Revolution
Rogers

Charlotte Rogers

Assistant Professor, Spanish, Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Research Project: Savage Storms in Literature of the Americas

2016-2017

Enrico Cesaretti

Enrico Cesaretti

Professor, Italian
Research Project: "Telling Matters: Narratives of Ecological Entanglements in Modern Italy"
Crane

Sheila Crane

Associate Professor, Architectural History, School of Architecture
Research Project: "Inventing Informality"
Douglas Fordham

Douglas Fordham

Associate Professor, Art History, McIntire Department of Art
Research Project: "Aquatint Empires"
McMillen

Christian McMillen

Professor, Corcoran Department of History
Research Project: "Water Development in the Global South, 1960s to the Present"
Amanda Phillips

Amanda Phillips

Assistant Professor, Art History, McIntire Department of Art
Research Project: "Between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean: Silk and the Commerce of Fashion in the Early Modern Period"

2015-2016

Nomi Dave

Nomi Dave

Assistant Professor, McIntire Department of Music
Research Project: "What Good is Music?"
Nichole Flores

Nichole Flores

Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Research Project: "Guadalupe in the Public Square: Aesthetic Solidarity and the Pursuit of Justice"
Walsh

Denise Walsh

Associate Professor, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics
Research Project: "When Rights Go Wrong: Multiculturalism and Women's Rights"