Clay Faculty Fellows

2022-2023
		Ira Bashkow Associate Professor Project: "The Corporation: History, Culture, Capital"
		Sylvia Chong Associate Professor Project: Teacher Workshop: Introducing Vietnamese American Literature into U.S. K-12 Curricula
		Nomi Dave Associate Professor (Critical & Comparative Studies), Director of Graduate Studies Project: "Premodern Encounters"
		Katia Dianina Associate Professor Project: "Whose Heritage? Contested Orthodoxy and Memory Wars in the Post-Soviet Public Space"
		Paul Dobryden Assistant Professor Project: Film and Disability in Early Twentieth-Century Germany
		Mehr Farooqi Associate Professor Project: Hindustani Vocal Music: Poetry as Multi-Modal Expression and Knowledge
		Fiona Greenland Associate Professor Project: Archaeological Repatriation in Postcolonial Context: Partage in Jordan, Libya, and Syria
		Bruce Holsinger Professor Project: Premodern Encounters
		Fotini Kondyli Associate Professor Project: Sacred Landscapes, Undone
		Michael Levenson William B. Christian Professor of English Project: Support for critical research and creative development towards production of play "In the Net" in Manhattan and London. Play concerns vulnerability of refugees to the reach of power, nature of solidarity on the margins, and pursuit of safety and defiance.
		Xiaoyuan Liu Professor Project: The “Minority Issue” between the US and China in the Cold War and After
		Deborah McGrady Professor Project: Premodern Encounters
		Giulia Paoletti Assistant Professor Project: "African Photography: The Ethics of Looking and Collecting in the Age of Restitution"
		Stephen Parks Professor Project: Authoritarian Movements and Democratic Futures: A Research Collaborative of Academics and Advocates
		Anne Rotich Assistant Professor
		Jenny Wales Associate Professor Project: "No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone"

2021-2022
		Bonnie Gordon Associate Professor (Critical & Comparative Studies) Project: Justice Amplified
		Carmen Lamas Associate Professor Project: Latinx Pasados: Recovering Histories, Archiving Latinidad
		Shiqiao Li WEEDON PROFESSOR IN ASIAN ARCHITECTURE, ARCHITECTURE + ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY; DIRECTOR OF THE PHD IN THE CONSTRUCTED ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM Project: Asian Urbanism Collaborative (AUC): Launch, Website, and Initial Workshop Series
		James Loeffler Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies Project: Blind Justice: Antisemitism and Law in Postwar America
		Esther Lorenz ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ARCHITECTURE; UNDERGRADUATE ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM DIRECTOR Project: Asian Urbanism Collaborative (AUC): Launch, Website, and Initial Workshop Series
		Oludamini Ogunnaike Assistant Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy Project: Religion and Democracy on the African Continent: Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial Possibilities

2019-2020
		Allison Bigelow Assistant Professor of Spanish Project: "Decolonizing the Humanities: Indigenous Arts, Histories, and Knowledges from the Material to the Screen"

2018_2019
		Phoebe Crisman Associate Professor Project: "Collaboratively Creating a Sustainable Cultural Center with the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate"
		Douglas Fordham Associate Professor Project: "Decolonizing the Humanities: Indigenous Arts, Histories, and Knowledges from the Material to the Screen"
		Adrienne Ghaly Postdoctoral Fellow Project: "Burning the Library of Life: Species Extinction and the Humanities - A Symposium"
		Nizar Hermes Associate Professor Project: "Of Cities and the Literary Imagination in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World"
		Alison Levine Associate Professor Project: A public discussion of cinema with Antoine de Baecque
		Allison Pugh Professor Project: "Global Ethnographies: UVA Field Methods Workshop 2018-19"

		Mehr Farooqi Associate Professor	434-924-4643 Contact
		Bonnie Gordon Associate Professor	434-924-6495 Contact