Clay Graduate Fellows

2022-2023
Susan Shoshan Abraham PhD Candidate Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Research Project: “Narrating Faith Across the Straits: Morisco Manuals of Faith in Tunis and the Early Modern Mediterranean”			Contact
Thirumalai C.A. Achintya PhD Candidate History Research Project: Practitioners of the Law: Legal Professionals in British South Asia 1770-1870			Contact
Mylène Freeman Politics Research Project: “Shaping Policy, Shaping Identity: Theorizing the Politics of Group Identity Through Education Policy			Contact
Lauren Mehfoud PhD Candidate Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Research Project: “The Poetics of Prohibition: Drugs, Race, and Politics in Latin America”			Contact
Robyn Morse PhD Candidate History Research Project: "Oceanic Boundaries: Transnational Merchant Families of the Persian Gulf"			Contact
Wu Qu PhD Candidate History Research Project: “A Cold Conflict amid a Hot War: US-Chinese Indoctrination Contest over the POWs during the Korean War”			Contact
Andie Waterman PhD Candidate English			Contact
Kevin Woram PhD Candidate History			Contact
Yuchen Zhao PhD Candidate History Research Project: Revitalization of Tibetan Buddhism and Identity Renewal and Maintenance in Northern Sichuan in the Early Reform Era, 1978-2000			Contact

2021-2022
Abigail Bradford PhD Candidate Art and Architectural History Research Project: The Sounded Past			Contact
Dijia Chen PhD Candidate School of Architecture Research Project: The Sino-German Exhibitionary Complex: Constructing Contemporary Chinese Architecture in Transnational Communication			Contact
Creighton Coleman Doctoral Student Religious Studies			Contact
Daniel Fishkin Graduate Student Music Research Project: "Dark Listening"			Contact
Lauren McQuistion PH.D. in the Constructed Environment School of Architecture Research Project: AFTER THE WHITNEY: TEMPORALITY AND IDENTITY IN THE SPACE OF THE MUSEUM			Contact
Bridget Reilly PhD Candidate English Research Project: Cholera’s Clock: The Uneven Temporalities of Race and Illness in the Nineteenth-Century American Literary Imagination			Contact
Michelle Walsh PhD Candidate Religious Studies Research Project: Contemplative Practices, Contexts, and Buddhist Values in Contemporary Bhutan			Contact

2020-2021
Daniel Fishkin Music Research Project: Collaborative project, "Hearing Trouble: The Dark Side of Deep Listening"			Contact
Syeda Haider MESALC & Global Studies Research Project: "Sabils: The Role of Water Sharing in the Urban Fabric of Cairo, Egypt"			Contact
Joseph Wei English Research Project: Collaborative Symposium: "Who Cares? Doing and Thinking Care in the University"			Contact

2019-2020
We'Aam Alabdullah Department of Architecture Research Project: "An Everyday Approach to Study Daily Life at Kuwait City's Alshaheed Park"			Contact
Cory-Alice Andre-Johnson Department of Anthropology Research Project: Anthropological field research on secondary funeral practices in Belo sur Mer, Madagascar			Contact
Thomas Antorino Department of Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese Research Project: “Feminine” Bestsellers: Gender and Modernity in the Spanish Woman Writer’s Short Novel (1907-1936)			Contact
Nicole Bonino Department of Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese Research Project: "Making Art in Migration: From the Italian Colonization to the Argentine Tango (1880-1930)"			Contact
Nyima Cape Department of Religious Studies Research Project: Tracing the historical unfolding of the body of Tibetan scriptures called The Seminal Heart of the Dakini			Contact
Vivien Chang Department of History Research Project: "Creating the Third World: Anticolonial Diplomacy and the Search for a New International Economic Order, 1960-1974"			Contact
Ariel Paige Cohen Department of History Research Project: "Cyrus Adler and Nameless Exhibitionists: Jews, Genders, and Museums in Twentieth-Century America"			Contact
Neal Curtis Department of English Research Project: "Forging Boundaries: How Literary Impostures Trouble Divisions between Manuscript and Print"			Contact
Rosa Hamilton Department of History Research Project: "'Solidarity not Surrender': Queer Antifascism and the Politics of Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Europe"			Contact
Casey Ireland Department of English Research Project: "Remains of the Hunt in Middle English Literature"			Contact
Fnu Kamaoji Department of Religious Studies Research Project: "The Death and Return of Female Revenants in Tibet"			Contact
Allison Martha Kelley Department of History Research Project: Researching the history of Latter Day Saints affiliation with the Republican Party			Contact
Kristen Kelly School of Commerce Research Project: Bring 2 Tony Winners to UVA to talk with students, Gavin Creel and Lindsay Mendez			Contact
Samuel Lemley Department of English Research Project: "Antiquarianism: A Seventeenth-Century Mode"			Contact
Christopher Luna Department of Music Research Project: Expanding research on the anthropophony (human-derived sounds) derived from spiritual practice of the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, Spain			Contact
Justin Mann Department of Art History Research Project: “Assembling a Monastic Landscape: Middle Byzantine Monasticism in Central Greece”			Contact
Julianne McCobin Department of English Research Project: Archival work in the Natasha Trethewey papers at Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library"			Contact
Astrid Lorena Ochoa-Campo Department of Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese Research Project: Dissertation explores representations of mother-daughter relationships in the works of women writers of the Colombian diaspora"			Contact
Najee Olya Department of Art History Research Project: Dissertation: “Constructing the African in Archaic and Classical Greek Vase-Painting: Images, Meanings, and Contexts”			Contact
Wu Qu Department of History Research Project: Dissertation explores American and Chinese POWs’ (Prisoners of War) experiences during the Korean War			Contact
Kevin Rose Department of Religious Studies Research Project: Dissertation: "Living Green: the Neoliberal Climate of Protestant Environmentalism"			Contact
Dylan Spivey Department of Art History Research Project: "Contested Classicism: Palladianism and the Invention of the English Baroque, 1715-1757"			Contact
Christopher Whitehead Department of History Research Project: Dissertation: Examines the transformation of the Lake Champlain Valley from a contested border between native worlds into an imperial borderland			Contact

2018_2019
Fatmah Behbehani Department of Architecture Research Project: Dissertation research on New Towns Initiative in Morocco			Contact
Joanne Britland Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Research Project: "La literatura de la crisis" - dissertation research on cultural responses to 2008 financial crisis in Spain			Contact
Swati Chawla Department of History Research Project: "Between Homelessness and Homecoming: Tibetan Nationalism and Citizenship in 20th Century India"			Contact
Alyssa Collins Department of English Research Project: The Charlottesville Syllabus re: interplay between local and global developments of and resistance to racsim and white supremacy			Contact
Bremen Donovan Department of Anthropology Research Project: "Filming and Adjudicating Policing: A Genealogy of the Fabrication of Proof in Contemporary France"			Contact
Andrew Frankel Curry School of Education Research Project: "Tibetan Extracurricular Education: Negotiating Schooling, Ethnicity, and Marginalization"			Contact
Neha Kulkarni Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences Engineering Research Project: Proposal for Residency on Hindustani Vocal Music: Aesthetics and Improvisation			Contact
Peter Miller Department of English Research Project: "Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, and the Global Blues"			Contact
Nathan Moore Research Project: "Global Charlottesville: Immigrant Stories" podcast and radio series			Contact
Ricardo Padrón Professor of Spanish Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese Research Project: Boxer Codex: Colonial Spanish Empire in South East Asia			Contact
Loreto Romero M-Eiroa Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Research Project: Case study on Fernando de Roja's Celestina			Contact
Tierre Sanford Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Research Project: "Accounts of Jewish Life in Minsk, Summer 1941"			Contact
Kelli Shermeyer Department of English Research Project: "Documenting Revision and Collaboration in the Plays of Thomas Kilroy and Marina Carr"			Contact
Michelle Walsh Department of Religious Studies Research Project: "Intersections of Buddhism and Psychology: An Ethnographic Study of Contemplative Practices in Contemporary Bhutan"			Contact
Linghui Zhang Department of Religious Studies Research Project: "The Sutric and the Tantric, and Beyond: The Mahamudra Discourse in the Twelfth-Century Hexi Corridor"			Contact
Jinchao Zhao Department of Art History Research Project: Dissemination and reception of the Buddhist stupa from South Asia to China between the third and sixth centuries, CE			Contact
Devin Zuckerman Department of Religious Studies Research Project: "Sanctuaries: Political Ecologies of Place in an Era of Global Change"

2017_2018
Sherif Abdelkarim Department of English Research Project: "artful Play in a "ful tikel" World - fickle, harsh, joyous - poetic hypocrisy in Anglo-Arabic Letters, 700-1400"
Cory-Alice André-Johnson Anthropology Research Project: Anthropological field research in Belo sur Mer, Madagascar
DeVan Ard English Research Project: Liturgical poetry in late medieval Britain
Nenette Arroyo Art History Research Project: Loca Sancta in the New World: Creating Sacred Spaces in the Spanish California Missions
Meaghan Beadle History Research Project: This is What a Feminist Looks Like!: Photography and American Feminism, 1968-1987
Meredith Blake Architecture Research Project: "Climate Change Knows No Borders: Adaptive Strategies for Relocation of Climate Refugees into Urban Environments"
Timothy Brannelly Classics Research Project: Dissertation on Ovid's treatment of Jupiter and Juno in the Fasti
Alicia Caticha Art History Research Project: "Etienne-Maurice Falconet: Sculpting Whitness in Marble, Porcelain, & Sugar in Eighteenth-Century Paris"
Neal Curtis English Research Project: Digital humanities - "Jefferson's Dual Monument: The Rotunda [Library]"
Claire Eager English Research Project: Research on early career of Edward Spenser
Anna Eisenstein Anthropology Research Project: "The Social Poetics of Pregnancy in Urban Uganda"
Kelly Fleming English Research Project: Dissertation research on ostrich feathers as accessories at the end of the eighteenth century
Andrew Gates Politics Research Project: Critically-attuned, non-imperialist, global discourse of human rights
Meghan Hartman Religious Studies Research Project: Collocation of Sanskrit poem "Meghadutam"
Austin Hetrick English Research Project: "Irrationality & The Contemporary"
Christian Howard English Research Project: Radical Translation: The Ethics of World Literature
Karen Huang English Research Project: "Space/time-bending the Pacific Rim and Ruth Ozeki's "A Tale for the Time Being""
Fnu Kamaoji Religious Studies Research Project: "The Death and Return of Female Revenants in Tibet"
Samuel Lemley English Research Project: Dissertation research in synecdochic function of printed facsimiles and reproductions in Renaissance books
Christopher Maternowski History Research Project: "Island Laboratory: Tristan da Cunha and the Development of Modern Science, 1873-1983"
Emily Matson History Research Project: Collective memories of Mongol and Manchu ethnic groups during Japanese occupation
Isaac May Religious Studies Research Project: "Quaker Mysticism as a Mediator Between Naturalism and Traditional Theism"
Sarah McEleney Slavic Languages and Literatures Research Project: "The Spatial Dimensions of the Soviet Literary Landscape: Litfond Writers' Houses and Travel to Crimea, Georgia, and Latvia in the 1960s and 1970s"
Nana Adwoa Ofori Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences Research Project: "The Impact of Civic Engagement Education of Youth Community Involvement in Ghana"
Xinyan Peng Anthropology Research Project: Types of friendship in Shanghai
Holly Runde French Research Project: Abortion in European cultural and academic language
Jeremy Sorgen Religious Studies Research Project: "Ecological Methods Lab"
Tracey Stewart Music Research Project: Music's role in mediating trauma among Jamaican Maroons
Elizabeth Doe Stone Art History Research Project: Cosmopolitan Fracture: John Singer Sargent and Anders Zorn, 1871-1915
Julia Triman Architecture Research Project: "Regulating Wildness: Planning Discourses of Weeds and Wildlife in Washington, D.C."
Chenyu Wang Curry School of Education Research Project: "Constructing "Bige": Volunteering and Youth Culture in Contemporary China"
Claire Weiss Art History Research Project: Field Excavation on Via Consolare Project and Sidewalks of Pompeii

2016_2017
Hannah Beaman Undergraduate, College of Arts & Sciences Human Biology Research Project: "Compañeros Training and Empowerment Project: A Partnership between Students and Latino Community Health Workers in Charlottesville"			Contact
Thomas Berenato English Research Project: "Research: National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth"			Contact
Stephanie Bernhard Research Project: "Environmental Humanities Symposium"			Contact
Jesse Bordwin English Research Project: "Summer School on Global Studies & Critic Theory and Research in Ireland"			Contact
Joshua Brown Education Research Project: "From Digital Humanities to Organizational Studies"			Contact
Dannah Dennis Anthropology Research Project: "Re-Imagining the Nation: Citizens in the New Nepal"			Contact
Alexandra Evans History Research Project: “Reagan’s Middle East: Lebanon and the Evolution of U.S. Strategy, 1981-1985”			Contact
Annie Galvin Research Project: "The Global Contemporary: An Interdisciplinary Symposium"			Contact
Macario Garcia Anthropology Research Project: "Sensing Incarceration: Mobility and Confinement in United States Corrections Systems"			Contact
Mary Gilbert French Research Project: "Racine and the Ancients: Andromaque, Britannicus , and Phèdre"			Contact
Paul Gleason Religious Studies Research Project: "Study the Libraries of Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury at Jesus"			Contact
Maya Hislop English Research Project: “A Memorial to Rape and Race: Remembering the Women of Color"			Contact
Hannah Holtzman French Research Project: "Legacy of the 19th-Century Japonisme Style in Postwar Literature and Film"			Contact
Kimberly Hursh History Research Project: "Dissertation Research at the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain"			Contact
Fauzia Husain Sociology Research Project: "Pakistani Policewomen – Training, Social Aspects, Nationalism, Religion"			Contact
Jiyeon Kang Anthropology Research Project: "Reproductive Choice and Middle Class Status in the Context of China's New Population Policy"			Contact
Nasser Meerkhan Spanish Research Project: “The Divine Comedy” in Dialogue with Islamic Legends: On Visual Medieval Depictions of the Afterlife			Contact
Scott Miller History Research Project: “A Merchant’s Republic: Independence, Depression, and the Development of American Capitalism, 1760-1807”			Contact
Murad Mumtaz Art/Architecture Research Project: "Muslim Devotional Portraiture in the Field of South Asian Painting"			Contact
Ethan Reed English Research Project: "Langston Hughes Research at Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library"			Contact
Zachary Stone English Research Project: "Pore Caitiff and the Grounds of London Devotional Life"			Contact
Sean Tennant Classical Art & Archaeology Research Project: "Domestic Architecture within the Northwestern Roman Provinces in Europe"			Contact
Sean Tennant Classical Art & Archaeology Research Project: "Domestic Architecture within the Northwestern Roman Provinces in Europe"			Contact

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