IHGC Fellows
2023-2024
2022-2023
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Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
Professor, Religious Studies
Research Project: The Social Implications of Grammatical Gender in Biblical Law & Early Rabbinic Commentary (c. 300 CE)
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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
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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”
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Ari Blatt
Associate Professor, French
Research Project: “State of Place, State of Mind: Vernacular Landscapes in Contemporary French Photography”
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Tessa Farmer
Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Language and Cultures, and Global Studies
Research Project: “Cairo’s Sabils: Gifting Water”
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Kasey Jernigan
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and American Studies, Anthropology & American Studies
Research Project: “Mapping Indigenous/UVA Relations”
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Neeti Nair
Associate Professor, History
Research Project: “India’s Partition: Literature, Culture, Politics”
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Michael Puri
Associate Professor, Music
Research Project: “Mimetic Musical Modernism: The Case of Maurice Ravel”
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China Scherz
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Research Project: “Not Me: Addiction, Release, and Response in Central Uganda"
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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
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Ahmed H. al-Rahim
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Research Project: Mobility and Knowledge in the Mongol Empire
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Fotini Kondyli
Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Archaeology
Research Project: Citizen Participation and Urban Planning in Byzantine Athens
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Erik Linstrum
Associate Professor, Department of History
Research Project: Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of Empire
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Giulia Paoletti
Assistant Professor, Department of Art
Research Project: Reinventing Photography: Technology and Visuality in Senegal (1860-1960)
2018-2019
![Paul Dobryden](https://ihgc.as.virginia.edu/sites/ihgc.as.virginia.edu/files/styles/people_crop__200x115_/public/Paul%20Dobryden.jpg?itok=baI1tRBL)
Paul Dobryden
Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages
Research Project: Energetic Media: Thermodynamics and the German Avante-Garde
![Matthew Hedstrom](https://ihgc.as.virginia.edu/sites/ihgc.as.virginia.edu/files/styles/people_crop__200x115_/public/Matthew%20Hedstrom_0.jpg?itok=do7KlV8F)
Matthew Hedstrom
Associate Professor, American Studies and Religious Studies
Research Project: Religion of Humanity: Spirituality, Politics and the United Nations
![Aynne Kokas](https://ihgc.as.virginia.edu/sites/ihgc.as.virginia.edu/files/styles/people_crop__200x115_/public/Aynne%20Kokas.jpg?itok=tum4_k9E)
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](https://ihgc.as.virginia.edu/sites/ihgc.as.virginia.edu/files/styles/people_crop__200x115_/public/Shankar%20Nair.png?itok=Osk0y21P)
Shankar Nair
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Research Project: Hindu-Muslim Cosmopolitan Cultures in Early Modern South Asia
![Jennifer Rubenstein](https://ihgc.as.virginia.edu/sites/ihgc.as.virginia.edu/files/styles/people_crop__200x115_/public/Jennifer%20Rubenstein.jpg?itok=ASorPPd8)
Jennifer Rubenstein
Associate Professor, Department of Politics
Research Project: The Politics of Emergency Claim-Making and it Alternatives
![Samhita Sunya](https://ihgc.as.virginia.edu/sites/ihgc.as.virginia.edu/files/styles/people_crop__200x115_/public/s200_samhita.sunya_.jpg?itok=SRtMsoMB)
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](https://ihgc.as.virginia.edu/sites/ihgc.as.virginia.edu/files/styles/people_crop__200x115_/public/Jarrett%20Zigon.jpg?itok=R3MccCOw)
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
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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
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William Hitchcock
Professor, Corcoran Department of History
Research Project: Refugee Century: An International History
![Murad Idris](https://ihgc.as.virginia.edu/sites/ihgc.as.virginia.edu/files/styles/people_crop__200x115_/public/Murad%20Idris.jpg?itok=s74JK-Ux)
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.
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Christopher Krentz
Associate Professor, Department of English
Research Project: Unexpected Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in the Literature of the Global South
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Christina Mobley
Assistant Professor, Corcoran Department of History
Research Project: The Kongolese Atlantic: The Central African History of the Haitian Revolution
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Charlotte Rogers
Assistant Professor, Spanish, Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Research Project: Savage Storms in Literature of the Americas
2016-2017
![Enrico Cesaretti](https://ihgc.as.virginia.edu/sites/ihgc.as.virginia.edu/files/styles/people_crop__200x115_/public/enrico_cesaretti.jpg?itok=c4-lCisf)
Enrico Cesaretti
Professor, Italian
Research Project: "Telling Matters: Narratives of Ecological Entanglements in Modern Italy"
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Sheila Crane
Associate Professor, Architectural History, School of Architecture
Research Project: "Inventing Informality"
![Douglas Fordham](https://ihgc.as.virginia.edu/sites/ihgc.as.virginia.edu/files/styles/people_crop__200x115_/public/douglas-fordham.jpg?itok=X29O6pEE)
Douglas Fordham
Associate Professor, Art History, McIntire Department of Art
Research Project: "Aquatint Empires"
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Christian McMillen
Professor, Corcoran Department of History
Research Project: "Water Development in the Global South, 1960s to the Present"
![Amanda Phillips](https://ihgc.as.virginia.edu/sites/ihgc.as.virginia.edu/files/styles/people_crop__200x115_/public/amanda_phillips.jpg?itok=UneicQjH)
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
![Nichole Flores](https://ihgc.as.virginia.edu/sites/ihgc.as.virginia.edu/files/styles/people_crop__200x115_/public/Nichole_Flores_04_BW_DA%20copy%203-HEADSHOT.jpg?itok=lI9ggGdh)
Nichole Flores
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Research Project: "Guadalupe in the Public Square: Aesthetic Solidarity and the Pursuit of Justice"
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Denise Walsh
Associate Professor, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics
Research Project: "When Rights Go Wrong: Multiculturalism and Women's Rights"