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UVA’s Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures is hosting the annual conference of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, a global professional body with more than 200 humanities centers from around the world.

Hector Amaya (Media Studies), and Murad Idris, (Politics), have been awarded fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, for the 2018-19 academic year.

The Democracy Initiative’s next lab will focus on combatting corruption, and will be led by scholars from disciplines across Arts & Sciences and the School of Law. The lab will run for approximately three years and feature new classes, conferences, and research in the field of corruption studies.

Grace Elizabeth Hale, Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History, and Talitha LeFlouria, the Lisa Smith Discovery Associate Professor in African and African-American Studies, are among the 31 distinguished scholars and writers who had their research proposals selected by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. 

Take a look at the graduates, the speakers and the people behind the University's proudest tradition, which will take place on May 18, 19 & 20.

With Guggenheim Fellowships, English professor Anna Brickhouse will work on her project, “Earthquake Aesthetics,” and history professor Thomas Klubock on “Nation of Rivers: A History of Water and Water Wars in Modern South America.” 

UVA Human Resources is undergoing a major transformation with the goal of improving the workplace experience for faculty, staff and student workers.

Join us as we unite our diverse Arts & Sciences community and show the University how passionate and committed College alumni and friends are to the future success of UVA.

This year’s Humanities Week, created and produced by students, is organized around the theme “Civil Resistance.” 

National Geographic magazine editors asked history professor John Edwin Mason to examine 130 years of coverage for racist writing and images. See how he did it and what he found.