John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor in the History & Principles of Democracy
Director for Academic Affairs of the Democracy Initiative
Laurent Dubois is the John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor in the History & Principles of Democracy and Director for Academic Affairs of the Democracy Initiative
S. Max Edelson studies the history of British America and the Atlantic world. His research examines space, place, and culture in colonial North America and the Caribbean. His first book, Plantation...
PhD Student in the Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Yafrainy Familia is a Ph.D. student in the Spanish Department and has research interests in 20th and 21st century Caribbean and Latin American literatures, migration, diaspora and U.S. Latinx studies...
Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs in the Department of Politics
Robert Fatton Jr. is the Julia A. Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books and a large number...
PhD Student in the Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Carlos is a Ph.D. student in the Spanish Department. His research interests are in Caribbean cultures, Migration and Diaspora, Memory studies, Relationship of literature and art with cultural history...
Kelsey Jaye is a doctoral stident in the Department of French and has research interests in philosophy of language, decolonial theory, postcolonial subjective identity, exile, displacement, religion...
Elizabeth Arendall Tilney and Schuyler Merritt Tilney Jefferson Fellow
Cherrie Kwok’s dissertation focuses on a set of anti-imperial writers from Black America, the Caribbean, China, and India who drew from a late-Victorian movement called Decadence in their poetry and...
Assistant Professor of English and American Studies
Carmen Lamas is an assistant professor of English and American Studies, exploring hemispheric American and Latinx literary cultures from the 19th century to the present.
Postdoctoral Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences
Rashana Vikara Lydner (she/her) holds a Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies with a Designated Emphasis in African and African American Studies (African Diaspora Studies) from the University of...
