Prof. Ali is a feminist media scholar, whose current research interests center on war on terror era militarism. She is particularly concerned with the ways that feminism is mobilized in the public...

I am a White anti-racist queer femme applied developmental psychologist, sexuality educator, and community organizer. I lived in Boston and New York City before moving to Charlottesville in 2016...

Dr. Avery’s overarching research interests are at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and mainstream media. Specifically, she is interested in Black women’s intersectional identities and...

Manuel G. Aviles-Santiago is an associate professor of communication and culture at the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, and an affiliate faculty with the School of Transborder Studies. He...

Mary Beltrán specializes in critical studies-driven scholarship at the intersections of film and television studies, Latina/Latino and critical race studies, and gender studies. Informed by her...

Aniko Bodroghkozy is a media historian with a focus on television, the 1960s, and movements for social change. She is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and has been on its...

Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Director of American Studies. Founding director of the Asian Pacific American Studies minor.
 

I am a doctoral candidate in Islamic Studies. My dissertation research looks at the cultural productions of humor by South Asian Muslim men and the ways in which Islam is constructed and then...

Shilpa Davé is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and American Studies at the University of Virginia and an Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and Science working with Bonnycastle, Hancock...

Nichole Flores is an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. She speaks, writes and teaches about the significance of Catholic and Latinx theology and ethics in...