Fellowships • History • News
Virginia Humanities Fellow Karen Chase - Photo Courtesy of Karen Chase Eliza! Eliza!
One Virginia Woman's Role in America's Founding - A Q&A with Karen Chase
By Nora Pehrson Karen Chase is a 2019 Virginia Humanities Fellow in residence at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. She is working on a forthcoming book, Eliza! Eliza! A work of historical nonfiction, it will tell the oft-forgotten stories of two real women—Eliza House Trist and Eliza Lucas Pinckney—and their contributions to America’s founding. […]
Books & Literature • Fellowships • History
Painting by J. W. Waterhouse: "Miranda, a character in 'The Tempest', a play by William Shakespeare" Hunger
The Jamestown Background of Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Join us in Charlottesville when Virginia Humanities Fellow Hannah Wojciehowski (University of Texas at Austin) will consider the evidence that Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” may have its roots in Jamestown. In 1609, the Sea Venture, the flagship of a resupply mission sailing to Jamestown, was caught in a hurricane and ran aground at Bermuda, then an uninhabited […]
Culture & Identity • Fellowships
Photo courtesy April Manalang The Cultural Cost of Unbelief
What Irreligiosity Means to Minority Millennials in the 21st Century
Aprilfaye Manalang teaches Interdisciplinary Studies and research methods at Norfolk State University. Her current research project seeks to investigate how minority millennials perceive, interpret, and construct unbelief: put short, why are minority millennials leaving the church? Moreover, she wants to learn how that unbelief influences their civic engagement and political outcomes, and how it is […]
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Photo courtesy April Manalang Minority Millennials and the Rise of “Religious Nones”
A Q&A with April Manalang
By Nora Pehrson April Manalang is an assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Norfolk State University, where she teaches classes on citizenship, race, religion, and immigration. As a Virginia Humanities Resident Fellow, Manalang spent this summer researching the decline of churchgoing in minority millennial populations. In 2016, she spent time with Virginia Humanities researching Filipino-American […]
Culture & Identity • Fellowships
The Saving Grace of Spring Rolls
A Story of Food, Place, and Family
Join Virginia Humanities Research Fellow Kim O’Connell, an independent scholar from Arlington, for a talk on her research using her own story of mixed-race heritage—half-Caucasian, half-Vietnamese—to explore Vietnamese immigrants and refugees who came to Virginia in the wake of the Vietnam War. Her work is for a forthcoming book that shares a title with this […]
African American Heritage • Books & Literature • Fellowships
The Long History of Racism and Police Violence in Chicago (and America)
Legendary Civil Rights lawyer Flint Taylor presents his recently published book, “THE TORTURE MACHINE: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago.” In addition to describing his work to uncover the use of torture in the Chicago Police Department, Taylor will discuss his involvement in other landmark civil rights cases, including the 1969 state-sponsored murder of Black […]
Books & Literature • Fellowships
Book Artist, Frank Brannon. Courtesy of Frank Brannon. Watsini: Return to the White World
Paper and book artist Frank Brannon, in residence at Virginia Humanities in 2016-17 as the Robert C. Vaughan Fellow and now an educator with Northern Virginia Community College, will discuss the publications from his fellowship regarding the historical Cherokee Phoenix newspaper, published between 1828 and 1834. His talk will include reflection on his ten years […]
Culture & Identity • Fellowships • Virginia Indians
Greg Smithers - Photo by Pierre Courtois, Library of Virginia The Riverkeepers
The Cherokees, Their Neighbors, and the Rivers that Made America
Join Virginia Humanities Research Fellow Greg Smithers, a professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University, for a talk about the research he conducted for a project entitled “The Riverkeepers: The Cherokees, Their Neighbors, and the Rivers that Made America.” The book is a biography of aquatic places that Cherokee people and their indigenous neighbors believed […]
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Catch Ten Virginia Humanities Fellows at the Festival of the Book
Our residential Fellowship program has been supporting scholarship in the public humanities since 1986 and has a growing alumni base that is approaching 400 Fellows. They arrive from all over the world, sometimes just for a semester, sometimes for longer. While with us, they read, write, and research their topic and then go on to […]
