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 […]
Books & Literature • Fellowships • News
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 […]
African American Heritage • Fellowships
Fellows Talk: A People Between
Servitude and the Law in 18th-Century Virginia - Feb. 19, Charlottesville
Join Virginia Humanities Fellow and University of Oregon history professor Allison Madar for a discussion of her research on the history of early America and the early modern Atlantic world with a focus on unfreedom and the law. Her book-in-progress examines the legal and social dynamics of servitude and the ways in which masters used […]
African American Heritage • Fellowships • History
The Greensboro Massacre: Ambush or Shootout?
Competing narratives of what happened on Nov. 3, 1979
On the morning of November 3, 1979, communist labor and anti-racist activists were preparing for a city-sanctioned, noontime rally in Greensboro, NC. The subject of their march was Ku Klux Klan interference with multi-racial union building efforts in the powerful, local textile mills. As four news crews rolled their cameras, Klansmen (and women) and American […]
Fellowships • History • News • Virginia Indians
"The Chimneys" as seen from the Appalachian Trail. Photo copyright Susan Bratton, 2018. Stories of the Peaks
Interview with Susan Bratton
Susan Bratton is Professor of Environmental Studies and a Fellow of the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. This fall, Bratton is a Virginia Humanities Resident Fellow studying Native and early colonial religious beliefs about the Appalachian Trail and the surrounding landscape. On November 6, at the beginning of National […]
Books & Literature • Fellowships • News
Woodcut depicting scenes from the slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County in 1831 - Courtesy of University of Virginia Special Collections Archives, Poetry, & Perspectives on American History
Interview with Brenda Marie Osbey
Brenda Marie Osbey is an author of poetry and prose nonfiction in English and French. This fall, she is the Emilia Galli Struppa Fellow at Virginia Humanities and a visiting professor at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia (UVA). Her poems consider the experiences of American […]
African American Heritage • Books & Literature • Fellowships
Michelle Obama’s Impact on African American Women & Girls
Two-time Virginia Humanities residential Fellow and associate professor of Africana studies at Virginia Tech, Paula Marie Seniors was an editor of the recently published collection of essays, poetry, and art, Michelle Obama’s Impact on African American Women and Girls. The collection explores how First Lady Michelle Obama gradually expanded and broadened her role by engaging in social, […]
Books & Literature • Fellowships • History
Dr. Richard Kopley Thoughts on Poe
Tue. Nov. 27 - Richmond, Tue. Dec. 4 - Charlottesville
Join Virginia Humanities Fellow Dr. Richard Kopley, a Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, from Penn State DuBois, for a talk on his research for a critical biography of Edgar Allan Poe. A former president of the Poe Studies Association and a recent recipient of the group’s Lifetime Achievement and Service Award, Dr. Kopley has published […]
