Arts and Sciences
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Janis Antonovics
Professor, Department of Biology
Research Interests: Evolutionary dynamics of infectious disease
Email: ja8n@Virginia.EDU
John Arras
Porterfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Professor of Philosophy, Director of Bioethics Minor Program
Research Interests: Bioethics, Political Philosophy, Ethics
Email: jda3a@virginia.edu
Rae Blumberg
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology
Research Interests: Gender and Economic Development
International Areas of Interest: Latin America: Venezuela; Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Jamaica, Curaçao, Trinidad; Asia/Pacific: India, Thailand, Nepal, Laos, Vietnam, China, Sri Lanka, Burma, Australia, Fiji, Japan; Middle East/Europe: Egypt, Israel, Bulgaria, Hungary, former DDR, Kosovo/Yugoslavia, Ukraine; Sub-Saharan Africa: Nigeria, Swaziland, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi
Email: rlb9b@Virginia.EDU
John Bushweller
Professor, Department of Molecular Phys and Biological Physics
Research Interests: Structural and chemical biology based efforts to understand and inhibit critical transcription factors in cancer
International Areas of Interest: Switzerland, Sweden, Germany
Email: jhb4v@Virginia.EDU
James Demas
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Research Interests: Photochemistry and Photophysics of Transition Metal Complexes
Email: jnd@Virginia.EDU
Cassandra Fraser
Professor of Chemistry
Reseach Interests: Synthesis, properties and applications of metal complexes with polymeric ligands
Email: cf4n@Virginia.EDU
David Haberly
Professor, Department for Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Research Interests: Latin American Literature and Languages
International Areas of Interest: Brazil, Argentina
Email: dth@Virginia.EDU
Zjaleh Hajibashi Ph.D.
Lecturer, Dept of Asian and Middle Eastern Lang and Cultures
Research Interests: Persian Language and Literature, Women's Studies;Middle Eastern Societies and Cultures
International Areas of Interest: Asia and the Middle East
Email: zh2f@Virginia.EDU
Richard Handler
Professor and Assoc Dean, Academic Programs, Department of Anthropology
Research Interests: Nationalism, ethnicity, and the politics of culture; Intersection of Anthropology and Literature
International Areas of Interest: Canada, Great Britain and France
Email: rh3y@Virginia.EDU
Justin Holcomb
Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, Sociology, Executive Director, Mosaic (http://www.mosaicpeace.org/) - a non-profit serving Uganda and Sudan
Research Interests: Death and Dying; Violence, Gender, and Poverty; Christianity; Comparative Religion
International Areas of Interest: Sudan and Uganda
Email: jh2ea@Virginia.EDU
Sanjay Jain
Research Interests: Development economics, political economy, applied microeconomic theory
International Areas of Interest: South Asia
Email: sj8n@virginia.edu
Wende Marshall
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Research Interests: health disparities, African American health, health and (neo)colonialism, health and decolonization, popular discourses entangling race and disease.
International Areas of Interest: U.S., Oceania, i.e. Hawaii
Email: wm3f@Virginia.EDU
Amalia Miller
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Research Interests: Public Finance, Labor Economics,
Economics of the Family, Health Economics
Email: am5by@Virginia.EDU
Steven Nock
Commonwealth Professor of Sociology & Professor
Department of Sociology
Research Interests: Social science and public policy concerning households and families in America
International Areas of Interest: Canadian and British family law, family policy and family trends.
Email: sln@Virginia.EDU
William Quandt
Edward R Stettinius Prof of Politics
Department of Politics
Research Interests: American Foreign Policy in the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict; Study Abroad
International Areas of Interest: Middle East
Email: wbq8f@Virginia.EDU
Dick Reppucci
Professor, Department of Psychology
Research Interests: Children, Families, and the law
International Areas of Interest: Canada
Email: ndr@virginia.edu
Bruce Reynolds
Professor, Department of Economics
Research Interests: Inequality, development and institutional change in transition economies
International Areas of Interest:China
Email: br3p@Virginia.EDU
Deborah Roach
Cavalier's Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Research Interests: demography of aging, temporal and spatial variation in natural populations
International Areas of Interest: primary international collaborator in Germany
Email: dar2x@Virginia.EDU
Anjeanette Roberts, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research Interests: Graduate Coordinator of Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases
International Areas of Interest: Russia
Email: ar3ea@Virginia.EDU
Caroline Rody
Associate Professor, Department of English
Research Interests: Contemporary ethnic American fiction, women's fiction, and postcolonial and Caribbean fiction
International Areas of Interest: The Americas, Jewish Studies
Email: rody@virginia.edu
Mohammad Sawaie
Professor of Arabic, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Study Abroad
International Areas of Interest: Jordan
Email: ms@Virginia.EDU
Dorothy Schafer
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Research Interests: Visualization and molecular analysis of actin assembly in living cells
Email: das9w@virginia.edu
Herman Schwartz
Professor of Politics, Department of Politics
Research Interests: Political and economic causes for the relocation of production on a global scale, and the political and economic consequences of such shifts
International Areas of Interest: Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Canada
Email: hms2f@Virginia.EDU
Milton Vickerman
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Research Interests: Race, immigration, Assimilation, Social Inequity, Development, Religion
International Areas of Interest: The Caribbean
Email: mv8d@virginia.edu
Mike Wormington
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Research Interests: MicroRNA Function and Regulation during Oogenesis and Embryogenesis
International Areas of Interest: England, Scotland, Germany
Email: ww2t@Virginia.EDU