Billie Jean King, Cornell West, Elizabeth Pryor, and Bob Woodward. The words interdisciplinary, collaborative, inclusive, global, and public are superimposed.

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Samaneh Oladi Ghadikolaei

March 31, 2025

Women, Faith, and Family: Reclaiming Gender Justice through Religious Activism

12:00 p.m. (Online) 

Join us for a Meet VCU Authors event with Samaneh Olad Ghadikolaei, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Meet VCU Authors

 

Margaret Hu
Margaret Hu

April 23, 2025

Public Interest Technology in the Age of AI

4:00 p.m. (In person) 

Join us for a Technology Humanities Speaker Series event with Margaret Hu, the Taylor Reveley Research Professor and Professor of Law, and Director of the Digital Democracy Lab, at William & Mary (W&M) Law School.

Technology Humanities Speaker Series

 

 

Jo-Jo Koo
Jo-Jo Koo

April 25, 2025

Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity and W. D. Ross’s Ethical Pluralism: An Attempt at Integration

12:00 p.m. (Online)

Join us for a Work-in-Progress seminar with Jo-Jo Koo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Focused Inquiry at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Work-in-Progess Seminar

 

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Fellowship and Grant Writing for Graduate Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Jose Alcaine, Meredith Sisson and Mary Strawderman
Director of Research Services in the Office of Research and Faculty Development, Associate Director in the Honors College National Scholarship Office, and Doctoral Student in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs

Between Here and There: Creating the Political Economy of Mexican Migration

Daniel Morales
Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University,
author of Between Here and There

Brian Daugherity

Faculty Spotlight: Brian Daugherity

Written by Maggie Unverzagt Goddard, Postdoctoral Fellow, History Dept.; Associate Director, Health Humanities Lab; Co-Director, Public Humanities Lab

 

As the Co-Director of the Public Humanities Lab at the HRC, Brian Daugherity draws on his extensive experience using collaboration as a methodology. Combining history and education, his work is not just limited to learning about the past; rather, Daugherity focuses on the past to learn important lessons and to find how it connects with the present.

Brian Daugherity's research focuses on the implementation of the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision in Virginia. He teaches courses on the History of the Civil Rights Movement, the History of Virginia, and the History of the United States since 1865. Daugherity also has taught a number of traveling courses, including an interdisciplinary class on the civil rights movement in the South, and another on the history of Virginia via a month-long boating trip down the James River.

In 2014, Daugherity co-taught “Footprints on the James: The Human and Natural History of Virginia” with James Vonesh and Dan Carr, two VCU biology professors, to explore the history and biology of the James River watershed, and how the two disciplines overlap and intersect. Along with their students, the faculty traveled a roughly 150-mile section of the James via sea kayak, canoe, raft, and bateau while backpacking and camping along the way... [Read the full spotlight]

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