Meet VCU Authors
Members of faculty in the humanities at VCU have an impressive record of scholarly productivity and are recognized, both nationally and internationally, for their significant contributions to our understanding of the human condition across cultures, throughout the past, and in the present. Our Meet VCU Authors series invites members of the Richmond community as well as colleagues and students from VCU and other local universities to come and meet VCU's authors as they talk about their recently published books and answer questions about their work. All are welcome!
What Does a Religion Feel Like? Thoughts on Emotion in Early Christianity
Date: Monday, Aug 25, 2025
From The Wiz to Wakanda: Afrofuturism in Pop Culture
Date: Monday, Sep 8, 2025
One Planet, One Sky: Internationalism in Modern Astronomy
Date: Monday, Sep 22, 2025
Informatics of Domination
Date: Monday, Oct 27, 2025
The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing and Mass Incarceration
Date: Monday, Feb 2, 2026
Cinema of Crushing Motherhood: A New Feminist Cinema
Date: Monday, Feb 9, 2026
The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery
Date: Monday, Mar 2, 2026
The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes
Date: Monday, Mar 16, 2026
Secret Addressee: Essays on How Poetry Matters
Date: Monday, Apr 13, 2026
Past Events
Rebecca Gibson
The Bad Corset: A Feminist Reimagining [video]
The speaker for this event was Rebecca Gibson, Assistant Teaching Professor of Anthropology in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Samaneh Oladi Ghadikolaei
Women, Faith, and Family: Reclaiming Gender Justice through Religious Activism
The speaker for this event was Samaneh Oladi Ghadikolaei, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Hala Auji
The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East [video]
The speakers for this event were Hala Auji, Raphael Cormack, and Alaaeldin Mahmoud, co-editors of The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East.
Daniel Morales
Between Here and There: Creating the Political Economy of Mexican Migration [video]
The speaker for this event was Daniel Morales, Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Christopher Brooks
Dual Pandemics: HIV and the Coronavirus in Several Kenyan Communities [video]
The speaker for this event was Christopher Brooks, Professor of Anthropology in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Rebecca Gibson
Cyborgs, Ethics, and the Matrix: Simulations of Sex and Gender [video]
The speaker for this event was Rebecca Gibson, Assistant Teaching Professor of Anthropology in the School of World Studies at VCU.
Christopher Brooks
Tales of Koehler Hollow: An African American Family in Rural Appalachia
The speaker for this event was Christopher Brooks, Professor of Anthropology in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Josh Galarza
Writing Pathways Out of Patriarchy: The Creative Research Behind “The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky” [video]
The speaker for this event was Josh Galarza, who discussed the journey behind writing his young adult debut, The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky.
Caddie Alford
Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality [video]
The speaker for this event was Caddie Alford, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing in the Department of English at VCU, and affiliate faculty in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies.
William Newmann
Isolation and Engagement: Presidential Decision Making on Foreign Policy from Kennedy to Nixon [video]
The speaker for this event was William Newmann, Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of Isolation and Engagement: Presidential Decision Making on China from Kennedy to Nixon.
Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom [video]
The speakers for this event were Luis A. Cortes, Jennifer Ho, Shermaine M. Jones and Kevin Pyon, moderatored by Cristina Stanciu and Gary Totten.