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Scholarly Works, Religion and Culture [32]
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South Atlantic Humanities Center (SAHC) [3]
SAHC, 2001-2009, was dedicated to collaborative public humanities programming that built understanding of the history, culture, and potential of the region and related or overlapping regions
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North American Universities and Socioecological Transformation
(Even3, 2022)Otto et al (2020) suggest areas where interventions may trigger a “social tipping point” in efforts to address the climate and ecological crisis. One of the six is climate education and engagement, a natural leadership ... -
Recovering Paul Robeson
(ASALH Press, 2022-08-31)This lesson will recover the history of Paul Robeson and provide teachers with culturally responsive resources, activities, and innovative educational approaches to teaching. In teaching the life of Paul Robeson I use ... -
Claudette Colvin, Mary Louise Smith: Excavating Black Girls History
(The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 2022-09-01)In Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 fifteen-year old Claudette Colvin and eighteen year old Mary Louise Smith on separate occasions refused to stand up so that a white supremacist women could take their bus seats. This lesson ... -
The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life [Book review]
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Virtual and Augmented Reality: Four Case Studies
(2021-08)The following four case studies are fictional thought experiments designed for college students at Virginia Tech. They are mainly intended for use in undergraduates the novel “Tech for Humanity Minor” focused on the ... -
On Calling Donald Trump 'Corrupt'
(Routledge, 2022-05-31)This chapter advances an eccentric model of corruption both to understand various disturbing features of Donald Trump’s political career, and to explore the risks of using the term “corrupt” as a pejorative label for Trump. ... -
Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making
(Cornell University Press, 2021-03)By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law highlights how the sharia, when attached to constitutional commitments, is ... -
“Lots of Prayer, Lots of Emotional Coaching, and Pray it Works out the Best”: Tuning in to Kids in a Rural Appalachian Community
(2020-07)Rural Americans face barriers in access to services such as psychoeducation programs. The purpose of this study was to describe how participants in a rural Appalachian community, a geographic location that has been largely ... -
Building Interdisciplinary Partnerships for Community-Engaged Environmental Health Research in Appalachian Virginia
(MDPI, 2020-03-05)This article describes a collaboration among a group of university faculty, undergraduate students, local governments, local residents, and U.S. Army staff to address long-standing concerns about the environmental health ... -
Xiuzhen (Immortality Cultivation) Fantasy: Science, Religion, and the Novels of Magic/Superstition in Contemporary China
(MDPI, 2020-01-02)In early twenty-first-century China, online fantasy is one of the most popular literary genres. This article studies a subgenre of Chinese fantasy named xiuzhen 修真 (immortality cultivation), which draws on Daoist ... -
Impeaching Dilma Rousseff: the double life of corruption allegations on Brazil’s political right
(2018-08)This essay analyses the 2016 congressional impeachment of Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, for alleged budgetary misconduct, as well as the related right-wing, ‘anti-corruption’ demonstrations calling for her ouster. ... -
Models of Clientelism and Policy Change: The Case of Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes in Mexico and Brazil
(2011-07)Clientelist systems vary, and this variation influences the adoption and evolution of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes. We find that vertically integrated, corporatist clientelism in Mexico and more locally ... -
Auctioning Patronage in Northeast Brazil: The Political Value of Money in a Ritual Market
(2010-06)Fundraising auctions help people in a small rural town in Northeast Brazil reckon with the effects that currency stabilization and democratization have had on municipal politics. These simultaneous processes have made ... -
“But the winds will turn against you”: An analysis of wealth forms and the discursive space of development in northeast Brazil
(2009-02)In this article, I explain the unfolding of a participatory development project in northeast Brazil by exploring how local genres of public speech articulate with categories of wealth. Although development resources cannot ... -
Clientelism, Elections, and the Dialectic of Numerical People in Northeast Brazil
(University of Chicago Press, 2018-04-01)This paper explores rural Brazilians’ interpretations of and ethical reflections on political clientelism. Brazilian elites often regard the people of the dry hinterland (sertanejos) as lazy, politically apathetic, and ... -
Environmental health disparities in the Central Appalachian region of the United States
(De Gruyter, 2017-09-26)Health disparities that cannot be fully explained by socio-behavioral factors persist in the Central Appalachian region of the United States. A review of available studies of environmental impacts on Appalachian health and ... -
Request for Proposals: South Atlantic Humanities Center [rev.]
(Virginia Tech, 2006-02-24)The South Atlantic Humanities Center (SAHC) is supported by endowments at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, and the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts ... -
Request for Proposals: South Atlantic Humanities Center
(Virginia Tech, 2006)SAHC seeks proposals from Virginia Tech faculty of all ranks that will advance the mission of the Center. -
Satterwhite and Shifflett Win First SAHC VT Awards
(Virginia Tech, 2006-05-05)After competitive review, the South Atlantic Humanities Center at Virginia Tech awarded $10,000 on May 5, 2006, for two outstanding proposals: Jamestown in an Atlantic World: A Digital Book Proposal by Dr. Crandall ...
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