RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA - Key Persons
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- Associate Vice President for Development
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- Professor of French and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs ( Administrative Support: Ella Durbin )
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- Tom Scully Discovery Chair Associate Professor of Spanish
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
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- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Assistant Professor of Spanish
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- Music
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- Associate Professor of Media Studies
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
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- Assistant Professor of Latina / O Literature and Latina / O Studies
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- Associate Professor of Religious Studies
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- Senior Grants and Contracts Administrator
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- Assistant Professor of Spanish
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- Dean of the College
- Dean, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Christa Davis Acampora is the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia.
She is focused on leading the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences to realize a vision that aligns with the University's 2030 plan, recognizing that the pathway for UVA to become the best public in the nation and one of the best universities anywhere in the world runs directly through Arts & Sciences.
To achieve this, A&S seeks to deliver a second to none undergraduate experience that is also an unprecedented achievement in public higher education; recruit,advance, and re-recruit extraordinary talent; garner national and international recognition for research excellence and academic innovation across the Arts &Sciences divisions; and focus on graduate excellence and expand the resource-base to support it. The importance of the latter has led to a significant focus of philanthropic energy to double the size of the endowment for the Graduate School and increase graduate fellowship support. A signal intention guiding Acampora's work is to foster a deep sense of belonging for all members of the community.
Acampora's academic training is in philosophy, and she has a distinguished record of research and scholarship in modern European philosophy, moral psychology, and aesthetics. She is author, co-author, or editor of seven books and has published dozens of articles and book chapters. Her philosophical interests range from artificial intelligence and conceptions of responsibility to the beauty of baseball. Currently, she is examining various forms of moral breakdown and what they reveal about morality more generally. Her book-in-progress develops a conceptual framework for analyses of moral transformation, injury, and repair in various contexts, including the experiences of veterans, healthcare workers, and other populations.
Prior to joining UVA, Acampora served as Professor of Philosophy and Deputy Provost at Emory University, where she was the chief deputy to the provost and a strategic thought partner for stewarding Emory's academic mission. She supported faculty and leadership recruitment, faculty advancement, student flourishing, institutional development, and academic innovation, and she worked closely with the vice provosts and staff, deans, and other campus leaders to advance initiatives and implement strategic goals and objectives. She has led numerous projects that span the full spectrum of disciplines and professions, and she is a champion of public scholarship and community-engaged learning. Before joining the faculty at Emory, she taught and mentored students at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the CUNY Graduate Center and served as the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Research.
Acampora is a native of the Commonwealth, born and raised in Roanoke. She earned her Bachelor of Arts cum laude in philosophy from Hollins University and her Ph.D. in philosophy from Emory University.
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- Senior Director of Development Operations
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- Assistant Director of Faculty Affairs
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- Senior Special Assistant to the Dean
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- Associate Professor of Politics
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- Senior Finance Generalist
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- Ambassador Henry J. Taylor & Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Professor of Politics and Interim Associate Dean for the Undergraduate Experience & Strategic Initiatives
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- Historian
- Assistant Professor of History and American Studies
- Visiting Scholar of American Studies and the Americas Center
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David Singerman is a historian of science, technology, the environment, and American capitalism. He received his PhD in 2014 from MIT's program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society, where his research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. David's dissertation, "Inventing Purity in the Atlantic Sugar World, 1860-1930," was awarded prizes in 2015 for the best dissertation in business history in both the U.S. and Britain, and his work has been published in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, the Journal of British Studies, and Enterprise & Society, while another article is forthcoming in Radical History Review.
At UVA, he is working on his first book, entitled Purity and Power in the American Sugar Empire, 1860-1940, which narrates a new history of U.S. imperialism by tracing material struggles over knowledge about sugar's substance and value. Drawing on research in U.S., Cuban, and Hawaiian archives, Purity and Power shows how the U.S's attempts to govern nature and human labor in its Pacific and Caribbean colonies were inseparable from contests over corruption, free trade, and corporate power at home. He is also preparing an article about food, labor, and scientific knowledge in the 1880s and 1890s, examining scandals over the smuggling of frozen Canadian herring into Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Before coming to Virginia, David was a postdoctoral fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis and a research associate at Harvard Business School.
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- Dean
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- Director of Staff Affairs
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- Director of Marketing & Communications
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- Assistant Professor of Portuguese
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- Senior Director of Financial Planning and Analysis
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- Faculty Affairs Specialist
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- Senior Director of Research Administration & Development
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- President
- President, College Foundation
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- Senior Financial Generalist
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- Chairman of the Nominating Committee
- Sociology ( Expiring 2024 ) - CHAIR
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- Events Manager & Special Assistant
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- Associate Professor of Anthropology
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- Commonwealth Chair of American Studies and History
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- Senior HR Business Partner
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- Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
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- Associate Professor of History
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- Professor of Politics and Public Policy
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- Director, a & S Learning Design & Technology
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- IT Process Improvement Lead
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- Assistant Professor of Media Studies
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- Associate Professor of Religious Studies
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- Post - Award Research Administrator
- Research Administrator
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- Senior Director of Development
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- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology
- Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology ( Administrative Support: Anna Caughron )
- Associate Professor of Sociology
Jennifer Bair is a sociologist of globalization, with interests in trade and the political economy of development, and the relationship between gender and work. Her research agenda centers on the comparative study of export-led development, and she has conducted fieldwork in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Bangladesh.
Her publications include "Global capitalism and commodity chains: looking back, going forward" (Competition and Change), "On difference and capital: gender and the globalization of production" (Signs), "From varieties of capitalism to varieties of activism: The anti-sweatshop movement in comparative perspective" (Social Problems, co-authored with Florence Palpacuer), and "The legacies of partial possession: From agrarian struggle to neoliberal restructuring in Mexico and Colombia" (International Journal of Comparative Sociology, co-authored with Phil Hough), which received awards from two American Sociological Association sections (Political Economy of the World-System, and Sociology of Development).
She is the editor of Frontiers of Commodity Chain Research (Stanford University Press) and the former chair of the ASA's section on the Political Economy of the World System. She has spoken at the United Nations, the European Parliament, the International Labor Office, and the Collège de France about supply chains, development, and labor conditions in factories around the globe. Jennifer received her B.A. in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University and her Ph.D. in Sociology from Duke University, with a Concentration in Women's Studies.
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- Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair of English
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- Member of the Nominating Committee
- Biology
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- Administrative Support
- Assistant Director for Academic Administration
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- Associate Professor of Urban Planning
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- Post - Award Research Administrator
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- Director of Data Analytics and IT Support
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- Interim Associate Dean, Undergraduate Student Services
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- Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ( Administrative Support: Andie Weaver )
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- Instructional Technology Specialist - Language Lab
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- Grants and Contracts Administrator
- Post - Award Research Administrator / Post - Award Departments: Environmental Sciences, Chemistry
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- Associate Vice President of Operations
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- Associate Dean
- Chief of Staff
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- Director of Development, Major Gifts
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- Chairman of the Steering Committee
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- Associate Dean for the Sciences & Research
- Commonwealth Professor of Biology and Associate Dean for the Sciences and Research ( Administrative Support: Anna Caughron )
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- Manager of Fundraising Boards
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- Chief Financial Officer
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- Chief Operating Officer, the College Foundation
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- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Chemistry
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Assistant Professor of English
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- Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- Director, Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics
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- Associate Professor of English and Woodson Institute of African - American and African Studies
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- Senior Director of Development
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- Associate Professor of Religious Studies
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- Senior Finance Generalist
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- Senior Director of Development, Principal Gifts
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- Director of Development, Principal Gifts
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Sociology
Associate Professor Milton Vickerman (Ph.D. 1992, New York University), joined the University of Virginia in 1994. His main areas of research are race, immigration, and processes of minority adaptation to American society.
Professor Vickerman's research focuses on race, immigration, and religion, specifically around the following questions: (1) How do perceptions of race help generate and sustain social inequality?; (2) how does post-civil rights upward mobility for African Americans impact the debate around American racism?; (3) how do host societies respond institutionally, philosophically, and in terms of policy as immigration causes their populations to become more diverse?; and (4) how does belief in the supernatural relate to questions of inclusion, order, and inequality? His current research on African immigrants and refugees addresses a number of these questions. It investigates why some of these immigrants, particularly refugees, are now moving to small towns and suburbs, and how they are adjusting. The research is revealing that their outcomes are complex. Refugees are struggling to adjust, but this is also true of many putatively voluntary African immigrants. However, many other voluntary African immigrants are experiencing upward mobility. Length of time lived in the U.S. and variation in human capital endowments are the key factors explaining these divergent outcomes. Typically, African immigrants turn to religion as they try to adjust to life in the U.S. Consequently, this research is also a study of the religious life of African immigrants.
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- Associate Director of Office and Human Resources Administration
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- Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
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- Financial Services Coordinator
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- Associate Director of Marketing & Communications
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- Director of Sponsored Research Development
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- Associate Professor of Spanish
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- Associate Professor of English
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- Senior Associate Dean and Chief Marketing Officer
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- Director of Business Intelligence
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- Associate Dean for Arts & Humanities and Professor of Art ( Administrative Support: Camille Lipnicky )
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- Chairman of the Steering Committee
- Biology
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- Leadership Annual Gift Officer
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- Director of Development, Major Gifts
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- Leadership Annual Gift Officer
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- Administrative Director of Development Services
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- Associate Professor of English
- Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Director of Minor in Asian Pacific American Studies
Office hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 12:00pm-1:00pm | by appointment only | Bryan Hall 108
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- Historian
- Visiting Scholar With the Americas Center
Tamara J. Walker is an historian of slavery and gender in Latin America. Her first book, Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Peru (Cambridge University Press, in production), examines how slaves in a wealthy urban center used elegant clothing as a language for expressing myriad attitudes about gender and status. Exquisite Slaves draws on traditional historical research methods, visual studies, feminist theory, and material culture scholarship, in order to argue that clothing was an emblem of the not only the reach but also the limits of slaveholders' power and racial domination in Lima.
Dr. Walker is currently at work on a new book project, Slavery and the South Sea, which focuses on the part of the Pacific Ocean that connected East Asia to Central and South America. This work seeks to show that, beyond counting among the valuable commodities that circulated on merchant ships, enslaved men, women, and children played instrumental roles in both protecting and pillaging the wealth that abounded in the region. In detailing their diverse experiences, the project lays claim to the sea as not just the beginning of Africans' history in Spanish America, but as constitutive of it as well.
In addition to receiving support from the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the American Association of University Women and the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Dr. Walker's work has appeared in such publications as Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, Gender & History, and The Journal of Family History.
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- Tom Scully Discovery Chair Associate Professor of Spanish
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- Associate Director of Graduate Student Enrollment and Engagement
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- Assistant Dean for Graduate Education
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Psychology
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- Professor of Environmental Sciences
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- Interim Director of Communications