Nasrin Olla is an Assistant Professor of English and African & African American Studies. Nasrin completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Cape Town and her PhD in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. Nasrin is currently completing her first book project, The Right to Opacity, , which engages questions of ethics, alterity, and recognition in feminist and anti-racist traditions.
Mona Sloane, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Data Science and Media Studies at the University of Virginia (UVA). As a sociologist, she studies the intersection of technology and society, specifically in the context of AI design, use, and policy. At UVA, she is a Faculty Lead in the Digital Technology and Democracy Lab at the Karsh Institute of Democracy, Affiliated Faculty with the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality, and Faculty Affiliate with the Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment (TYDE) research initiative.
Public Finance, Labor Economics, Health Economics, Industrial Organization
Emily Burrill is a scholar of twentieth century West African history and the history of gender and sexuality in French empire. Her scholarship and teaching explore historical questions of gender and belonging in colonial and postcolonial communities, law and society, rights formation, and feminist theory. At UVA, she is Associate Professor in the Department of History and a member of the John Nau, III History and Principles of Democracy Lab.
A historian of South Asia, Indrani Chatterjee researches the intersections of gender, religion and politics between the late 17th and 20th centuries.
Dee Payton works primarily in analytic feminist philosophy and social metaphysics, with a focus on material analyses of oppression, topics in the philosophy of sexuality, and methodologies in social metaphysics and analytic feminism.
A music historian who works across disciplines and creative practices Bonnie Gordon has published widely on Early Modern music and gender and Early American Sound. Her latest book Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano and other strange sounds was published in 2023. Monteverdi’s Unruly Women appeared in 2004 and The Courtesans Arts; a co-edited essay collection appeared in 2006. She is currently working on a new book on sound in Early America.
I am a professor of history at the University of Virginia. I teach survey courses on 18th-20th century South Asia as well as upper-level seminar coures and graduate courses on the Partition of the Indian subcontinent and blasphemy politics in South Asia.
Dr. Kaufmann is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy, Ethics & Entrepreneurship area at the Darden School of Business. A business ethicist by training, she uses both normative and empirical methods in her research on contemporary issues in business ethics, including social & environmental impact, impact investing, and feminist approaches to organizing.
Dr. Tobbell’s research examines the complex political, economic, and social relationships that developed among academic institutions, governments, and the health care industry in the decades after World War II and assesses the implications of those relationships for the current health care system.
