Scholars
Alumni Fellows
Our alumni fellows are those faculty or former students who participated in the Institute’s intellectual community while at the University of Virginia, and who have since migrated to other intellectual or institutional centers throughout the world.
Habib Babai
Director of the Department of Islam and West Studies
Academy of Islamic Science and Culture, Qom, Iran
Wilson Brissett
Assistant Professor of American Literature
The United States Air Force Academy
Mary Caler
Doctoral Candidate in Sociology
University of Virginia
Pamela D. Cochran
Visiting Asst. Professor of Religion
Sewanee, the University of the South
David Decosimo
Assistant Professor of Theology
Loyola University Maryland
Jeffrey Dill
Research Assistant Professor of Social Thought, Research Director of the Agora Institute
Andrew Douglas
Visiting Assistant Professor
Loyola University New Orleans
David Franz
Director
Shafter Schools Project
Jonas Hart
Doctoral Candidate in Sociology
University of Virginia
Richard Horner
Executive Director
Christian Study Center of Gainesville, Florida
Daniel Johnson
Associate Professor of Sociology
Gordon College
Kristen Deede Johnson
Associate Director, Crossroads Project
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hope College
Steven L. Jones
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Grove City College
Kelli Joseph
Fulbright Scholar
Madrid, Spain
Ty Landrum
Tony Lin
Lecturer in Sociology
University of Virginia
William Lockhart
Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Tartan Scholars Program
McLennan Community College
Glenn Lucke
Founder
Docent Group
Jonathan Malesic
Assistant Professor of Theology
King's College
Betsy Messard
Doctoral Candidate in Religious Studies
University of Virginia
Johann Neem
Assistant Professor of History
Western Washington University
Scott Nesbit
Associate Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab
University of Richmond
Irene Oh
Assistant Professor of Religion and Director of Peace Studies
University of Miami
Tatiana Omeltchenko
Doctoral Candidate in Sociology
University of Virginia
Erik Owens
Associate Director, Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life
Boston College
Hilde Restad
Senior Researcher
Norwegian Institute for International Affairs
Lynn D. Robinson
Program Manager, Principled Entrepreneurship Initiative
The Charles G. Koch Foundation
George Sanker
Head of School
The Covenant School, Charlottesville, VA
Ranjit Singh
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Regina Smardon
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Methodist University
Edward Song
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Louisiana State University
Mark Wild
Associate Professor, College of Natural and Social Sciences
California State University, Los Angeles
Free Williams
Doctoral Candidate in Religious Studies
University of Virginia
Who We Are
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture is an interdisciplinary research center and intellectual community at the University of Virginia committed to understanding contemporary cultural change and its individual and social consequences, training young scholars, and providing intellectual leadership in service to the public good.
