I work in the Scholars' Lab.

I yam what I yam and that's all I yam!

-- Popeye, The Sailor Man

Jie Zhang is a graduate student in the East Asian Studies MA program. She holds interest in East Asian Buddhist art, GIS mapping and museum studies. Jie joins the University of Virginia from the National University of Singapore, where she used GIS to map the historical origins of Chinese immigrants to the Straits Settlement using data obtained from their tombstones. Jie hopes to develop skills in 3D scanning, AR, VR, spatial mapping and other digital tools through the DH program.

Alexander Rudenshiold is a Media, Culture, and Technology M.A. student in the Media Studies program at the University of Virginia, studying livestreaming, memes, and internet cultures.

Natalie Chavez is pursuing an MA in Architectural History, with dual certificates in Digital Humanities and Historic Preservation.  Her research examines contested landscapes, fortified architecture, and border conditions, particularly within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  Natalie is currently the 2021 Sara Shallenberger Brown Fellow for the Center for Cultural Landscapes, president of the UVA Society of Architectural Historians, and 2021 3D Cultural Heritage Informatics Intern.  Natalie was previously awarded her professional five-year architecture degree from Virginia T

Loren has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and French and Francophone Studies and a Master of Science degree in Theory and Practice in Teacher Education from the University of Tennessee Knoxville. In 2021, she earned a Master of Arts degree in French here at the University of Virginia. Before coming to UVA, she taught English and French at the secondary level for several years first outside of Montpellier, France and then in the Richmond, Virginia area. In addition to her studies at UVA, she has completed coursework with the Rare Book School here in Charlottesville.

Louis P. Nelson is Professor of Architectural History and the Vice Provost for Academic Outreach in the Office of the Provost. He is a specialist in the built environments of the early modern Atlantic world, with published work on the American South, the Caribbean, and West Africa. His current research engages the spaces of enslavement in West Africa and in the Americas, working to document and interpret the buildings and landscapes that shaped the trans-Atlantic slave trade. He has a second collaborative project working to understand the University of Virginia as a landscape of slavery.

Visiting Fellow, IATH