Isabel Bielat is a second-year PhD student in the Department of History, where she studies protest, reform, empire, and democratic expression through and beyond the contexts of British imperial history and the global nineteenth century. Bielat currently works as a research assistant on Alison Booth's Collective Biographies of Women.

My name is Tom and I graduated with a BA in English from University College London in 2003 and an MA in Issues in Modern Culture, also from University College London, in 2004. Since then, I’ve worked in publishing, as a literary agent, and in publishing tech and mobile games. I am the author of A Mysterious Something In The Light: The Life of Raymond Chandler (Aurum Press 2012 / Chicago Review Press 2014 /  Benvira 2014 / University of Nanking Press 2020) and I have reviewed books for The Observer, The Irish Times and The Spectator.

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.