Elizabeth Baughan, associate professor of classics and archaeology, Lauren Henley, assistant professor of leadership studies, and Beth Zizzamia, Special Analysis Lab GIS operations manager, along with students Sydney Cameron, ’26, Alex Harry, ’26, Angela Nguyen, ’27, and Katherine Stobie, ’26, presented “Students Collaborating with Community in Richmond’s Black Cemeteries” at the IMPACT National Conference.
Peter Kaufman, professor of leadership studies, published Arendt's Disappointments and Our New Beginnings: Citizenship and Democracy Reimagined with Edinburgh University Press.
Vladimir Chlouba, assistant professor of leadership studies, published the article "The Precolonial Origins of African Nationalism" in Comparative Political Studies.
David Wilkins, professor of leadership studies, published the chapter "Moving Past the Flawed Equations of Blood and Property" in the edited volume "Beyond Blood Quantum: Refusal to Disappear" published by Fulcrum Publishing.
Julian Hayter was promoted to professor of leadership studies. He is a historian whose research focuses on modern U.S. history, American political development, African-American history, and the American civil rights movement.
Christopher von Rueden was promoted to professor of leadership studies. An anthropologist with expertise in traditional human societies, his research focuses on how humans form status hierarchies, why we evolved to do so, and the demographic and ecological factors that cause our hierarchies to be more or less coercive.
Lauren Henley, assistant professor of leadership studies, published “Review of 'Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation' by Bruce Dorsey” in The Journal of American History.
Tom Shields, associate professor and chair of graduate education & associate professor of leadership studies, presented the Can We Learn & Live Together 2.0: Housing & School Segregation in the Richmond Region report at the National Coalition on School Diversity 5th National Conference on School Diversity at Georgetown University Law Center.
Peart co-publishes article on how economist James Buchanan might have viewed debt repudiation and reparations to African Americans
Volha Chykina, assistant professor of leadership studies, co-published "An Empirical Concern of the First Amendment: An Essay on the Benefits of Academic Freedom" in The Journal of College and University Law.
Sam Director, assistant professor of leadership studies, published "Bipolar disorder and competence" in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
