PVI Collective

Denise Walsh

Associate Professor, University of Virginia

Co-Director of the PVI Collective

Co-Founder of The Backlash Project

Walsh is an Associate Professor of Politics and Women, Gender & Sexuality and co-director of the PVI Collective. Her current book project, Nationalizing Rights, is a comparative study of minority...

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Nicholas Winter

Associate Professor, University of Virginia

Nicholas Winter is Associate Professor in the Politics Department and co-director of the PVI Collaborative. His research examines the role of race, gender, and sexuality in public opinion and...

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Hyeonjin Bak

2019-2020 Graduate Fellow

Hyeonjin Bak is a fourth year PhD student in the Psychology Department. She is broadly interested in using social psychology to understand and identify factors that contribute to confronting...

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Grace Alvino

2019-2020 Graduate Fellow

Grace Alvino is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English. Her work emerges from the intersection of literary scholarship, American and cultural studies, and the digital humanities...

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Diane-Jo Bart-Plange

2019-2020 Graduate Fellow

Diane-Jo Bart-Plange is a fourth year PhD student in social psychology. Her research focuses on the maintenance and reproduction of racism on the individual, institutional, and structural levels of...

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Elizabeth Cable

2019-2020 Graduate Fellow

Elizabeth Cable is a fifth year PhD Candidate in the Department of Religious Studies. She is interested in broadly liberationist theologies, including Latin American, feminist, Womanist, black, queer...

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Simone Jaeckl

2019-2020 Graduate Fellow

Simone Jaeckl, RN, MSN, is a third year PhD student in the School of Nursing at University of Virginia. Her research is situated at the intersection of health, law and gender-based violence with a...

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Amy Laboe

2019-2020 Graduate Fellow

Amy Laboe is a third year doctoral student in Social Foundations of Education.  Previously, she taught ESL (English as a Second Language) in Minneapolis, Minnesota and abroad in Ecuador, Colombia...

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Jessica Mazen

2019-2020 Graduate Fellow

Jessica Mazen is a fifth year PhD student in social and quantitative psychology. Broadly, her research focuses on better understanding speciesism, or a set of socially shared beliefs that...

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Meredith Powers

2019-2020 Graduate Fellow

Meredith Powers is a second year doctoral student in Clinical-School Psychology at the Curry School of Education and Human Development. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Meredith worked as a...

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