Lectures & grants
Grants
Council on Library and Information Resources
$7,635
For Bearing Witness to Enslaved Women and Their Future Issue and Increase in the Massie Family’s 18th- and 19th-Century Reproductive Labor Systems: To share knowledge through open access platforms about the reproductive labor of enslaved women with descendants, the public, and scholars.
This grant is a subaward from Duke University via CLIR’s Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices program.
UVA Arts Council
$10,000
For Zines Now!: To unite, expand, and build enthusiasm for the resources and initiatives for making, sharing, and displaying zines at UVA through a zine-making workshop series, exhibition events, and lecture.
Lectures series
Tracy W. and Katherine W. McGregor Distinguished Lecture in American History
“The Fall of North America’s Ancient Cities and the Rise of a More Egalitarian Order”
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Kathleen DuVal, Carl W. Ernst Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Will Cochran Library Lecture
“National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America"
Thursday, April 16, 2026
Michael Auslin, Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
William and Rosemary MacIlwaine Lecture in American Literature
“Storytelling as a Super Power”
Thursday, April 2, 2026
Jeanette Walls, New York Times bestselling author
Thomas Jefferson Foundation Lecture
“How Do You Remember the Days of Slavery?”
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard University