In the Media

A Scholarship in Telling Stories in the African Diaspora

Oct. 9, 2024 Diverse Issues In Higher Education

Faculty member(s) featured: Christopher Brooks, Ph.D.

Narco Cult? Inside the Real Santa Muerte Religious Movement [Podcast]

Sept. 26, 2024 Borderland with Vincent 'Rocco' Vargas

Faculty member(s) featured: Andrew Chestnut, Ph.D.

El Centro: VCU’s empowering commitment to the Latinx community

Sept. 26, 2024 Commonwealth Times

Faculty member(s) featured: Anita Nadal

Enlightenment Over: Santa Muerte in LA and TX

Sept. 20, 2024 The Hayride

Faculty member(s) featured: Andrew Chestnut, Ph.D.

‘A home away from home’: ‘El Centro’ launches at VCU

Sept. 19, 2024 WWBT

Faculty member(s) featured: Anita Nadal

Demon-Worship At The Flea Market

Sept. 18, 2024 Rod Dreher

Faculty member(s) featured: Andrew Chestnut, Ph.D.

A new study challenges the idea that Rapa Nui islanders caused an ‘ecocide’

June 21, 2024 Science News

Faculty member(s) featured: Christopher Stevenson, Ph.D.

Satellite imagery may provide a missing puzzle piece in Easter Island saga Katie Hunt

June 21, 2024 CNN

Faculty member(s) featured: Christopher Stevenson, Ph.D.

Mexican Church criticizes Santa Muerte T-shirt supporting President López Obrador

April 26, 2024 Crux Now

Faculty member(s) featured: Andrew Chestnut, Ph.D.

These are the places in CDMX where Santa Muerte is worshiped

April 23, 2024 Infobae

Faculty member(s) featured: Andrew Chestnut, Ph.D.

Politicization of Santa Muerte? What's behind Morena's viral meme

April 23, 2024 Milenio

Faculty member(s) featured: Andrew Chestnut, Ph.D.

Xóchitl Gálvez criticizes Morena for using an image of Santa Muerte: “They no longer hide it”

April 20, 2024 Infobae

Faculty member(s) featured: Andrew Chestnut, Ph.D.

The Vatican’s new statement on trans rights undercuts its attempts at inclusion

April 10, 2024 Vox

Faculty member(s) featured: Andrew Chestnut, Ph.D.

Amid calls for Gaza ceasefire, Richmond City Council restricts public comment

April 2, 2024 VPM

Faculty member(s) featured: Mark Wood, Ph.D.

These City Councils Are Changing Their Public Comment Rules as Gaza Ceasefire Debates Dominate

March 26, 2024 Next City

Faculty member(s) featured: Mark Wood, Ph.D.

Quevedo inmates had their own altar to Santa Muerte

Feb. 8, 2024 Aldia

Faculty member(s) featured: Andrew Chestnut, Ph.D.

Narcotics and evangelism, politics and populism in the 2024 election year

Feb. 4, 2024 Alert24

Faculty member(s) featured: Andrew Chestnut, Ph.D.

French Film Festival in Richmond shutting down

Jan. 24, 2024 Richmond Times-Dispatch

Faculty member(s) featured: Peter Kirkpatrick, Ph.D.

Au Revoir: Richmond’s French Film Festival fades to black

Jan. 22, 2024 Richmond Magazine

Faculty member(s) featured: Peter Kirkpatrick, Ph.D.

Law enforcement, pastors: 'Spiritual battle' being waged at border

Jan. 15, 2024 The Center Square

Faculty member(s) featured: Andrew Chesnut, Ph.D.

The relationship between the Catholic Church and the government of Nicaragua is at its worst. How did it get there?

Jan. 9, 2024 Voz de America

Faculty member(s) featured: Andrew Chestnut, Ph.D.

10 facts you probably don't know about the Virgin of Guadalupe

Dec. 12, 2023 The Yucatan Times

Faculty member(s) featured: Andrew Chestnut, Ph.D.

Apocalyptic fears for end of the world spark ‘perfect hotbed’ for global rise in exorcisms

Nov. 25, 2023 Daily Express US

Faculty member(s) featured: Andrew Chestnut, Ph.D.

A name that pops up in October is Santa Muerte. Who is the death saint?

Oct. 17, 2023 NPR

Faculty member(s) featured: Andrew Chestnut, Ph.D.

Pope warns climate is approaching 'the point of no return'

Oct. 4, 2023 CBC

Faculty member(s) featured: Andrew Chestnut, Ph.D.

The longterm solution to the migrant crisis 'requires investment in the Global South'

Sept. 26, 2023 France 24

Faculty member(s) featured: Andrew Chestnut, Ph.D.