People
Program Faculty
David Flood
Assistant Professor and Catalyst Program Director
David Flood is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research focuses on class, race, and US politics. In addition to these topics, he has taught extensively in the College on Liberal Arts education and the value and use of a UVA A&S degree in the world beyond the academy. He directs and teaches in the UVA Catalyst Program. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Current Anthropology, Anthropological Quarterly, Ethos, Sapiens, and other venues. He currently serves as co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for the Anthropology of North America, and is a founding editor of Home/Field, an online space for public-facing anthropological work.
Charlie Gleek
Assistant Professor
Charlie Gleek, an intentionally interdisciplinary academic, whose scholarship attends to how bibliographic materiality shapes and informs readers’ literary and cultural interpretations. Professor Gleek also explores themes of place, labor, and literary culture through his creative nonfiction essays. Professor Gleek's writing appears in The Chattahoochee Review, Penumbra: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical and Creative Inquiry, i.e.: inquiry in education, and in other venues.