A theatre is just an empty space — until we fill it. In the light of our imaginations it becomes a place; in the rhythm of our expressions it becomes a moment. A time to witness, to engage with ideas, to feel alive, to experience culture in community.
Culture Unbound, the 2026–2027 Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Theatre, calls for an expansive understanding of culture as something not only inherited, but actively made, contested, and transformed through artistic practice, public dialogue, and collective imagination.
To be unbound is to orient toward horizons, to recognize culture as future-seeking, relational, and always evolving. Culture Unbound is a celebration of the many voices, histories, and practices that shape our lives. It is also a call to courage — to imagine boldly, to ask difficult questions, and to take part in building a more just world and a liberated future together through art.
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 5:30 p.m.
Cousins Studio Theatre
Thursday, October 22, 6 p.m.
Cousin Studio Theatre
Senior gains first-hand experience in the legislative process through internships with Democratic and Republican congressmen.
Transformational gift will support the priorities of the Accelerate Richmond campaign, including a $50M matching fund for endowed scholarships.
Journalism professor Karen Masterson authored this piece, originally published in The Conversation.
Research by behavioral neuroscience professor Kelly Lambert is featured.
Research by behavioral neuroscience professor Kelly Lambert is featured.
Psychology professor Arryn Robbins authored this piece.
Do you envision college as a place where your professor’s office hours are spent in deep conversation about topics beyond this week’s assignment? Where you can work side-by-side with a faculty member on cutting-edge research that is published in a professional journal?
In A&S, our faculty are experts on the cutting edge of their fields. While they could work in some of the top research institutions in the world, our faculty chose Richmond because they believe in educating tomorrow's leaders and are passionate about mentoring and sharing their knowledge with students.
Jeffrey Hass, professor of sociology, published “Discursive Power, Civilian Agency, Wartime Duress, and Resilience: Letters to the Authorities in the Blockade of Leningrad” in the Russian Review and “Soviet Power and Civilian Agency in the First Months of World War II: the View from Leningrad” in The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review.
Ignatius G. D Suglo, assistant professor of rhetoric & communication studies, published “Performative belonging and embodied meaning-making in Africa-China encounters” in Text and Performance Quarterly.
Kathryn H. Jacobsen, William E. Cooper Distinguished University Chair and professor of health studies, served as a Higher Education Ambassador for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) during the 2025-2026 academic year and will serve as a Distinguished Ambassador for CFR Education in 2026-2027.
Christopher Shugrue, assistant professor of chemistry, published “N-[3-(N-tert-Butoxycarbonylaminooxy)propyl]-2-[2-(3-butynylcarbonylamino)ethylthio]-1,3-benzothiazole-6-carboxamide” in Molbank along with students Gabbie Meisner, ’29, and Nora Veigas, ’28.
