Christopher von Rueden, professor of leadership studies, co-published the article "Why collective music-making is sometimes rare: A study of four indigenous societies" in Evolution and Human Behavior.
Crystal Hoyt, professor of leadership studies and psychology, co-published the article "Gender identity awareness as a shadow pillar of the gender hierarchy: How it can undermine women in leadership" in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research.
Christopher von Rueden, professor of leadership studies, co-published the article “Fiercely egalitarian”: Thematic cross-cultural analysis reveals regularities in the maintenance of egalitarianism across four independent African hunter-gatherer groups in Cross-Cultural Research.
Christopher von Rueden, professor of leadership studies, co-published the article Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study in Evolution and Human Behavior.
Guzel Garifullina, assistant professor of leadership studies, received the 2025 Frank Cass Prize for Best Article published in the journal Democratization for her article "Ambition without Democracy: When the Cautious Seek Office."
Sam Director, assistant professor of leadership studies, published the article "Does Black Box AI in Medicine Compromise Informed Consent?" in Philosophy and Technology.
Elizabeth Baughan, associate professor of classics and archaeology, Lauren Henley, assistant professor of leadership studies, and Beth Zizzamia, Special Analysis Lab GIS operations manager, along with students Sydney Cameron, ’26, Alex Harry, ’26, Angela Nguyen, ’27, and Katherine Stobie, ’26, presented “Students Collaborating with Community in Richmond’s Black Cemeteries” at the IMPACT National Conference.
Peter Kaufman, professor of leadership studies, published Arendt's Disappointments and Our New Beginnings: Citizenship and Democracy Reimagined with Edinburgh University Press.
Vladimir Chlouba, assistant professor of leadership studies, published the article "The Precolonial Origins of African Nationalism" in Comparative Political Studies.
David Wilkins, professor of leadership studies, published the chapter "Moving Past the Flawed Equations of Blood and Property" in the edited volume "Beyond Blood Quantum: Refusal to Disappear" published by Fulcrum Publishing.
Julian Hayter was promoted to professor of leadership studies. He is a historian whose research focuses on modern U.S. history, American political development, African-American history, and the American civil rights movement.
Christopher von Rueden was promoted to professor of leadership studies. An anthropologist with expertise in traditional human societies, his research focuses on how humans form status hierarchies, why we evolved to do so, and the demographic and ecological factors that cause our hierarchies to be more or less coercive.