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Announcing the Five 2022–2023 IAS Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows!
We are delighted to announce that the five IAS Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows for 2022–2023. Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows spend a year in residence at the IAS alongside our Faculty Fellows and Scholars in Residence.
Announcing the 2022–2023 IAS Faculty Fellows!
We are delighted to announce the IAS Residential Faculty Fellows for 2023–2023. Faculty fellows spend a semester in residence at the IAS. Together with our Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows, they constitute a supportive interdisciplinary intellectual community.
Meet IAS Residential Fellow Ann DuHamel
Ann DuHamel is an associate professor of Music in the Humanities Division at the University of Minnesota at Morris. She joins the IAS as a residential faculty fellow for Fall 2021. Ann is at work on a project titled “Prayers for a Feverish Planet: A Musical Exploration of Climate Change,” which unites music and climate change in an attempt to expand and revolutionize the contemporary piano recital.
Project Update: Alexandra Peck, Visiting Scholar of Indigenous Studies
Meet Alexandra Peck, the Visiting Scholar of Indigenous Studies for the Environmental Stewardship, Place, and Community Initiative. Learn more about her ongoing project nearly 400 Indigenous S’Klallam landmarks and sacred sites along western Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, “Mapping Multivocality: Documenting Changes in the S’Klallam World Through Ethnogeography.”
Meet Minnesota Transform Postdoctoral Associate Ricardo Velasco Trujillo
Ricardo Velasco Trujillo is a documentarian and cultural studies scholar. He earned his PhD in Latin American Studies with Portfolio Certificates in Cultural Studies and Museum Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020. Ricardo joins the IAS community of scholars as the Minnesota Transform Postdoctoral Associate.
Meet IAS Residential Fellow Cassius Adair
Cassius Adair joins the IAS as an American Council of Learned Societies Visiting Fellow. He is at work on a project titled “The Transgender Internet,” which brings together transgender theory and computer history to understand trans history not just as a genealogy of in-the-streets resistance, but also as enmeshed within dominant political formations, media infrastructures, and information systems.
Meet IAS Residential Fellow Benjamin Bigelow
Meet Benjamin Bigelow, residential faculty fellow at the IAS for Fall 2021, working on a project about the complexity and diversity of Scandinavian identity.
Meet IAS Residential Fellow Nina Medvedeva
Meet Nina Medvedeva, an interdisciplinary doctoral fellow for 2021–2022 at the IAS working on a dissertation about the political economy of short-term rentals, the evolving concept of home, and the racialized and gendered history of urban development.
Meet IAS Residential Fellow Zozan Pehlivan
Meet Zozan Pehlivan, IAS Residential Faculty Fellow for Fall 2021. She is at work on a project demonstrating the diverse impacts of El Niño-related climate fluctuations on peasants and pastoralists in late Ottoman Kurdistan/Armenia.
Meet IAS Residential Fellow Shannon Drysdale Walsh
Meet Shannon Drysdale Walsh, an IAS residential fellow for Fall 2021. She is at work on a project titled “Women Confronting Terror: Violence against Women and the State in Central America,” a comparative case study based on 22 months of fieldwork observations and interviews in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.