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Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
Introducing Elizabeth Wrigley-Field (IAS Faculty Fellow, Fall 2020), working on “Race and Deaths from Infectious Diseases in the United States, 1900–1950.” “How did racial and ethnic inequality in mortality change as U.S. racial categories shifted in the early and mid-twentieth century?” she asks. “What would it look like to treat racial inequality in lifespan with the same urgency that we treat pandemics?”
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Kristine Miller
Introducing Kristine Miller (IAS Faculty Fellow for fall 2020), at work on “Memoir as a Mode of Inquiry and Expression in Environmental Design and Planning for Social Justice.” She says, “I will be working in collaboration with Professor Gail Dubrow to deepen and complicate my understanding of how story and memoir might inform equity-driven environmental design scholarship, teaching and learning, and action. . . .”
Human in the Data Fellowship Profile: Milica Milic-Kolarevic
During the summer of 2020, as a fellow of Human in the Data MNDrive program, I am working on developing an article that critically engages with the changing legal terrain of healthcare in Serbia.
Human in the Data Fellowship Profile: Jennifer Nicklay
As a community scientist standing with urban growers in Minneapolis/St. Paul, my research focuses on integrating grower knowledge and science to both support their growing practices AND advocate for policy/systems change. During my time as a Human in the Data fellow...
Human in the Data Fellowship Profile: Yuming Fang
Yuming Fang is studying the role social media bots have in the amplification of anti vaccination conversations on social media platforms.
Human in the Data Fellowship Profile: Rebecca Walker
Rebecca Walker is using cartography to highlight inequalities in environmental and health decision making and to empower suppressed community voices.
Human in the Data Fellowship Profile: Prerna and Hayden Teachout
An artist duo—Prerna and Hayden—are committed to interdisciplinary practices spanning the humanities and social and physical sciences, they have collaborated and independently worked on projects examining the actualization of invisible or virtual boundaries within cultural production.
Human in the Data Fellowship Profile: Johnathan Hardy
Johnathan Hardy is hoping to rewrite the methodological foundation for researchers with the help of birds from the Qing Dynasty.
Human in the Data Fellowship Profile: Sultan Toprak Oker
Sultan Toprak Oker is using cutting-edge technology to analyze historical alcohol networks in 17th century Galata.
Human in the Data Fellowship Profile: Manami Bhattacharya
Manami Bhattacharya is looking to collect that data that tells researchers how mental health and breast cancer are connected.