Lisa Channer: Documenting the Personal and Political
May 8, 2025
March 1, 2025
Yuko Taniguchi is an assistant professor in the Center for Learning Innovation at the University of Minnesota Rochester and joined the Institute for Advanced Study as a Residential Faculty Fellow in Fall 2024.
February 17, 2025
The Institute for Advanced Study is delighted to announce twelve new Residential Faculty Fellows for 2025–2026.
October 21, 2024
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and Liberal Arts Engagement Hub (The Hub) are pleased to announce Arianna Genis as Visionary Community Fellow for 2024-25. Genis will receive $10,000 and spend a year in residence at the IAS while pursuing her research and developing community programming in collaboration with the IAS and The Hub.
Fernando Burga, former IAS Residential Faculty Fellow, was recently a guest on the Rules of Engagement podcast produced by the Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC).
Eight graduate students from the University of Minnesota have been selected to participate in the Summer 2024 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellowship.
May 13, 2024
For Isaac Espósto, a 2023–2024 Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, the borders and walls along the U.S. and Mexico represent far more than just territorial boundaries. Their research looks at how the very architecture and spatial design of the borderlands purposefully produce categories of race, gender, and citizenship status that enable violence and determine whose mobility is criminalized or allowed.
Dr. Rachel Hardeman, former IAS Residential Faculty Fellow and founding director of the Center for Antiracism for Health Equity, has been named to the 2024 TIME100.
April 15, 2024
Treasure Tinsley is a graduate student in History in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She is an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study for 2023–2024 and is developing her dissertation project, “Problem Property: Reproductive and Carceral Logics of Urban Renewal in the Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood, 1950–1990.”
IAS Communications and Program Assistant Lucy Bichakhchyan spoke with Tinsley about her work.
Former IAS Residential Fellow (Spring 2009) and University of Minnesota Morris Professor of English Michael Lackey is one of five scholars from across the United States to be invited to lecture and work at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz as part of the Obama Fellowship program.