We are delighted to announce the IAS Residential Faculty Fellows for 2021–2022. 

Faculty fellows spend a semester in residence at the IAS. Together with our Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows (who spend a full academic year in residence), they constitute a supportive interdisciplinary intellectual community in which they work intensively on their own research and creative projects and meet regularly to discuss their work and exchange ideas.

We look forward to welcoming each of these scholars to our fellows community!

Fall 2021

Benjamin Bigelow
“Scandinavian Racial Ecologies”
German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, CLA, Twin Cities

Ann DuHamel
“Prayers for a Feverish Planet: A Musical Exploration of Climate Change”
Music, Humanities, Morris

Zozan Pehlivan
“The Political Ecology of Forced Sedentarization: Herd Dependent Peoples, Climate Change, and the Encroaching State (1850-1950)”
History, CLA, Twin Cities

Scott St George
“Staring Down the Bottom of a Dry Well: Global Society and the Coming Age of Megadrought”
Geography, Environment and Society, CLA, Twin Cities

Shannon Walsh
“Women Confronting Terror: Violence against Women and the State in Central America”
History, Political Science & International Studies, CLA, Duluth

Spring 2022

Tracey Deutsch
“The Julia Child Project”
History, CLA, Twin Cities

Gabriela Spears-Rico
“Mestizo Melancholia and the Legacy of Conquest in Michoacan”
Chicano Latino Studies, CLA, Twin Cities

Fayola Jacobs
“Colonizing Climates: The Intersections of Anti-Blackness, Climate Change, and Urban Planning”
Urban Planning, HHH, Twin Cities

Michelle Phelps
“Police Reform in the Progressive City”
Sociology, CLA, Twin Cities

Shaden Tageldin
“The Place of Africa, in Theory: Of Continents and Their Discontents”
Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, CLA, Twin Cities