Eight graduate students from the University of Minnesota have been selected to participate in the Summer 2021 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellowship.

Fellows will receive $7,000 each to fund research on the humanistic implications of data and its use in one of the five MnDRIVE areas of concentration: robotics, global food, environment, brain conditions, or cancer clinical trials. Co-sponsored by the IAS, DASH, and Research Computing, this unique fellowship supports non-traditional scholarship and engagement that might not normally fit within standard disciplinary graduate research. We look forward to working with this exciting cohort over the summer!

Summer 2021 Fellows:

• Nicholas Bauch
  “The Shape of Water: Re-mediating limnological shape files into physical form” 
  Art, College of Liberal Arts
  MnDRIVE Area: Environment
   
• Christian Bell
  “Performing Citizen Science: Facilitating Interdisciplinary Creative Collaborations for a Public Audience at Franconia Sculpture Park” 
  Theatre Arts and Dance, College of Liberal Arts
  MnDRIVE Area: Global Food
   
• Elizabeth Calhoun
  “Our Unhoused Neighbors Are Our Neighbors: Encampments, Housing Affordability and Gentrification in Minneapolis”
  Geography, Environment, and Society; College of Liberal Arts
  MnDRIVE Area: Environment
   
• Yun Feng
  “Between Limited Physical Space and Limitless Digital Space: Shifting Subjectivities within ‘Taobao Villages’ in Contemporary Rural China”
  Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
  MnDRIVE Areas: Robotics, Global Food
   
• Snigdha Kumar
  “Banking on/with Big Data: Decoding Value in India's Financial Technology Industry”
  Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
  MnDRIVE Area: Robotics
   
• Stephanie Lindquist
  “Intergenerational Data in Art: Women Relearning Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Gorama Mende, Sierra Leone”
  Art, College of Liberal Arts
  MnDIVE Area: Global Food
   
• Adam Negri
  “CTE and Research Paradigms: Advocating for Equity in Trauma-Related Brain Disease”
  History of Medicine, Medical School
  MnDRIVE Area: Brain Conditions
   
• Brieanna Watters
  “Geographic Isolation and Indefinite Detention: Spatial and Temporal Inequality among American Indians in Pre-Trial Detention”
  Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
  MnDRIVE Areas: Robotics, Environment

Learn more about Human in the Data and the MnDRIVE Fellowship.