Eight graduate students from the University of Minnesota have been selected to participate in the Summer 2022 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. Funded by MnDRIVE and co-sponsored by the IAS, DASH, Research Computing, and the Informatics Institute at the University of Minnesota, 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!

Each Fellow’s work will relate to one (or more) of five MnDRIVE areas of concentration: robotics, global food, environment, brain conditions, or cancer clinical trials. Learn more about MnDRIVE and the five areas here.

Summer 2022 Fellows

• Catherine Bruns
  “Wine, Water, and Ways of Life: Mapping Community Wine Knowledge in Andalusia, Spain”
  Communication Studies
  MnDRIVE Thematic Areas: Global Food Ventures & Environment
   
• Kadir Yavuz Emiroglu
  “Mapping Interviews in Ankara: Seeking Human within an Authoritarian City”
  Anthropology
  MnDRIVE Thematic Area: Environment
   
• Isaac Espósto
  “The Architecture and Algorithms of Borderland Confinement”
  Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
  MnDRIVE Thematic Areas: Robotics & Environment
   
• Aidan Neher
  “Network Analysis of Minnesota’s Aquatic Invasive Species Information Flows”
  Biostatistics
  MnDRIVE Thematic Area: Environment
   
• Florencia Pech Cardenas
  “Linking TEK with Western Ecological Knowledge to Understand Forest Management and Governance in Maya Communities”
  Forest Resources
  MnDRIVE Thematic Area: Environment
   
• Katherine Pierpont
  “Building Community: Mapping the property of 12th century sex workers”
  History
  MnDRIVE Thematic Area: Environment
   
• Pawan Sharma
  “Moving Tracts : Cuisines, Cultures, Communities from South Asia”
  Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
  MnDRIVE Thematic Area: Global Food Ventures
   
• Michael Valdez
  “Palestine in your Parish: Church Performance and the Shaping of British Public Opinion on Middle East Expansion, 1891 to 1917”
  Theatre Arts & Dance
  MnDRIVE Thematic Areas: Global Food Ventures & Environment