News & Stories
Two Short-Term Fellowships Available at the IAS!
This May-June, the IAS will be bringing together two cohorts of six virtual fellows to meet for a total of 8 sessions and receive $2,000. The two themes are “Water, Equity, and Justice” and “The Mission of the Land Grant/Land Grab University.” DEADLINE EXTENDED: Applications due Friday, April 2 at noon.
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Hassan Abdel Salam
Meet Hassan Abdel Salam (IAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2021), working on his project The Human Rights Fatwas: How Orthodox Jurists Deliver Human Rights Decisions in their Adjudication of Islamic Law, which asks how orthodox jurists advance human rights.
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: SeungGyeong (Jade) Ji
Meet SeungGyeong (Jade) Ji (Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow at the IAS, 2020-21), working on her project Rights and Redemption: Politics of Abortion in South Korea 1974-2019, which uses ethnography to examine the contested meanings of abortion across social, cultural, and legal domains in South Korea.
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Jason Kerwin
Meet Jason Kerwin, (IAS Faculty Fellow, spring 2021), working on his project, Overcoming Procrastination and Other Behavioral Barriers in the HIV Epidemic, which attempts to tackle that challenge by using appointments and financial commitment devices to try to overcome procrastination in HIV testing.
Meet an IAS Staff Member: Denise Pike
Introducing Denise Pike, the new Project Manager for Minnesota Transform, who will be facilitating partnerships, collaborations, and humanities projects for the initiative.
IAS Reads: February 2021
This month, we’re reading up for events featuring two books—one on how we can reshape the University to work more thoughtfully with the greater public (Generous Thinking), and another on the ongoing resistance and reclamation of Indigenous peoplehood and identity (Translated Nation). Please join us for these events, or read along with us!
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Jennifer Row
Meet Jennie Row (IAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2021), working on her second book in progress, The Body Perfect: the Aesthetics of Ableism in the Francophone Early Modern World, which explores how able bodiedness and disability became—crucially—racialized and gendered in the early modern period.
IAS in the News, February 2021
This month, IAS Fellows past and present used their expertise to inform stories about the significant drop in life expectancy for the Black population; how video and audio from the January 6 insurrection created new publics; the new facial recognition ban in Minneapolis; and more.
Announcing the 2021–2022 IAS Faculty Fellows!
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, they constitute a supportive interdisciplinary intellectual community.
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Rachel Hardeman
Meet Rachel Hardeman (IAS Faculty Fellow, Fall 2020), working on a project that explores the over-policing of Black female bodies at the intersections of: police violence, in health care delivery resulting in maternal mortality and morbidity and in abortion access and the restrictive policies sweeping the country on reproductive health outcomes for Black mothers.