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Project Update: Alexandra Peck, Visiting Scholar of Indigenous Studies

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Meet Alexandra Peck, the Visiting Scholar of Indigenous Studies for the Environmental Stewardship, Place, and Community Initiative. Learn more about her ongoing project nearly 400 Indigenous S’Klallam landmarks and sacred sites along western Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, “Mapping Multivocality: Documenting Changes in the S’Klallam World Through Ethnogeography.”

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Meet an IAS Collaborative: Fostering Understanding and Promoting Inclusion for Individuals with Disabilities

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Meet the IAS Research and Creative Collaborative, Fostering Understanding and Promoting Inclusion for Individuals with Disabilities. Together with over 30 collaborators, they presented the event Light in the Wella multi-sensory event that uses music as the storyteller to honor people with disabilities and their families, share their stories, and spread hope to others who are on the same journey.

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Meet Minnesota Transform Postdoctoral Associate Ricardo Velasco Trujillo

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Ricardo Velasco Trujillo is a documentarian and cultural studies scholar. He earned his PhD in Latin American Studies with Portfolio Certificates in Cultural Studies and Museum Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020. Ricardo joins the IAS community of scholars as the Minnesota Transform Postdoctoral Associate.

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Meet IAS Residential Fellow Cassius Adair

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Cassius Adair joins the IAS as an American Council of Learned Societies Visiting Fellow. He is at work on a project titled “The Transgender Internet,” which brings together transgender theory and computer history to understand trans history not just as a genealogy of in-the-streets resistance, but also as enmeshed within dominant political formations, media infrastructures, and information systems.

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Meet IAS Residential Fellow Benjamin Bigelow

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Meet Benjamin Bigelow, residential faculty fellow at the IAS for Fall 2021, working on a project about the complexity and diversity of Scandinavian identity.

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IAS Reads: Fall 2021

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IAS Staff and Fellows share books and articles we think you might like, too.

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Meet IAS Residential Fellow Nina Medvedeva

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Meet Nina Medvedeva, an interdisciplinary doctoral fellow for 2021–2022 at the IAS working on a dissertation about the political economy of short-term rentals, the evolving concept of home, and the racialized and gendered history of urban development.

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Meet IAS Residential Fellow Zozan Pehlivan

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Meet Zozan Pehlivan, IAS Residential Faculty Fellow for Fall 2021. She is at work on a project demonstrating the diverse impacts of El Niño-related climate fluctuations on peasants and pastoralists in late Ottoman Kurdistan/Armenia.

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Meet IAS Residential Fellow Shannon Drysdale Walsh

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Meet Shannon Drysdale Walsh, an IAS residential fellow for Fall 2021. She is at work on a project titled “Women Confronting Terror: Violence against Women and the State in Central America,” a comparative case study based on 22 months of fieldwork observations and interviews in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.

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Meet IAS Residential Fellow Sean Drysdale Walsh

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Sean Drysdale Walsh joins the IAS as a scholar in residence for Fall 2021 to work on his project “Moral Psychology and the Ethics of Perpetrator Risk.” Read on to learn more about Sean’s project (and how reducing perpetrator risk is different from someone just being... a good person), and more!

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