News & Stories
Meet a Short-Term Fellow: Christian Bell
Meet Christian Bell, a short-term fellow in the Mission of the Land-Grant/Land-Grab University cohort.
Announcing the 2021 Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant Awardees!
We are delighted to announce the 2021 Humanities Without Walls Grand Research Challenge seed grant awardees for projects on methodologies of reciprocity and redistribution!
Meet an IAS Staff Member: Andrea Manolov
I am excited to be joining the IAS as a Media Specialist for the Minnesota Transform initiative. As a public historian I am passionate about practices of relationship building and collective history writing as a means of transformative justice.
Announcing Issue 18 of Open Rivers, Water Futures
On local and global scales, concerns about our water systems emerge from many directions. This new issue approaches the question of the future of water from a different angle by exploring practices that move us toward desirable futures with water.
Meet a Short-Term Fellow: Kathryn Nuernberger
Meet Kathryn Nuernberger, an IAS Short-Term Fellow in the Water, Equity, and Justice cohort.
Why Canoes? A New Exhibit in the Northrop Gallery
“Why Canoes: Capacious Vessels and Indigenous Futures of Minnesota's Peoples and Places” is now available for an online, virtual tour, as well as at Northrop's fourth-floor gallery. It explores the interconnectedness between the Native Canoe Program, University of Minnesota students, faculty, staff, and members of three Indigenous communities around Mni Sota Makoce (Minnesota).
Moving Cell in 6 Questions: Looking Back at IAS Projects Over 15 Years
Last year, the IAS turned fifteen. In that time, the Institute has incubated several projects that have gone on to flourish and grow larger than anyone might have expected at the outset. This series showcases where those projects began, where they are now, and how they got there. This is the story of how two University of Minnesota faculty in two totally different fields may have never met if not for the IAS.
Announcing the First Short-Term Fellow Cohorts at the IAS
From May-June, the two new cohorts of our pilot short-term fellows program will gather virtually to share research and make productive connections. Open to all University of Minnesota system faculty, graduate students, staff, and to community members across the state of Minnesota, we are pleased to say we received an overwhelming number of applications.
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Emily Mitamura
Meet Emily Mitamura, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow at the IAS, working to develop her dissertation research which centers the afterlife of the Cambodian Genocide, in particular the compounding of physical and bodily legacies with global performative and narrative demands placed on those interred in its wake.
Announcing the Summer 2021 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellows
Eight graduate students from the University of Minnesota have been selected to participate in the Summer 2021 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellowship, presented by the IAS, DASH, and Research Computing.