Meet Florencia Pech-Cárdenas, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow at the IAS, who is working on a project exploring the intersections among tourism, handicraft production, gender, livelihoods and forest management in Maya communities of Yucatan, Mexico.

We are delighted to announce the IAS Research and Creative Collaboratives for 2021–2022. These self-initiated groups represent some of the most innovative work at the University. Their work—be it the development of a performance piece, the exploration of a concept or research area through different disciplines, or the creation of a supportive intellectual community—exemplifies synergistic interdisciplinary activity, and transcends departmental structures.

We are pleased to announce the hire of Alexandra Peck, who will be joining the IAS this August for a two-year appointment as an early-career scholar as part of the Environmental Stewardship, Place, and Community Initiative.

Meet Emily Winderman, a Spring 2021 IAS Residential Faculty Fellow, working on the project “Back-Alley Abortion: A History of Sanitary Rhetoric and Reproductive Injustice.” By tracing how the phrase “back-alley abortion” circulated through different media outlets, institutions, and advocacy circles, I seek to discern how assumptions of unsanitary space get laminated onto non-white medical practitioners.