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Arianna Genis named Visionary Community Fellow for 2024-25
The Institute for Advanced Study and Liberal Arts Engagement Hub are pleased to announce Arianna Genis as Visionary Community Fellow for 2024-25. Genis will spend a year in residence at the IAS while pursuing her research and developing community programming in collaboration with the IAS and The Hub.
Fernando Burga Discusses Urban Food Deserts on UROC's Rules of Engagement
Fernando Burga, former IAS Residential Faculty Fellow, was recently a guest on the Rules of Engagement podcast produced by the Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC). Burga, an Assistant Professor in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, joined host and UROC executive director Makeda Zulu to discuss his research into fast food and urban food deserts.
Announcing the 2024 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Summer Graduate Fellows
Eight graduate students from the University of Minnesota have been selected to participate in the Summer 2024 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellowship. Their research projects will explore the humanistic implications of data.
Isaac Espósto: Mapping the Architectures of Borderland Confinement
For Isaac Espósto, a 2023–2024 Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, the borders and walls along the U.S. and Mexico represent far more than just territorial boundaries. Their research looks at how the very architecture and spatial design of the borderlands purposefully produce categories of race, gender, and citizenship status that enable violence and determine whose mobility is criminalized or allowed.
Dr. Rachel Hardeman named to TIME’s annual TIME100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world
Dr. Rachel Hardeman, former IAS Residential Faculty Fellow and founding director of the Center for Antiracism for Health Equity, has been named to the 2024 TIME100, TIME's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Treasure Tinsley: Exploring the Racial Politics of Urban Renewal in Cedar-Riverside
Treasure Tinsley, 2023-2024 Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, discusses the clash between top-down development and community resilience in the local neighborhood of Cedar-Riverside. Her research uncovers the racial and gender dynamics shaping the urban landscape.
Former IAS Residential Fellow Michael Lackey Named Obama Institute Fellow
Former IAS Residential Fellow (Spring 2009) and University of Minnesota Morris Professor of English Michael Lackey is one of five scholars from across the United States to be invited to lecture and work at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz as part of the Obama Fellowship program.
Announcing the 2024–2025 IAS Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows!
We are delighted to announce the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows joining the Institute for Advanced Study for 2024–2025: Tyler Akeem Anderson (American Studies) and Richard Lim (American Studies).
Announcing the 2024–2025 IAS Residential Faculty Fellows!
The Institute for Advanced Study is delighted to announce our Residential Faculty Fellows for 2024–2025. Together with our Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows and other scholars in residence, they constitute a supportive interdisciplinary intellectual community in which they work intensively on their own research and creative projects and gather regularly to collaborate, discuss their work, and exchange ideas.
Announcing the 2023–2024 IAS Faculty Fellows!
We are delighted to announce the IAS Residential Faculty Fellows for 2023–2024. Faculty fellows spend a semester in residence at the IAS. Together with our Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows, they constitute a supportive interdisciplinary intellectual community.