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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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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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Meet a MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellow: Christian Bell

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Meet Christian Bell, a performance practitioner and scholar working with Citizen Science data and site-specific performances. Christian is a summer 2021 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellow, working in the MnDRIVE category of global food.

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Meet a MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellow: Adam Negri

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Meet Adam Negri, who is studying traumatic brain injury diagnosis and health inequities. Adam is a summer 2021 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellow, working in the MnDRIVE category of brain conditions.

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Meet a MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellow: Stephanie Lindquist

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Meet Stephanie Lindquist, an artist and urban farmer working on food sovereignty. Stephanie is a summer 2021 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellow, working in the MnDRIVE category of global food.

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Meet a MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellow: Snigdha Kumar

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Meet Snigdha Kumar, a PhD candidate in Sociology working with Big Data and finance. Snigdha is a summer 2021 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellow, working in the MnDRIVE category of robotics.

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