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.
Meet a Short-Term Fellow: Kathryn Nuernberger
Meet Kathryn Nuernberger, an IAS Short-Term Fellow in the Water, Equity, and Justice cohort.
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.
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Florencia Pech-Cárdenas
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.
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Tammy Berberi
Meet Tammy Berberi—IAS Faculty Fellow for Spring 2021—working on Disability and Joy, a literature review that will serve as the foundation for a series of qualitative interviews with disabled people about their experiences of joy.
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Emily Winderman
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.
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Hassan Abdel Salam
Meet Hassan Abdel Salam (IAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2021), working on his project The Human Rights Fatwas: How Orthodox Jurists Deliver Human Rights Decisions in their Adjudication of Islamic Law, which asks how orthodox jurists advance human rights.
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: SeungGyeong (Jade) Ji
Meet SeungGyeong (Jade) Ji (Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow at the IAS, 2020-21), working on her project Rights and Redemption: Politics of Abortion in South Korea 1974-2019, which uses ethnography to examine the contested meanings of abortion across social, cultural, and legal domains in South Korea.
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Jason Kerwin
Meet Jason Kerwin, (IAS Faculty Fellow, spring 2021), working on his project, Overcoming Procrastination and Other Behavioral Barriers in the HIV Epidemic, which attempts to tackle that challenge by using appointments and financial commitment devices to try to overcome procrastination in HIV testing.
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Jennifer Row
Meet Jennie Row (IAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2021), working on her second book in progress, The Body Perfect: the Aesthetics of Ableism in the Francophone Early Modern World, which explores how able bodiedness and disability became—crucially—racialized and gendered in the early modern period.