News & Stories
TRUTH Project: Towards Recognition and University-Tribal Healing
Learn more about the TRUTH Project, a collaboration between Minnesota Transform and the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council (MIAC). The project was formed as a response to MIAC’s 2020 call on the University’s call to be better relatives to the 11 Tribal Nations, and aims to find ways to transform the University-Tribal relationship.
Announcing the 2022–2023 IAS Faculty Fellows!
We are delighted to announce the IAS Residential Faculty Fellows for 2023–2023. Faculty fellows spend a semester in residence at the IAS. Together with our Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows, they constitute a supportive interdisciplinary intellectual community.
Announcing the Spring 2022 IAS Thursdays Schedule
Registration is now open for our spring semester of IAS Thursday events! Join us for a full season of eclectic, wide-ranging, discussions designed for scholars from all walks of life. Featured guests include Dr. Andrea Roberts, Director of the Texas Freedom Colonies Project; Annastacia Belladonna-Carrera of Common Cause Minnesota; former IAS Residential Fellow Ann DuHamel livestreaming music on the climate crisis from the Morris campus—and many others!
Meet IAS Residential Fellow Ann DuHamel
Ann DuHamel is an associate professor of Music in the Humanities Division at the University of Minnesota at Morris. She joins the IAS as a residential faculty fellow for Fall 2021. Ann is at work on a project titled “Prayers for a Feverish Planet: A Musical Exploration of Climate Change,” which unites music and climate change in an attempt to expand and revolutionize the contemporary piano recital.
Join Our Team: IAS Seeks Program Manager
The IAS seeks an imaginative collaborator with wide interests to join our team as Program Manager. The priority application review date is Monday, December 6, 2021.
Project Update: Alexandra Peck, Visiting Scholar of Indigenous Studies
Meet Alexandra Peck, the Visiting Scholar of Indigenous Studies for the Environmental Stewardship, Place, and Community Initiative. Learn more about her ongoing project nearly 400 Indigenous S’Klallam landmarks and sacred sites along western Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, “Mapping Multivocality: Documenting Changes in the S’Klallam World Through Ethnogeography.”
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Fostering Understanding and Promoting Inclusion for Individuals with Disabilities
Meet the IAS Research and Creative Collaborative, Fostering Understanding and Promoting Inclusion for Individuals with Disabilities. Together with over 30 collaborators, they presented the event Light in the Well, a multi-sensory event that uses music as the storyteller to honor people with disabilities and their families, share their stories, and spread hope to others who are on the same journey.
Meet Minnesota Transform Postdoctoral Associate Ricardo Velasco Trujillo
Ricardo Velasco Trujillo is a documentarian and cultural studies scholar. He earned his PhD in Latin American Studies with Portfolio Certificates in Cultural Studies and Museum Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020. Ricardo joins the IAS community of scholars as the Minnesota Transform Postdoctoral Associate.
Meet IAS Residential Fellow Cassius Adair
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.
Meet IAS Residential Fellow Benjamin Bigelow
Meet Benjamin Bigelow, residential faculty fellow at the IAS for Fall 2021, working on a project about the complexity and diversity of Scandinavian identity.