Wednesday, July 24, 2024
We are delighted to announce that Jen K. AlVarez Hughes has been appointed the next managing director of the Institute for Advanced Study, effective August 19, 2024.
Dr. AlVarez Hughes will succeed Susannah Smith, who will serve as acting director of the IAS while Bianet Castellanos, IAS director, is on sabbatical for the 2024-25 academic year.
Application Deadline:
Monday, September 9, 2024
Are you interested in learning how to write public scholarship? Or how to edit and facilitate the work of a journal? Are you interested in questions of climate change, environmental justice, and our water futures? Are you interested in learning skills that might serve you in both academic and non-academic career paths? Join the Open Rivers Graduate Student Committee!
May 28, 2024
Save the date! Another robust season of conversations awaits in the 2024–25 (In)Justice Series presented by the Institute for Advanced Study. We are pleased to share that next year’s events will partner with the Andrew W. Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar on “Just Policing.” In conversation with community activists and leading scholars, we will interrogate policing across the globe, its histories and futures.
We are delighted to announce the new and renewing Research and Creative Collaboratives at the Institute for Advanced Study!
Eight graduate students from the University of Minnesota have been selected to participate in the Summer 2024 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellowship.
May 14, 2024
An ambitious new planning project aims to radically remake the role of predominantly white institutions in STEM graduate education by centering Tribal Colleges and Universities in tribal land- and self-determination-based science training.
April 23, 2024
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED
The Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota seeks a new Managing Director to direct the day-to-day operations and manage the finances of the Institute.
We are delighted to announce the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows joining the Institute for Advanced Study for 2024–2025.
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows spend a year in residence at the IAS. Together with our Faculty 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 meet regularly to discuss their work and exchange ideas.
We look forward to welcoming each of these scholars to our community!
The Institute for Advanced Study is delighted to announce our Residential Faculty Fellows for 2024–2025.
Faculty fellows spend a semester in residence at the IAS. Together with our Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows (who spend a full academic year in residence) 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.