Meet the IAS Research and Creative Collaborative “Fostering Understanding and Promoting Inclusion for Individuals with Disabilities.” 

Conveners:
Yue Wu, Rehabilitation Medicine, Medical School
Philip Shorey, Independent Composer

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.

We are thrilled to introduce Ricardo and his current project to you, and look forward to sharing a more in-depth interview with him in the spring. 

Cassius Adair joins the IAS as an American Council of Learned Societies Visiting Fellow. He is also an independent audio producer, writer, and researcher, and operates Sylveon Consulting.

Cass 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.

Read on to learn more about his work in progress.

Benjamin Bigelow is an assistant professor of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He joins the IAS as a residential faculty fellow for Fall 2021.

IAS Staff and Fellows share books and articles we think you might like, too.

Before we get into our usual recommendations, though, there are two books on our minds that, as a staff, we collectively recommend. These two books are tied to the next two IAS Thursdays we’ll be hosting with Minnesota Transform: A Just University for Just Futures. Paired together, these books have us thinking about coalition building both here at the University and beyond as we work together towards institutional change, justice, and liberation.

Nina Medvedeva is a graduate student in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She joins the IAS as an interdisciplinary doctoral fellow (IDF) for 2021–2022.

Zozan Pehlivan
Assistant Professor of History
College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

IAS Residential Faculty Fellow, Fall 2021

Shannon Drysdale Walsh is an associate professor of political science in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She joins the IAS as a faculty fellow for Fall 2021.

Sean Drysdale Walsh is an associate professor of philosophy in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and joins the IAS as a scholar in residence for Fall 2021.

Please help us welcome Angela Carter, who recently joined the Mellon-funded initiative Minnesota Transform as Access and Inclusion Pedagogy Specialist.