Hakim Abderrezak
French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Burning the Sea: Clandestine Crossings in the Mediterranean Seametery ”

Currently, I am working on my second book project, Burning the Sea, which examines the refugee crisis from the Middle East and Africa. While in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study, I will focus on the last chapter of my manuscript, which proposes a theoretical apparatus rooted in local vernaculars and academic studies from the Global South, redressing common misnaming and misconceptions. The chapter will provide the critical distance missing in Eurocentric studies of this phenomenon. During this time, I will also make final revisions to one chapter thanks to interactions with my IAS fellows. Through my exchanges with them, I will approach questions of migration, representation, and discourse from different perspectives such as law, politics, and media. As my project is at the interface of the humanities, social sciences, and art, it will benefit from scholarship and data derived from disciplines such as sociology, mass communication, comparative literature, political science, art, and art history. As an artist as well as a literary and cultural analyst, I will share my expertise, findings, and paintings about the refugee crisis with my peers and the community at large.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Fall 2024

Tyler Akeem Anderson
American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Jazz as Disability: Tracing the inseparable bond of race and eugenics through the history of medicine and U.S. law”

In the 1920s, to discuss jazz became synonymous with discussing black social life in the United States. Eugenicists criminalized jazz as a disabling artform and argued that those who participated in jazz culture should be subject to the violence of eugenics. I argue that to understand the continuities of antiblack racial violence requires excavating and analyzing the racism that structured medico-legal relations in the Progressive era, as well as the dynamics between these professionals and the people they purported to treat. Furthermore, understanding these continuities between the archival record and contemporary black life is essential to understanding and supporting black health.

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow 2024–25

Michael Dockry
Forest Resources, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“The Indigenous Roots of Sustainable Forestry in the USA and Bolivia”

I am proposing an IAS Fellowship to finalize a book manuscript based on my 2012 PhD dissertation, currently titled: The Indigenous Roots of Sustainable Forestry in the USA and Bolivia. The book will show how two Indigenous communities, the Menominee Nation of Wisconsin and the Guarayos communities in Bolivia, understand their relationship with forests, how they define sustainability, and why they engage in forestry. As an IAS fellow, I am excited to work with humanities scholars with experience in completing book projects and who can bring an interdisciplinary focus to forestry, a topic typically reserved for natural sciences. The interdisciplinary IAS community will provide support, ideas, and opportunity to complete my first book project. The book will be important to the fields of American Indian Studies, forestry, and environmental studies. As a faculty member in a science-based department, I will benefit from focused collaborative learning within the IAS community. The IAS community will benefit from my scientific and Indigenous ecological knowledge. I also look forward to deeper participation in events like the Decolonization Roundtable, Thinking Spatially, and the IAS (In)Justice Series.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Fall 2024

Eduardo Bautista Duran
Postdoctoral Fellow

”The Roots of Police Violence in California: Towards a Geography of Policing“

My ongoing research highlights the deep influence United States military campaigns in the Southwest had on policing in California. The next stage considers the role Mexicans in California played in shaping and resisting Anglo policing in a contested site such as Mexican California (Alta California) during and after US conquest (1840s to early 1900s). In doing so, I aim to uncover what makes Anglo/US policing similar and distinct to other forms of policing. I suggest that US empire-building has profoundly shaped policing into the present moment, and my project will attempt to highlight how the development of policing in the US is inextricably linked to global economic and political events that converged and were reshaped in California. During the coming year, I will develop an article for publication and complete a book proposal. I look forward to deepening my global and comparative knowledge of policing as a Sawyer Seminar Fellow.

Sawyer Seminar “Just Policing” Fellow, 2024–25

Christina Ewig
Humphrey School of Public Affairs
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Making Substantive Democracy:  Women’s, Indigenous, and Afrodescendants’ Representation in Latin America”

Thirty years after democratization, Latin America has the most women in national elected political office of any world region and a growing number of Indigenous and Afrodescendant elected leaders. What impact, if anything, has this demographic shift had on laws and policies? “Making Substantive Democracy” answers this question utilizing an original database of over 20 years of parliamentary legislation in Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador and interviews with elected representatives and activists. While far from utopia, and rife with continuing inequalities, the inclusion of more women, Indigenous peoples and Afrodescendants among the ranks of Latin American politicians has led to greater representation of issues important to these groups. But the paths to substantive representation have not been the same for each group, and intersectional coalition building has been the exception rather than the rule. 

IAS Faculty Fellow, Fall 2024

Megan Finch
English, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Black Women Unhinged: Idiocy, Madness, and Perverse Relations in Post-1960s Black Women’s Novels”

“Black Women Unhinged: Idiocy, Madness, and Perverse Relations in Post-1960s Black Women’s Novels” engages recent conversations focusing on black cultural productions and the intersection of madness, blackness, and gender. It rethinks the deployment of unreason in the struggle for late 20th century black women’s liberation using the concept of idiocy coalescing in the work of John Locke. I read Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) and Beloved (1987), Jones’s Corregidora (1975) and Eva’s Man (1976), Bambara’s The Salt Eaters (1980), and Butler’s Dawn (1987) as engaging mainstream feminist and Black Power/Arts contestations of abjection through literary depictions of critical madness, often by producing black women as abject in their stead. As the figure of the “mad black woman” continues to haunt real black women’s lives—from Michelle Obama cast as an angry black woman to the “madness” that drove Sandra Bland to suicide—these literary representations critique and provide the kernel of those freedom dreams realized beyond reason.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Fall 2024

Arianna Genis
Founder, The Movida Initiative: A Democracy Lab for Latinos

“‘Movidas’ of Change: Reimagining Latino Power and Democracy in the Heartland”

Agency is the capacity of individuals to act and shape their future, yet it is often overlooked in political discourse, despite its critical role in a robust democracy. My ongoing research into Latino agency or “movidas,” highlights the strength and creativity of these communities as they engage in collective action to forge pathways amid uncertainty, outside traditional systems of support. Focusing on Latino agency in the Midwest—a region often dismissed as “flyover country” in national politics—presents a unique opportunity to reveal and amplify the “movidas” of Latinos. This exploration seeks to challenge prevailing narratives about Latinos and the Midwest by asserting their agency and highlighting their potential to enhance democratic participation. By harnessing the existing strengths of marginalized communities, we can envision a more equitable democracy capable of reshaping itself to address contemporary challenges. 

As a fellow, I will conduct twelve focus groups in Minnesota to gain deeper insights into Latino agency. The findings will help shape agentic experiences, media content, and programming for the Movida Initiative, as well as contribute to ongoing research and thought leadership on Latino political power in the Midwest.

Visionary Community Fellow, 2024–25

Richard Lim
American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Complicated Coalitions: The Relationship Between Hate Violence, Policing, and Solidarity” 

My dissertation ties together the fields of Critical Legal Studies and American Studies by examining why, from the 1970s to the 1990s, legal and grassroots Asian American and Latinx activism centered on how hate violence led to increased policing. Specifically, I’m interested in how cross-racial activists’ shared commitment to curbing hate crimes without contributing to mass incarceration unintentionally did so. Through archival sources and oral histories, this project historicizes why and how Asian American and Latinx activists’ aspirations to link violence prevention, legal reforms, and increased political representation strengthened policing and simultaneously foreclosed possibilities for future coalition building with overpoliced, African-American communities. 

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow 2024–25

Christine Marran
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Documenting Environmental Displacement and Trans-Pacific Immigration with Creative Nonfiction as Method”

My book project Tsugi chronicles the experience of a family of environmental refugees as they confronted the impacts of ecological catastrophe after nuclear fallout in Fukushima, Japan. This family’s story will be woven into a broader narrative of trans-Pacific immigration, environmental pollution, and cultural identity. Tsugi will speak to broader ecopolitical struggles of communities whose degraded condition has been indispensable to postwar development narratives even while those struggles remained mostly invisible. It will examine the range of health issues and forms of death endured by these environmentally displaced northeastern ruralites. And in telling the story of a sake brewing family of twenty-one generations, Tsugi will describe the ways that immigration provided a form of solution that also presented significant obstacles especially with regard to cultural aesthetics. I have chosen the creative nonfiction form for this book in order to weave together multiple literary forms in writing this story of environmental displacement and immigration based on interviews, diaries, and photos. 

IAS Faculty Fellow, Fall 2024

Ayaan Natala
American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“From George Bonga to George Floyd: Recovering Black Minnesotans' Freedom Dreams Amid the Movement of Black Lives”

Since 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been a key site of Black Lives Matter (BLM) organizing. Facing repeated police killings of Black men, local activists—led by Black women, femmes, and up-and-coming activists—first pushed for police reform and then police abolition. While scholars have begun to document the Movement for Black Lives and the 2020 uprisings, few studies have thoroughly examined Minnesota from the perspective of Black Minnesotan's social lives and emancipatory visions. My dissertation explores how the sociopolitical landscape of Minnesota and the past decade of local BLM organizing influenced Black Minnesotans‘ reflections on Black liberation and police-free futures within the context of their life histories. Using interdisciplinary methods (historical sources, oral histories, & auto-ethnography), I ask: How do Black Minnesotans re-conceptualize safety and freedom if they believe the state cannot provide them public safety (and full citizenship rights)?

Sawyer Seminar “Just Policing” Fellow, 2024–25

Yuko Taniguchi
Center for Learning Innovation
University of Minnesota Rochester

“Fostering well-being through creativity, collaboration, and civic minded exploration”

As a writer and Art-in-Health scholar, I will use this fellowship to process, and articulate, our findings from our creativity studies that explore if deep engagement in creative activities benefits adolescents with depression by introducing more flexible ways of thinking, helping adolescents recognize their creative talents, and developing more positive views of themselves and their futures. My first fellowship goal is to deepen my knowledge and perspectives by examining relevant theoretical frameworks to understand complex qualitative data. This will lead to communicating our insights with the wider scientific community. The second goal is to develop strategies on how to challenge the established systems to make real change in our practice. My hope is to engage with other interdisciplinary scholars to contemplate how new approaches and ideas can be explored, tested, and implemented to make real changes. This fellowship will serve to advance my practice in supporting adolescents and young adults who struggle with mental health challenges. 

IAS Faculty Fellow, Fall 2024

Treasure Tinsley
History, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Urban Redevelopment and the Policing of Cedar-Riverside”

The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis was ravaged by repeated urban development across the twentieth century, each project displacing residents and isolating the neighborhood. However, urban redevelopment did not merely construct buildings and roads—it was also a tool that developers, institutions, and city officials used to expand policing and powers of control. In Cedar-Riverside, twentieth-century urban redevelopment multiplied police presence and jurisdiction, created new opportunities and technologies for surveillance, and isolated residents from the surrounding city. Developers and city planners who sought to reimagine Cedar-Riverside through redevelopment constructed freeways, housing, and public spaces with the needs and desires of white, heterosexual, middle-class nuclear families in mind. In doing so, developers embedded normative, racialized ideas of safety and crime into the bureaucratic and physical infrastructure. This created hostile environments for those who did not fit these normative categories due to their race, gender, sexuality, class, and/or ability, producing ideas of safety for some while marginalizing others.

Sawyer Seminar “Just Policing” Fellow, 2024–25

Cawo Abdi
Sociology, College of Liberal Arts

“Intractable Public Education Inequities and The School Choice Debate: Somali Students in Minnesota”

This book project examines how recent refugee communities such as Somalis are partaking in the educational choice debate. The arrival of this community in the state of Minnesota in the early 1990s coincided with the emergence of heated debates about school choice and charter schools in the United States. My book brings in newcomers into this debate by asking how new migrant and refugee communities relate to public institutions such as the education system and the role that their racial, religious, and class positions play in their dealings with these institutions. The aim is to advance our sociological understanding of structural inequalities that are embedded within the education system as well as the dilemmas around school choice and whether this expansion opens up new democratic spaces or simply more segregated ones.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2025

Sara Blaylock
Art and Design, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
University of Minnesota Duluth

“Slow Time and Small Talk: A Study in Art as Empathy”

We make sense of our lives through creative action as a means of connection. Art does not just serve a function; it is a function of human existence. These are the premises of Slow Time and Small Talk: A Study in Art as Empathy. The book uses case studies of artworks made in the last three decades to argue five core themes: 1) Art is care; 2) Art is repair; 3) Art is testimony; 4) Art is survival; and 5) Art is community. Grappling with the proposition that “Art is not enough” the book also considers obstacles to empathy posed by conflict and commodification. Slow Time and Small Talk prescribes attention to process and scale as antidotes to polarization and indifference. While an IAS fellow, I will conduct field research into Twin Cities initiatives that have sought to connect art institutions with marginalized communities. I will wed local examples to ones further afield to argue for the necessity of a definition of art that embraces collaboration and uncertain outcomes. In this way, Slow Time and Small Talk can demonstrate that empathy must be built over time and into the future for which we are all responsible.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2025

Lisa Channer
Theatre Arts & Dance, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Eileen in ’60: A Documentary Film”

'“If you want Universal, first look at what is going on in your kitchen.” —Theatre and Film Director Robert Lepage

I am seeking an IAS fellowship in order to conduct research and write the first draft of the script for my next film, Eileen in ‘60 (working title). The documentary film is to be an exploration of life for American women in the year 1960 told through one woman’s specific story. It is the story of a secret pregnancy and birth and the culture that created both. It is also a story about my own mother Eileen Channer and the contexts within which she and her generation of women made life decisions. A fellowship at the IAS next year will allow me to delve more deeply into mid-century views of reproductive rights, women’s autonomy, and social norms in the United States and give me space to work on a deeply personal and urgent project. I am interested in allowing 1960 to speak to us today as we once again debate women’s bodily autonomy in the halls of Congress, in the Supreme Court, and in public discourse.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2025

Jean O'Brien
History, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Memory and Mobility: Grandma's Mahnomen, White Earth”

My book-length manuscript-in-progress traces the social and cultural history of the White Earth Reservation in northwestern Minnesota drawing on my Ojibwe grandmother’s writings from the 1970s and 1980s about her family coming to and living on the reservation, as well as sources in the Minnesota Historical Society and Chicago and Kansas City branches of the National Archives. I center what I call her memoirs, which offer a unique vantage point on Ojibwe history at the turn to the twentieth century, when US policy makers sought to eradicate Native cultures and sovereignty there and elsewhere, first by fixing them on reservations, then by breaking those reservations into individually owned parcels of lands to force assimilation under the policy of Allotment and other assimilative initiatives such as day schools and boarding schools. My grandmother’s memoirs offer rare insight into Ojibwe family history, especially from the 1890s through the 1930s, but also reaching back to our Ojibwe family’s roots to Julia Hole-in-the-Day, sister of the prominent Gull Lake Ojibwe leader Hole-in-the-Day the first (Buganageeshig).

IAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2025

Catharine Saint-Croix
Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Blades of Grass: Protest, Attention, and the Epistemic”

The #MeToo movement’s power came from drawing attention to the ubiquity of sexual harassment. Say Their Names Cemetery, the symbolic graveyard near George Floyd Square, draws attention to disproportionate use of police violence against Black people in the United States. These protests say that we have a moral obligation of attention. Attention matters. It matters because what we attend to determines what learn, what we know, and what we remember. Yet, within epistemology, there is little research on the topic. This is because epistemology is dominated by belief and knowledge. These cognitive attitudes are the main lines of analysis for new questions. Their centrality is often the measure of whether something counts as “epistemology.” So, epistemologists work almost exclusively in terms of agents' beliefs reflecting their evidence, without room for attentional criticism. “Blades of Grass” challenges that status quo. It subjects this standard to scrutiny by looking at actual cases of epistemic criticism—conspiracy theorizing, unethical beliefs, and protest—and showing that these criticisms are grounded in a more active, agential understanding of epistemology. An understanding rooted in attention.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2025

Jamele Watkins
German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“From Solidarity to Terror: East Germany and Race Through the ‘Free Angela Davis Campaign’”

At the intersection of African diasporic studies, German Studies, and Cold War history, my research examines the ephemera sent to Angela Davis from East Germans during her trial in San Jose (1970–1972). I examine the East German iconization of Davis through multiple state-run campaigns by utilizing a recently uncovered archive sent primarily from the German Democratic Republic to California. Bringing together the contents of this archive (e.g. letters, postcards, posters, and gifts), I argue that these materials represent an affective (or emotional) allyship to Davis while she was in jail. These materials represent the imagined connection between Davis and East Germany. Through close readings, analyzing letter contents and different objects within the archive, and the impact of the archive on Angela Davis, I show the potential and limitations of solidarity during the Cold War while offering a generative framework for understanding East German collective memory. My work charts the passionate solidarity of East Germans and the use of Davis as foundational to anti-racist communism in East Germany while also provoking questions about racial violence of reunification.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2025

FACULTY FELLOWS, FALL 2023

• Anuja Bose: Political Science, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Reconstructing an Internationalism of the Present: The Political Practices and Institutions of Global Black Politics”
• Joseph Bump: Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology; College of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Sciences; Twin Cities: "Wolves: creating art to picture the science”
• Katharine Gerbner: History, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Constructing Religion, Defining Crime”
• Daniel Greenberg: Art History, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Mapping without Maps”
• Lisa Hsieh: Architecture, College of Design, Twin Cities: “Spectral ArchiteXture”
• Dwight K. Lewis Jr.: Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Justice, Inclusion, and Equity in Philosophy”
• Kari Smalkoski: Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies; College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “American Dream Disrupted: Reframing narratives on Asian American youth, gender, and inequality in schools”
   

FACULTY FELLOWS, SPRING 2024

• Arash Davari: Political Science, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Insurgent Witness: Revolutionary Iran and the Question of Self-Determination”
• David Gore: Communication, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Duluth: “Communication & Religion: The Gift of Presence”
• Atilla Hallsby: Communication Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “This Page Left Intentionally Blank: Rhetorical Forms of the Secret”
• Zornitsa Keremidchieva: Communication Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Beyond Representation: Feminist Public Policy Rhetoric Reconsidered”
• Matthew Rahaim: Music, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Improvising Relationality”
• Katie Van Wert: English Linguistics & Writing Studies: College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Duluth: “Writing at the End of Life: Exploring Legacy Narrative in Palliative Care”
   

INTERDISCIPLINARY DOCTORAL FELLOWS

• Isaac Esposto: Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “The Architecture and Algorithms of Borderland Confinement”
• Treasure Tinsley: History, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Problem Property: Reproductive and Carceral Logics of Urban Renewal in the Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood, 1950–1990”

FACULTY FELLOWS, FALL 2022

• Erin Durban: Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Plastic Futures: Transnational Engagements with Waste, Recycling, and Toxicity in the Americas” 
• Siobhan McMahon: School of Nursing, Twin Cities: “Community-based intervention effects on older adults' physical activity and falls”
• Dan Myers: Political Science, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “When No Politics Are Local: How the nationalization of news consumption changed politics for Americans”
• Benjamin Narvaez: History, Division of Social Science, Morris: “Chinese Migration and the Making of Modern Costa Rica, 1855-1943”
• Nida Sajid: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Layers of Contagion: Understanding Social and Ecological Precarity in a Waste Treatment Plant”
• Margaret Werry: Theatre Arts and Dance, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “The Performing Dead: Public Culture at the Borders of the Human”
   

FACULTY FELLOWS, SPRING 2023

• Shir Alon: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Future Imperfect: Fictions and Logics of Security in the Middle East”
• Elaine Auyoung: English, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Unselfing: What We Can Ask of the Arts”
• David Chang: History and American Indian Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Confluences of History: Enacting Community History with the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians”
• Sheer Ganor: History, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “In Scattered Formation: German-Speaking Jewry in Displacement”
• Douglas Hartmann: Sociology, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Take-A-Knee Nation: Athlete Activism, Mainstream America, and the New Cultural Politics of Sport”
   

INTERDISCIPLINARY DOCTORAL FELLOWS

• Liz Calhoun: Geography, Environment, and Society, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Mapping the Future: Constructing Risk and Bias in the Algorithmic Environments of Crime Forecasting Software”
• Shankar CSR: History, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “After the Conversion: Anti-Caste Buddhism in 20^th-Century Maharashtra (1956-2002)”
• Dewitt King: American Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Wrestling with Precarity: The Hustle, The Flow, and The Black Pro Wrestler”
• Valeria Lopez Torres: Graphic Design, College of Design, Twin Cities: “Emotional authenticity in human-artificial companion relationships”
• Nina Peterson: Art History, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Ridiculous Contraptions: American Art, Humor, and Machine Technology to Effect Social Change, 1954-1975”
   

VISITING FELLOWS & SCHOLARS IN RESIDENCE

• Ralph L. Crowder III: IAS–Liberal Arts Engagement Hub Community Fellow. Frances E. Thompson Digital Library for Family Research. (Spring 2023)
• Ricardo Velasco: Minnesota Transform Postdoctoral Associate. “Cultural Ecologies of Memory and Symbolic Reparation in Transitional Colombia: A Book and Digital Public Humanities Project”
• Jigna Desai: Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: Scholar in Residence
• Kevin Murphy: History, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: Scholar in Residence

FACULTY FELLOWS, SPRING 2022

• Tracey Deutsch: History, CLA, Twin Cities: “The Julia Child Project”
• Gabriela Spears-Rico: Chicano & Latino Studies, CLA, Twin Cities: “Mestizo Melancholia and the Legacy of Conquest in Michoacan”
• Fayola Jacobs: Urban Planning, HHH, Twin Cities: “Colonizing Climates: The Intersections of Anti-Blackness, Climate Change, and Urban Planning”
• Michelle Phelps: Sociology, CLA, Twin Cities: “Policing the Progressive City: Race, Violence, and the Future of Public Safety in Minneapolis”
• Shaden Tageldin: Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, CLA, Twin Cities: “The Place of Africa, in Theory: Of Continents and Their Discontents”

FACULTY FELLOWS, FALL 2021

• Benjamin Bigelow: German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, CLA, Twin Cities: “Scandinavian Racial Ecologies”
• Ann DuHamel: Music, Humanities Division, Morris: “Prayers for a Feverish Planet: A Musical Exploration of Climate Change”
• Zozan Pehlivan: History, CLA, Twin Cities: “The Political Ecology of Forced Sedentarization: Herd Dependent Peoples, Climate Change, and the Encroaching State (1850-1950)”
• Scott St. George: Geography, Environment and Society, CLA, Twin Cities: “Staring Down the Bottom of a Dry Well: Global Society and the Coming Age of Megadrought”
• Shannon Drysdale Walsh: History, Political Science & International Studies, CLA, Duluth: “Women Confronting Terror: Violence against Women and the State in Central America”

INTERDISCIPLINARY DOCTORAL FELLOWS 2021–2022

• Harsha Anantharaman: Geography, Environment, & Society, CLA, Twin Cities: “The Paradox of Inclusion: The Politics of Caste, Recognition, & Infrastructure Reform in Urban India”
• Nina Medvedeva: Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, CLA, Twin Cities: “Home in the Sharing Economy”

VISITING FELLOWS

• Cassius Adair: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Visiting Fellow, 2021–2022: “The Transgender Internet”
• Alexandra Peck: Visiting Scholar of Indigenous Studies; Environmental Stewardship, Place, and Community Initiative, 2021–2022: “Mapping Multivocality: Documenting Changes in the S’Klallam World through ’Ethnogeography‘”
• Ricardo Velasco: Minnesota Transform Postdoctoral Associate, 2021–ongoing: “Cultural Ecologies of Memory and Symbolic Reparation in Transitional Colombia: A Book and Digital Public Humanities Project”
• Sean Walsh: Scholar in Residence, Fall 2021: “Moral Psychology and the Ethics of Perpetrator Risk”

FACULTY FELLOWS, SPRING 2021

• Hassan Abdel Salam, Sociology, CLA, Twin Cities: The Human Rights Fatwas: How Human Rights Influence Orthodox Jurists in their Adjudication of Islamic Law
• Tammy Berberi, French, Humanities Division, Morris: Fixing Meaning? Francophone Disability Studies and the Socio-Imaginative Power of Language
• Jason Kerwin, Applied Economics, CFANS, Twin Cities: Overcoming Procrastination and Other Behavioral Barriers in the HIV Epidemic
• Helen Kinsella, Political Science, CLA-Social Sciences, Twin Cities: War Fatigue: The Biopolitics of Sleep in War
• Jennifer Row, French and Italian, CLA, Twin Cities: The Body Perfect: the Aesthetics of Ableism in the Francophone Early Modern World
• Emily Winderman, Communication Studies, CLA, Twin Cities: Back-Alley Abortion: A History of Sanitary Rhetoric and Reproductive Injustice
   

FACULTY FELLOWS, FALL 2020

• Gail Dubrow, School of Architecture, College of Design, Twin Cities: Memoir as a Mode of Inquiry and Expression in Environmental Design and Planning for Social Justice
• Greta Friedemann-Sanchez, Global Policy, HHH, Twin Cities: From the Battlefield to the Home Front: Harmonizing Security Policies on Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Conflict Colombia
• Kristine Miller, Landscape Architecture, College of Design, Twin Cities: Memoir as a Mode of Inquiry and Expression in Environmental Design and Planning for Social Justice
• Richa Nagar, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, CLA, Twin Cities: Songs of Departure
• Rachel Hardeman, Health Policy & Management, SPA, Twin Cities: Double Jeopardy: An exploration of the relationship between anti-abortion policy and maternal mortality for Black Birthing People in the US
• Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Sociology, CLA, Twin Cities: Race and deaths from infectious diseases in the United States, 1900-1950
   

INTERDISCIPLINARY DOCTORAL FELLOWS

• Julia Brokaw, Entomology, CFANS, Twin Cities: Uprooting Assumptions in Pollinator Conservation Policy
• Stephen Ellis, English, CLA, Twin Cities: Making the Case: Legal Curriculum, Literary Culture, and the Cold War
• SeungGyeong (Jade) Ji, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, CLA, Twin Cities: Rights and Redemption: Politics of Abortion in South Korea 1974-2019
• Emily Mitamura, Political Science, CLA, Twin Cities: Afterliving Mass Violence: Plot, Justice, and the Cambodian Genocide
• Florencia Pech-Cárdenas, Natural Resource Science and Management, CFANS, Twin Cities: Influences of Handicraft Production on Gender, Livelihoods, and Natural Resources Management in Maya Communities
   

FACULTY FELLOWS, SPRING 2020

• Fernando Burga, Urban and Regional Planning, HHH, Twin Cities: Mapping Transportation Accessibility for Culturally Relevant and Healthy Foods in Rural MN: Towards a Mixed-Methods Research Toolkit
• Adam Coon, Humanities, UM-Morris: The Serpent’s Feathers: Nahua Philosophies in Migration
• Kathryn Nuernberger, English, CLA, Twin Cities: The Doctrine of Signatures: Essays
• Carrie Oelberger, Leadership and Management, HHH, Twin Cities: Radical Re-Envisioning for a Just and Equitable Society: Interrogating and Theorizing Private Interests in Prosocial Work
• Jimmy Patiño, Chicano and Latino Studies, CLA, Twin Cities: “Our Oppressions are One, Our Dreams are One”: Black-Brown Solidarities in Movements for Self-Determination
• Ioana Vartolomei Pribiag, French and Italian, CLA, Twin Cities: Shards: Spectacular Fragmentation in Francophone Postcolonial Literature
• Elana Shever, Scholar in Residence, Anthropology, Colgate University: Finding Our Beasts: Encountering Dinosaurs and Science in the American West
• Kari Smalkoski, Community Engagement Fellow, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, CLA, Twin Cities: Minnesota Youth Story Squad

FACULTY FELLOWS, FALL 2020

• June Carbone, Law School, Twin Cities: From Tiers to Ladders: A Feminist Theory of Power
• Cosette Creamer, Political Science, CLA, Twin Cities: In Courts We Trust: The Unseen Role of Legal Bureaucrats in Human Rights Courts
• V. V. Ganeshananthan, English, CLA, Twin Cities: Movement: A Novel
• Kate Lockwood Harris, Communications Studies, CLA, Twin Cities: Communicating Violence in the Academy: A Case Study of the 2015 Anti-Racist Protests and Backlash at the University of Missouri
• Enid Logan, Sociology, CLA, Twin Cities: American Indian Racialization and the Sociological Study of Race
• Jennifer Marshall, Art History, CLA, Twin Cities: William Edmondson: Life and Work
• Elana Shever, Scholar in Residence, Anthropology, Colgate University: Finding Our Beasts: People, Dinosaurs, and Science in the American West

INTERDISCIPLINARY DOCTORAL FELLOWS

• Ateeb Ahmed, Geography, Environment, and Society, CLA, Twin Cities: Between Speculation and Dispossession: Pakistan Military's Urban Coup d'Etat
• Deniz Coral, Anthropology, CLA, Twin Cities: The Humorous Reaction to Trepidation: Jokes on the Trading Floor
• Hana Maruyama, American Studies, CLA, Twin Cities: Alien Nation: The Role of Japanese Americans During WWII Incarceration in Native Dispossession
• Hannah Ramer, Natural Resources Science and Management, CFANS, Twin Cites: (Re)Imagining the City: Urban Agriculture, Policy, & Social Justice in Minneapolis

FACULTY FELLOWS, SPRING 2019

• Hakim Abderrezak, French and Italian, CLA, Twin Cities: Seametery: Migrants, Refugees, and the Mediterranean
• Malinda Lindquist, History, CLA, Twin Cities: The Politics of Youth: Education, Achievement Gaps, and the Construction of Black Childhood, 1940-1990
• Francis Shen, Law School, Twin Cities: Brain-Based Memory Detection and the Law
• Eun-Kyung Suh, Art and Design, School of Fine Arts, Duluth: Refugees’ Resettlement: Geographic Patterns in Sculpture
• Teresa Swartz, Sociology, CLA, Twin Cities: Not Just Child’s Play: Race and the Reproduction of Inequality In and Through Youth Activities

FACULTY FELLOWS, FALL 2018

• Natalie Belsky, History, CLA, Duluth: Encounters in the East: Evacuees in the Soviet Hinterland during the Second World War
• Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Sociology, CLA, Twin Cities: Abortion Politics in Uruguay, Peru, and Nicaragua: Explaining Disparate Outcomes
• Siobhan Craig, English, CLA, Twin Cities: The Fourth Shore: Empire and Visuality in the Fascist-Era Italian Colonies
• Thomas Genova, Spanish, Humanities Division, Morris: Borders of Brazil: Euclides da Cunha and ‘Latin America’
• Mai Na Lee, History, CLA, Twin Cities: The Hmong Kingdom at Dragon Capital (Long Cheng): Vang Pao’s Alliance with the CIA, 1960-75
• Marek Oziewicz, Curriculum and Instruction, CEHD, Twin Cities: Bloodlands Fiction: Soviet Trauma in Young People’s Literature

INTERDISCIPLINARY DOCTORAL FELLOWS, 2018-2019

• Ketaki Jaywant, History, CLA, Twin Cities: Caste as a Site of Social Change: Mapping 19-th Century Anti-Caste Politics in Western India
• Maria Mendez Gutierrez, Political Science, CLA, Twin Cities: The Visual Economy of Violence: Transnational Gangs in the U.S.-Central American Security Imaginary
• Joseph Whitson, American Studies, CLA, Twin Cities: #Explore: Outdoor Retailers, Social Media, and Assaults on Indigenous Sovereignty in the Contemporary United States

GRAND CHALLENGE RESEARCH FELLOWS, 2018-2019

Just and Equitable Communities 

• Bianet Castellanos, American Studies, CLA, TC
• Carl Flink, Theatre Arts & Dance, CLA, TC
• Sumanth Gopinath, Music, CLA, TC
• Susan Mason, Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, TC
• Richa Nagar, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, CLA, TC
• Ross VeLure Roholt, Social Work, CEHD, TC

Clean Water and Sustainable Ecosystems

• Oscar Garza, Pharmacy Care & Health Systems, AHC, TC
• Mary Hermes, Curriculum & Instruction, CEHD, TC
• Kimberly Hill-Malvick, Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, CSE, TC
• Daniela Sandler, Architecture, CDES, TC
• Diane Willow, Art, CLA, TC

FACULTY FELLOWS, SPRING 2016

• Marc Bellemare, Applied Economics, CFANS, Twin Cities: The Political Economy of Food Price Stabilization
• Jennifer Gomez Menjivar, Foreign Languages and Literatures, CLA, Duluth: Tropical Tongues: Language Ideologies, Endangerment, and Minority Languages in Belize 
• Annie Hill, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, CLA, Twin Cities: Sex Trafficking, Migration, and Law 
• Michael Lower, History, CLA, Twin Cities: Violence and Religious Difference in the Premodern Mediterranean
• William Salmon, Linguistics, CLA, Duluth: Tropical Tongues: Language Ideologies, Endangerment, and Minority Languages in Belize 
• Roozbeh Shirazi, Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD, Twin Cities: There is Always Something to Prove: Transnational Youth, Sociopolitical Belonging, and Education in the Twin Cities'

FACULTY FELLOWS, FALL 2015

• Michael Gallope, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, CLA, Twin Cities: New Ontologies of Sonic Writing (Fall 2015)
• Cindy Garcia, Theater Arts & Dance, CLA, Twin Cities: How To Make It to the Salsa Dance Floor (Fall 2015)
• Sarah Parkinson, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Twin Cities: Organizational Emergence in Crisis: Networks, Neuroscience, and Military Organizations in the Middle East (Fall 2015)
• Helena Pohlandt-McCormick, History, CLA, Twin Cities: The Graves of Dimbaza: Reconsidering the Resilience of Race in the Post-Apartheid Present (Fall 2016)
• Amit Yahav, English, CLA, Twin Cities: Moments: Qualitative Time in Eighteenth-Century Culture (Fall 2015)
• Kyungsoo Yoo, Soil, Water, & Climate, CFANS, Twin Cities: Agrarian Expansion, Immigration and the Emergence of Earthworm-Engineered Forests: 9,000 years of Human-Natural History in Glaciated Regions of N. Europe and N. America (Fall 2015)

COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS GRADUATE FELLOWS, SPRING 2016

• Kasey Keeler, American Studies, Twin Cities: Indigenous Suburbs: Settler-Colonialism, Housing Policy, and the Erasure of American Indians from Suburbia 
• Alicia Lazzarini, Geography, Environmetn, and Society: ‘Açúcar nem Sempre Doce’: Reinvestments, Land, and Gendered Labor in a ‘New’ Mozambique 

SAWYER SEMINAR POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS, 2015-2016

• Laurie Moberg, Anthropology, CLA, Twin Cities: Fluid Landscapes: Materializing the Future after Natural Disasteres in Thailand (Sawyer Seminar Graduate Fellow, Fall 2015-Spring 2017)

SCHOLARS AND ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, SPRING 2016

• Rachel Jendrzejewski, Playwright and Interdisciplinary Artist: Making Reality: Complication Popular Definitions of Story in Contemporary Performance 
• Beth Mercer-Taylor, Sustainability Education, Institute on the Environment: Change the System, Not the Climate 
• Guillermo Narváez, Humphrey School of Public Affairs: Boundaries at Work with American Indian Communities 

SCHOLARS AND ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, FALL 2015

• Ursula Lang, Geography, University of Glasgow: Cultivating Everyday Life: Yards, Nature, and Time 
• Presley Martin, Sculpture and Installation Artist: Dye Buckthorn Dye 
• Jennifer Row, French, Boston University: Queer Velocities: Speeds of Sex on the Early Modern Stage 

VISITING SCHOLAR, FALL 2015

• Bill Moseley, Geography, Macalester College: Can Markets & Technology Solve the Scourge of Global Hunger? The New Green Revolution for Africa, Marginal Communities, and Rural Malnutrition 

FACULTY FELLOWS, SPRING 2015

• Matteo Convertino, Environmental Health Sciences, Public Health, Twin Cities: HumNat-Health: From People, To People. Theory, Computers, Art (Spring 2015)
• Katherine Hayes, Anthropology, CLA, Twin Cities: Bohemian Flats Public Memory Project: Archaeology, Public History, and Heritage (Spring 2015)
• Kathryn Milun, Sociology and Anthropology, CLA, Duluth: Creating Sustainable Infrastructure with Commons-Based Design: The Solar Commons Project and Beyond (Spring 2015)
• Leslie Morris, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, CLA, Twin Cities: She Did Not Speak (Spring 2015)
• Erik Redix, American Indian Studies, CLA, Duluth: Deluge and Bakweyawaa: American Colonialism in the Twentieth Century and the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe (Spring 2015)
• David Valentine, Anthropology, CLA, Twin Cities: Off the Rock: Human Futures in Outer Space (Spring 2015)

FACULTY FELLOWS, FALL 2014

• Elaine Auyoung, English, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: The Suggestiveness of Realist Novels (Fall 2014)
• Mark Collier, Philosophy, Morris: Experimental Philosophy (Fall 2014)
• Katharine Gerbner, History, CLA, Twin Cities: Christian Slavery: Protestant Missions and Slave Conversions in the Atlantic World, 1660-1760 (Fall 2014)
• Njeri Githire, African American and African Studies, CLA, Twin Cities: (In)edible Ideologies: Food, Identity, and the (Post)Colonial Subject in African Literary and Cultural Expression (Fall 2014)
• Dominic Taylor, Theater Arts and Dance, CLA, Twin Cities: Ice Man - Black in White: Black Bodies on Stage in Classic White Roles (Fall 2014)

SAWYER SEMINAR POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS, 2014-2015

• Nenette Luarca-Shoaf, Art Historian and Curator: The Mississippi River in Antebellum Visual Culture
• Jane Mazack, Water Research Science Graduate Program, Twin Cities: Entomology and Stream Ecology in Southeast Minnesota
• Laurie Moberg, Anthropology, CLA, Twin Cities: Fluid Landscapes: Materializing the Future After Natural Disasters in Thailand

COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS GRADUATE FELLOWS, 2014-2015

• Jamal Adam, Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, Twin Cities: Identity Development of Somali College Students
• Jameson R. Sweet, History, CLA, Twin Cities: The Mixed-Blood Moment: Race, Land, and Law Among Dakota Mixed-Bloods in the Nineteeth Century
• Maiyia Yang, Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, Twin Cities: Educational Identities of Karen Refugee Women in the Twin Cities Metro Area

VISITING FELLOWS, 2014-2015

• Emily Johnson, Choreograper and Director, Catalyst Dances: SHORE
• Anaïs Nony, French and Italian, Moving Image Studies, CLA, Twin Cities: Technical Memory: Thierry Kuntzel's Video Art and the Early Web Experience in France
• Karin Vélez, History, Macalester College: Catholic Landings in Frontier Zones: Jesuits, Converts, and the Flying House of Loreto, 1290-1750

VISITING FELLOW, SPRING 2015

• Ryland Angel, Counter-tenor and Composer: The Call