Arianna Genis

Founder, The Movida Initiative: A Democracy Lab for Latinos

“Forging Movidas: Latino Agency and the Reimagining of Democracy”

Movidas are a Latino expression of agency. They are the capacity, forged through neglect, to create paths forward when no roadmap exists. Movidas take shape in practices like mutual aid and DIY protections against ICE or wage theft. Too often dismissed as survival, they in fact generate trust, belonging, and the ability to act together. I frame movidas as democracy-capacity building, a resource for reimagining how communities organize power in conditions of uncertainty. Through the Movida Initiative, I have led ten pláticas, culturally grounded listening sessions rooted in Chicana feminist practice, with Latino Millennials in the Twin Cities, alongside conversations with organizers, political operatives, and funders. A clear finding has emerged: most of the advocacy and political ecosystem engages Latinos only as single-issue voters or through the lens of immigration and low-wage work. These narrow frames erase broader civic and economic realities and discount Latino agency. They also underscore why movidas must be recognized as vital resources for democracy. This year, I will complete the final pláticas in Greater Minnesota and synthesize findings into a public report.

IAS/Liberal Arts Engagement Hub Visionary Community Fellow, 2024–26

Malay Kotal

Department of Geography, Environment & Society, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Identities on the Move: Working-Class Migration and the Contestation of Bengali Personhood”

Circular migration is emerging as a site of aspirational self-making that is transforming what it means to be Bengali. My research ethnographically examines how the growing circular movement of working-class Bengalis from West Bengal in eastern India to Kerala in southern India is transforming the dominant, elite notion of this ethnolinguistic identity. Residency at IAS will cross-pollinate my geographical understanding of migration with subaltern historical thinking on subject formation, which is necessary to develop a new conceptual framework of ethnolinguistic identity as a marker that encodes but can also disrupt existing social hierarchies.

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow 2025–26

Hannah Schwendeman

Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Aging and Dying in Prison: The Ethics of Care in the Era of Mass Incarceration”

The U.S. prison population is rapidly aging as an unprecedented number of older adults live and die behind bars (Widra 2023). In the era of mass incarceration, how are U.S. state prisons responding to the expanding population of aging and dying prisoners? Through interviews and legal archival analysis, my dissertation investigates how U.S. state prisons are transforming to provide end-of-life care. Connecting philosophy and other humanistic approaches to socio-legal studies, this study offers insights into fundamental moral questions of death and dying at the understudied site of the prison, where punishment and healthcare collide.

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow 2025–26

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

Sarah B. Buchanan

French, Division of the Humanities, University of Minnesota Morris

“Albinism in West African Cinema”

Recently, several African films have criticized the persecution of people with albinism, but scholars have not yet published on the topic. I aim to fill this gap by exploring African spiritual beliefs, how they define albinism, and how they inform the average person’s perspectives. I will then use those beliefs to analyze the films Une Place pour moi by Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo (Rwanda 2016), Change ton coeur, pas ma couleur by Pierre-Antoine Carpentier (Senegal/France 2017), and Disappeared by Romario Tchoupou (Cameroon 2022). The first two are short films that showcase positive representations of individuals with albinism through humanizing them and making their struggles relatable. The third film is a feature about a girl with albinism struggling to get an education despite the prejudice and fear that she must confront. These films challenge deeply-held beliefs and plant the seeds for social change from within their cultures.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2025

Aisha S. Ghani

Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Violence as Difference: Genealogies of Violence in Islam”

My project aims to combine Islamic theological and exegetical analysis with comparative research methods in order to present three Islamic genealogies of violence. My project seeks to answer three questions: First, what can a theologically oriented analysis of the relationship between Islam and violence help us to understand about Islamic difference? Second, how does the question of violence mediate and inform Islamic conceptions of the human? Third, how can a comparative theological approach to questions of violence help us to more broadly understand the relationship between religion and violence?

IAS Faculty Fellow, Fall 2025

Terresa Moses

Design Innovation, College of Design, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Black Liberation X Design”

I plan to produce a Black liberatory centered textbook (Black Liberation X Design) that explores how Black Liberation movements influence the creation of graphic design curricular projects. This textbook will provide opportunities for design educators and students to explore Black liberatory pedagogical approaches regardless of their proximity to the Black experience. This informative guide and textbook uses BlackCrit Theory to frame anti-Blackness as a “wicked” design problem which encourages colonial ways of knowing. This textbook is not only an instructive manual, but one that investigates how design is influenced by colonial ways of knowing and how a Black liberatory approach can influence design education. The fellowship will be used to help the explicit onboarding process and the curriculum framing for each of the nine projects.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Fall 2025

Maggie Hennefeld

Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Archives of Feminist Film Comedy

My project reveals the history of feminist film comedies that have been long unseen, poorly preserved, and even unrealized. I focus on examples from the early silent era to the present day where laughter erupts in the last place you would expect it. I consult institutional and unofficial film archives to unearth instances of subversive joy that exceed the clichés of film genre and defy the imperatives of narrative sense-making. My project will theorize feminist comedy beyond its familiar sensibilities, develop an international filmography using International Federation of Film Archives listings, repertory catalogs, and personal interviews with archivists, and democratize access by curating these films and making them widely accessible beyond their archival enclosures. I envision this project as a book written for both academic readers and a broader audience of feminists and cinephiles.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Fall 2025

Julie Schumacher

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

Shadow Box Narratives

My project strives to create three-dimensional collage narratives. I have long experimented with formal restrictions in my fiction, publishing my novel Dear Committee Members in the form of letters of recommendation, and writing short stories in the form of a board game, a syllabus, and a book proposal. I have also been dabbling in physical forms and structures, creating 3-D illustrated narratives composed of found objects accompanied by photographs and text, clippings from grammar, and penmanship and geography texts from the early twentieth century. This is an outgrowth and expansion of my creative practice which would be enriched in the context of other faculty who cross disciplines. I hope to benefit from resources in the departments of Art and Design and the nearby Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Fall 2025

Honghong Tinn

Electrical and Computer Engineering / History of Science, Technology and Medicine; College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Viewing Wars from Afar: Civilians and International Conflicts in the Era of the Internet and Algorithmic Social Media

My second book project examines how the rise of the Internet and social media shapes civilian understanding of wars from the immediate post-Cold War era (1990s) to the present. It explores how the Internet and social media has changed Taiwanese civilians’ fears, anxieties, confusion, anger, and engagement with wars. I will conduct archival research, oral history interviews, digital ethnography, and survey-published sources, along with other primary sources available online. My project aims to contribute to the understanding of civilians’ technical knowledge of the Internet, algorithm-controlled social media, and military technologies in relation to their interpretations of wars. Through the study of anxiety of different eras through digital technologies, my project will bring together discussions from fields of the history of science and technology, mental health, media studies, and human-computer interaction.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Fall 2025

Aaron Alvarado

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

“Lupe’s Lessons: On Race, Agriculture, and Settler Rurality in the University of California”

In the 1970s, students from the University of California exposed how an agriculture-focused fraternity used a derogatory song during initiation that elicited gender and sexual violence against Latinas. Through tracing responses to the song from activists, scholars, and administrators from the 1970s to the present, my project considers how the roots of the song’s violent depiction of Latinas lie in the University of California’s historic entanglements with settler colonialism, race, and agriculture. Far from marginal, this project’s exploration of the legacies of this song in the University of California system contributes to my larger book project’s analysis of California’s San Joaquin Valley; the broader book is an interdisciplinary history of race and California’s agricultural industry and how this intersection shaped the production and institutionalization of knowledge through California’s public research university system

IAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2026

Karen Ho

Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Financial Afterlives: Elite Fraternal Networks and ‘Racial Financialization’ in the Post-Liquidation Era”

My book project approaches contemporary socioeconomic inequality and intensifying precarity through an examination of elite white fraternal networks of financial actors who continue to transform corporations and homes into components of short-term investment funds or portfolios. By apprehending the seemingly abstract and massive financial markets through fraternal and racialized networks, I attempt to unpack, ground, and detail the intimate workings and effects of “macro” processes. This book will be one of the first ethnographies to bring together an analysis of reactionary populism/racist scapegoating and intensifying financialization of multiple socioeconomic forms, most notably corporations and homes, through an investigation of networks of white men.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2026

Jessica Lopez Lyman

Chicano and Latino Studies, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Cultural Solutions for Climate Justice”

Despite prolific scholarship on climate change, there has yet to be significant social change in the United States. Women of Color and Indigenous feminist scholars have argued that dispossession and the redistribution of resources, especially land, has been undergirded by racial capitalism, leading to environmental inequities in both rural and urban areas for Indigenous people and People of Color. There is a growing call for place-based studies that analyze local solutions and decentralized strategies. My second book project, Culture Cures: Women of Color and Indigenous Feminist Approaches to Climate Justice, will explore how artists across the United States, including Puerto Rico, are working towards creating social change by offering alternative cultural narratives, what I refer to as cultural change, in their local communities to combat climate injustices.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2026

Evan Roberts

History of Medicine (Surgery), Medical School, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“‘Such a rash act’: Wounding, capture, suicide, and the legacy of the Great War”

Recent increases in suicide in the United States have brought renewed attention to the individual and social circumstances leading to suicide. However, there are few studies that focus on integrating individual life stories, public policies, and broader structural change. My book project shows how suicide can be reduced through the studying of veteran suicide in New Zealand in the twentieth century. Sending significant numbers to fight and with unusually rich records for studying soldiers’ lives and suicide, New Zealand is uniquely suited for this work. Suicide among World War II veterans was two-thirds the rate among World War I veterans over their lives, a result of different wartime experience, changes in health and social care, and improving economic security. Throughout my fellowship, I will complete two book chapters centered on the changing narratives of suicide in World War I veterans and the impact of traumatic wartime experiences throughout their later lives.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2026

Darrius Stanley

Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development; College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Historicizing the Influence of the Lucy-Moten-FAMU High School on Black Communities in North Florida”

My project aims to generate understandings of historically Black educational models as a means to better design education spaces that meet the needs of Black youth. I am proposing an intergenerational, historiographical examination of the Lucy Moten-Florida A&M University (FAMU) High School in Tallahassee, Florida. Lucy Moten-FAMU High was one of two schools in the region to offer Black people a high school education in the 1930s. This institution produced some of the greatest minds, athletes and leaders in Black, North Florida. Currently, there is no written record that captures the impact of the school on Black students and communities. As a fourth generation graduate of this institution, I am proposing an interdisciplinary examination of this prestigious institution which centers life history, photo-elicitation, and archival methodologies; this will culminate in a book and living, digital archive.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2026

Christian Uwe

Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Poetry as Political Thought: Reading Precolonial Rwandan Poetry for our Times”

We face a crisis of the fundamental ideas at the core of politics: the human, solidarity, dignity, relation. Whether in philosophy, science, or law, discussion of these ideas has heavily relied on Western systems of knowledge. This has prompted condemnation of epistemological bias which a growing number of leaders in the Global South invoke to voice skepticism about human rights and environmental policies. Yet, if the most pressing challenges we face today are global in character, cultural secession cannot be the answer. Poetry as Political Thought turns to an intellectual tradition from the South (i.e., precolonial Rwandan poetry) to argue that there is a way to reconcile cultural pluralism and a lateral universality. I read precolonial Rwandan poetry as providing a convincing case for this intuition and its political purchase.

IAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2026

IAS/Liberal Arts Engagement Hub Visionary Community Fellow 2024-25

• Arianna Genis: Founder, The Movida Initiative: A Democracy Lab for Latinos: “‘Movidas’ of Change: Reimagining Latino Power and Democracy in the Heartland”

Sawyer Seminar “Just Policing” Fellows 2024-25

• Eduardo Bautista Duran: Postdoctoral Fellow, ”The Roots of Police Violence in California: Towards a Geography of Policing“
• Ayaan Natala: American Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “From George Bonga to George Floyd: Recovering Black Minnesotans' Freedom Dreams Amid the Movement of Black Lives”
• Treasure Tinsley: History, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Urban Redevelopment and the Policing of Cedar-Riverside”

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows 2024-25

• Tyler Akeem Anderson: American Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Jazz as Disability: Tracing the inseparable bond of race and eugenics through the history of medicine and U.S. law”
• Richard Lim: American Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Complicated Coalitions: The Relationship Between Hate Violence, Policing, and Solidarity” 

About the 2024-25 IDFs

Faculty Fellows, Fall 2024

• Hakim Abderrezak: French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Burning the Sea: Clandestine Crossings in the Mediterranean Seametery”
• Michael Dockry: Forest Resources, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, Twin Cities: “The Indigenous Roots of Sustainable Forestry in the USA and Bolivia”
• Christina Ewig: Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Twin Cities: “Making Substantive Democracy:  Women’s, Indigenous, and Afrodescendants’ Representation in Latin America”
• Megan Finch: English, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Black Women Unhinged: Idiocy, Madness, and Perverse Relations in Post-1960s Black Women’s Novels”
• Christine Marran: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Documenting Environmental Displacement and Trans-Pacific Immigration with Creative Nonfiction as Method”
• Yuko Taniguchi: Center for Learning Innovation, Rochester: “Fostering well-being through creativity, collaboration, and civic minded exploration”

Faculty Fellows, Spring 2025

• Cawo Abdi: Sociology, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Intractable Public Education Inequities and The School Choice Debate: Somali Students in Minnesota”
• Sara Blaylock: Art and Design, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Duluth: “Slow Time and Small Talk: A Study in Art as Empathy”
• Lisa Channer: Theatre Arts & Dance, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Eileen in ’60: A Documentary Film”
• Jean O'Brien: History, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Memory and Mobility: Grandma's Mahnomen, White Earth”
• Catharine Saint-Croix: Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “Blades of Grass: Protest, Attention, and the Epistemic”
• Jamele Watkins: German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities: “From Solidarity to Terror: East Germany and Race Through the ‘Free Angela Davis Campaign’”

About the 2024-25 Faculty Fellows

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