Sayak Roy is a member of the 23–24 graduate cohort for “Improvise and Intervene,” the second Interseminars project funded by the Mellon Foundation. Sayak is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Geography & GIS, and his research focuses on the emerging night geographies of Indian cities. He shares about his experiences with Interseminars below. How has your understanding of “improvisational… Read more: Interseminars Spotlight: Sayak Roy

Nathalie Sofia Martinez (Anthropology) is a member of the 23–24 graduate cohort for “Improvise and Intervene,” the second Interseminars project funded by the Mellon Foundation. She shares some insights about her experiences with Interseminars below—in a creative format following the spirit of the project’s theme. How has your understanding of “improvisational practice” evolved over the course of this fellowship so… Read more: Interseminars Spotlight: Nathalie Sofia Martinez

Miguel A. Avalos (Sociology) is a 2023–2024 HRI Graduate Fellow. Avalos’s interdisciplinary dissertation project, “Limitrophic Dwelling: Home, Temporal Sequestration, and the U.S.- Mexico Border Regime,” explores the unintended consequences of transborder commuting or the practice of frequently traveling between a Mexican and U.S. border city. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship Program, which supports a cohort of faculty and graduate students through… Read more: Spatial, Queer, and Temporal Analyses of the Borderland Experience

Anna Torres-Cacoullos (Spanish and Portuguese) is a 2023–2024 HRI Faculty Fellow. Torres-Cacoullos’ book project, “Writing for New Literacies: Moving-Image Storytelling and Film Culture in Silver Age Spain” is a study of these experimental practices of literary-cinematographic writing, where authors converted motion pictures into a methodological tool to explore fusing literature and film. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship Program, which supports a… Read more: Movie Fan Culture and the Expansion of Literary Genres in Early 20th Century Spain

Alexandra Sundarsingh (History) is a 2023–2024 HRI Graduate Fellow. Sundarsingh’s dissertation, “Unraveling Indenture: Racial Indenture and Unfree Labour in the Indian Ocean World, 1815-1965,” argues that to understand the creation and operation of racial indenture in the British Empire as well as the expansion and racialization of unfree labor, it is necessary to examine its operation in the Indian Ocean… Read more: Research on Indentured Labor in British Empire Reexamines Cultural Narratives about Indian Ocean World