Lázaro García Angulo (Spanish and Portuguese) is a 2024–2025 HRI Graduate Fellow. His project, “‘Yet Another Woman-Man’: Representations of Gender Nonconformity in Spain, 1880–1939,” seeks to analyze the multiple, and sometimes contradictory, narratives that developed in media around the subject of gender nonconformity, and their evolving relationship to questions of race, class, modernity, and national identity.  Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship… Read more: Shining with Possibility: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Spain

Pollyanna Rhee (Landscape Architecture) and John Levi Barnard (English/Comparative and World Literature) are co-directors of the HRI 2024-25 Research Cluster “Environmental Humanities.” Professor Rhee recently answered questions about the group and the benefits of working collaboratively. HRI Research Cluster funds support the efforts of scholars with shared interests to explore subjects or problems which they might lack the resources to… Read more: Environmental Humanities Research Cluster Expands Collaborative Possibilities

Alana Ackerman (Anthropology) is a 2024–2025 HRI Graduate Fellow. In her project “Rethinking War Across Borders: Violence, Refuge, and the ‘Colombian Armed Conflict’ in Quito, Ecuador” she is researching how the violence of war is reproduced across international borders, in spaces and at times of supposed peace and refuge. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship Program, which supports a cohort of faculty… Read more: Rethinking Migration, Displacement, Refuge, and Violence in the Global South

Samantha Jenae Jones (Design for Responsible Innovation) is a member of the 2024–25 graduate cohort for “Collisions Across Color Lines,” the third Interseminars project funded by the Mellon Foundation. Samantha shared her thoughts on the experience and how her research relates to the Interseminar. In what ways do your research interests connect to the theme “Collisions Across Color Lines?” My studio… Read more: Interseminars Spotlight: Samantha Jenae Jones

August Hoffman (Anthropology) is a 2024–2025 HRI Graduate Fellow. His current project centers on the political ecology between humans, the state, wolves, and wolfdog crosses or “hybrids” as it manifests through the contexts of the exotic pet trade, animal sanctuaries, and wildlife management agencies. August is interested in the potential for sites of sanctuary to realize multispecies justice through their… Read more: Finding Sanctuary: Approaches to Multispecies Community and Justice