“Speaking Back to History”: Black Speculative Novels and the Afro-Gothic Tradition

Anna Sophia Flood (English) is a 2024–2025 HRI Graduate Fellow. Her research project, “Slavery’s Eerie Presence: The Graphic Gothic’s Capturing of Dark Histories and Distorted Futures,” introduces the notion of the Graphic Gothic to investigate speculative graphic novels. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship Program, which supports a cohort of faculty and graduate students through a […]

Interseminars Spotlight: Grace Eunhye Bae

Grace Eunhye Bae (Art Education) is a member of the 24–25 graduate cohort for “Collisions Across Color Lines,” the third Interseminars project funded by the Mellon Foundation. Grace shares how her experiences and interests connect with Interseminars.   In what ways do your research interests connect to the theme “Collisions Across Color Lines?” My praxis as […]

Collaborative, Ethical Approaches to Uncovering the History of the Mormon Indian Student Placement Program

Nathan Tanner (Education Policy, Organization & Leadership) is a 2024–2025 HRI Graduate Fellow. His dissertation contributes to a burgeoning historiography concerned with education and schooling in the trans-Mississippi West during the 20th century and accounts for the ways education and schooling have been utilized as tools of settler colonial state-building. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship […]