Month: February 2025

Polyanna Rhee and John Levy Barnard

Environmental Humanities Research Cluster Expands Collaborative Possibilities

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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 […]

Alana Ackerman

Rethinking Migration, Displacement, Refuge, and Violence in the Global South

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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 […]