Place, Performance, and Power: Hip-Hop Dance in Everyday Spaces

Serouj Aprahamian (Dance) is a 2025–2026 HRI Faculty Fellow. His current research project, “‘Showtime!’: Dancing in the New York City UnderGround,” investigates community-based hip-hop dance forms in everyday spaces, including the New York City subway, and the complex relationships between place, performance, and power. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship Program, which supports a cohort of faculty […]

Solidarity and Resistance: South Asian Women’s Activism in Multi-Racial Britain

Priyanka Zylstra (History) is a 2025–2026 HRI Graduate Fellow. Her current research project, “‘It was called Liberation’: South Asian Women’s Activism in Multi-Racial Britain, 1979–1994,” examines how South Asian women in Britain during the 1970s–80s resisted racialized and gendered state violence. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship Program, which supports a cohort of faculty and graduate students […]

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