Kirsten Barker (Music) is a 2025–2026 HRI Graduate Fellow. Her current research project, “Max of the Antarctic: Stories of ‘Wilderness’ in Music and Word,” explores how English composer Peter Maxwell Davies experienced the southernmost continent as “wilderness” and encapsulated both real and imagined Antarcticas in music and personal accounts of his trip. Learn more about HRI’s […]
Ilaria Strocchia (Spanish and Portuguese) is a 2025–2026 HRI Graduate Student Fellow. Her current research project, “Flowing Histories: Examining the Role of Water in Shaping Urban Spaces and Identities Across Cultures,” investigates how bodies of water—rivers, lakes, and the sea—have historically shaped urban places in Valencia, Mexico City, and Naples while simultaneously forging their stories. […]