Paige Cunningham Caldarella (Dance) was a 2026 HRI Summer Faculty Fellow. She engaged in choreographic research exploring Merce Cunningham’s seminal 1958 piece, Summerspace, as both a historical anchor and a contemporary provocation. Describe your research. What question or questions are you seeking to answer? As a choreographer, educator, and performer, my research is situated at the […]
Alisa Hardy (Communication) was a 2026 HRI Summer Faculty Fellow. During the summer she traveled to Atlanta to view Amy Sherald’s painting Breonna Taylor (2020) and spent focused time writing to develop her forthcoming work, Speculative Remembrance: Beyond Naming Breonna Taylor Across Time, Bodies and Space. Describe your research. What question or questions are you seeking […]
Amanda Daniela Cortez (Anthropology) was a 2026 HRI Summer Faculty Fellow. She spent five weeks in Cusco, Peru, to co-develop her ethnographic book manuscript, Framing Photographic Tourism: Indigeneity, Gender, and Multispecies Relating in the Peruvian Andes. It traces the lives of Quechua women and their llama, alpaca, and sheep kin as they navigate the politics of […]
Yazmín M. Crespo-Claudio (Architecture) was a 2026 HRI Summer Faculty Fellow. With the support of this fellowship, she further developed the seminar ARCH 403, “Spatial Theories from/with the Caribbean,” bringing the work of Caribbean scholars and writers into conversation with community-based and collective spatial practices. Describe the ARCH 403 seminar and what you hope students […]