Stanislav Khudzik (History) is a 2025–2026 HRI Graduate Fellow. His research project, “1905 After 1917: The Bolshevik Archive, Oral Storytelling, and Historical Media in Early Soviet Leningrad, 1921-1926,” explores the efforts of the Leningrad Commission for the History of the October Revolution and the Russian Communist Party (Istpart) in the early 1920s to revisit the […]
Ryan Griffis (Art and Design) is a 2025–2026 HRI Faculty Fellow. His research project, “When the Landscape Recognizable Today Was Shaped,” is a multimedia artwork focused on wetlands in the Central Illinois River Valley, combining documentary interviews, landscape imagery, and speculative poetry and visuals. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship Program, which supports a cohort of faculty […]
Daniel Nabil Maroun (French and Italian) is a 2025–2026 HRI Faculty Fellow. His current research project, “The Politics of Kinship: Writing Queerness, Filiation, and Race in Contemporary France,” reexamines the story and legitimacy of family as a social construct in France, exploring how different queer populations reconstruct what constitutes a family through new forms of […]
Caitlin Clarke (Health and Kinesiology), Jesse Couture (Health and Kinesiology), and Jacob Fredericks (Recreation, Sport, and Tourism) are co-directors of the HRI 2024-25 Research Cluster “Interdisciplinary Sport Studies.” They discuss how collaboration and interdisciplinary work to help bridge the gap between faculty engaging with sport from a variety of perspectives. HRI Research Cluster funds support the efforts of […]
Chelsea Birchmier(Psychology) is a 2024–2025 HRI Graduate Fellow. Her project, “‘Searching for the Nexus’ Between Two Movements: Fight for $15 and Possibilities for Black Worker Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri,” investigates how Black liberation and labor movements have both coalesced and diverged, using community psychology to understand individuals and communities functioning within local political systems. […]
Sharayah L. Cochran (Art History) is a 2024–2025 HRI Graduate Fellow. Her research project examines the injurious potential of documentary photographs. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship Program, which supports a cohort of faculty and graduate students through a year of dedicated research and writing in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment. What is unique about your research […]
Lázaro García Angulo (Spanish and Portuguese) is a 2024–2025 HRI Graduate Fellow. His project, “‘Yet Another Woman-Man’: Representations of Gender Nonconformity in Spain, 1880–1939,” seeks to analyze the multiple, and sometimes contradictory, narratives that developed in media around the subject of gender nonconformity, and their evolving relationship to questions of race, class, modernity, and national identity. […]
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 (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 […]
Samantha Jenae Jones (Design for Responsible Innovation) is a member of the 2024–25 graduate cohort for “Collisions Across Color Lines,” the third Interseminars project funded by the Mellon Foundation. Samantha shared her thoughts on the experience and how her research relates to the Interseminar. In what ways do your research interests connect to the theme “Collisions […]