For posts by HRI Campus Fellows
August Hoffman (Anthropology) is a 2024–2025 HRI Graduate Fellow. His current project centers on the political ecology between humans, the state, wolves, and wolfdog crosses or “hybrids” as it manifests through the contexts of the exotic pet trade, animal sanctuaries, and wildlife management agencies. August is interested in the potential for sites of sanctuary to […]
Anna Sophia Flood (English) is a 2024–2025 HRI Graduate Fellow. Her research project, “Slavery’s Eerie Presence: The Graphic Gothic’s Capturing of Dark Histories and Distorted Futures,” introduces the notion of the Graphic Gothic to investigate speculative graphic novels. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship Program, which supports a cohort of faculty and graduate students through a […]
Nathan Tanner (Education Policy, Organization & Leadership) is a 2024–2025 HRI Graduate Fellow. His dissertation contributes to a burgeoning historiography concerned with education and schooling in the trans-Mississippi West during the 20th century and accounts for the ways education and schooling have been utilized as tools of settler colonial state-building. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship […]
Eddie O’Byrn (African American Studies) is a 2024–2025 HRI Faculty Fellow. His current book project Existence Precedes Enslavement reconstructs the lives of Courtney and her son Joseph Godfrey who endured and survived American chattel slavery in the Northwest Territory during the 1800s. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship Program, which supports a cohort of faculty and graduate […]
Miguel A. Avalos (Sociology) is a 2023–2024 HRI Graduate Fellow. Avalos’s interdisciplinary dissertation project, “Limitrophic Dwelling: Home, Temporal Sequestration, and the U.S.- Mexico Border Regime,” explores the unintended consequences of transborder commuting or the practice of frequently traveling between a Mexican and U.S. border city. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship Program, which supports a cohort of […]
Anna Torres-Cacoullos (Spanish and Portuguese) is a 2023–2024 HRI Faculty Fellow. Torres-Cacoullos’ book project, “Writing for New Literacies: Moving-Image Storytelling and Film Culture in Silver Age Spain” is a study of these experimental practices of literary-cinematographic writing, where authors converted motion pictures into a methodological tool to explore fusing literature and film. Learn more about HRI’s […]
Alexandra Sundarsingh (History) is a 2023–2024 HRI Graduate Fellow. Sundarsingh’s dissertation, “Unraveling Indenture: Racial Indenture and Unfree Labour in the Indian Ocean World, 1815-1965,” argues that to understand the creation and operation of racial indenture in the British Empire as well as the expansion and racialization of unfree labor, it is necessary to examine its […]
Justine S. Murison (English) is a 2023–2024 HRI Faculty Fellow. Murison’s manuscript, “American Obscenity: Realism in the Age of Comstock” examines the legal and cultural invention of “obscenity” in the United States. 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 […]
Jon Hale (Education Policy, Organization and Leadership/Curriculum & Instruction) is a 2023–2024 HRI Faculty Fellow. Hale’s research, “I Pledge Allegiance: A History of Racist Ideas, Textbooks, and Teaching in the United States School System” provides critical historical analysis of recent efforts to control the curriculum in schools. This project builds upon the historiography around the […]
Adam LoBue (History) is a 2023–2024 HRI Graduate Fellow. LoBue’s project, “‘Preventive, Pre-emptive and Educative’: Political Literacy, Anti- Communism, and Cold War Knowledge Production in East Africa, 1948–1975,” examines the intellectual and cultural work of anti/communist print culture in East Africa between 1949–1979. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship Program, which supports a cohort of faculty and […]