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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Omar Agustin Hernandez (Anthropology) is a member of the 24–25 graduate cohort for “Collisions Across Color Lines,” the third Interseminars project funded by the Mellon Foundation. Omar explained how his research interests and experience relates to Interseminars. In what ways do your research interests connect to the theme “Collisions Across Color Lines?” My research focuses […]
Jose Figueroa Díaz (Spanish, Literature and Culture) is a member of the 24–25 graduate cohort for “Collisions Across Color Lines,” the third Interseminars project funded by the Mellon Foundation. Jose reflects on how his experiences and interests align with Interseminars. In what ways do your research interests connect to the theme “Collisions Across Color Lines”? My […]
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 […]