Research Rethinks Urban Autonomy for Latinx Women, Femme Creatives

Jessennya Hernandez (Sociology) is a 2022–2023 HRI Campus Graduate Student Fellow. Hernandez’s project, “Mycorrhizal Assemblages: Everyday Latinx Strategies and Embodied Feminist Knowledge,” examines the everyday lives of working-class queer immigrant Latinx women and femme political-creatives living in greater Los Angeles. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship Program, which supports a cohort of faculty and graduate students […]

Archival Research Traces Indigenous Mexican Migration to U.S. South

Yuridia Ramírez (History) is a 2022–2023 HRI Campus Faculty Fellow. Ramírez’s project, “Indigeneity on the Move: Transborder Politics from Michoacán to North Carolina,” traces the movement of P’urhépecha migrants from Cherán, Michoacán, México, to and from North Carolina during the late twentieth century. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship Program, which supports a cohort of faculty […]

Movement and Meaning in Indian Diplomacy

Nicole Cox (Anthropology) is a 2022–2023 HRI Graduate Fellow. Cox’s project, “Re/Moving the State: Multiple Productivities of Embodied Practice in Indian Diplomacy” focuses on the role of embodied practices such as dance and yoga in India’s public diplomacy and seeks to undo invisible and oversimplified notions about global Indian heritage, state power, and the moving […]

Communication Research Identifies Visual Logics of Race

Daniel DeVinney (Communication) is a 2022–2023 HRI Campus Graduate Fellow. DeVinney’s project, “The Post-Racial Imaginary: Visual Logics of Race in the Obama and Early Trump Eras,” examines the visual culture of the post-racial myth during the Obama and early Trump eras. According to DeVinney’s research, this decade was not beyond race, but instead was a […]

Interseminars Spotlight: Ray Martinez

Ray Martinez (Spanish and Portuguese) is a member of the 22–23 graduate cohort for “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas,” the inaugural Interseminars initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. He shares about his experiences with Interseminars below. The Interseminars Initiative is gearing up for the second round of the grant in 23–24! Learn more about Interseminars. […]

Interseminars Spotlight: Toyosi Tejumade-Morgan

Toyosi Tejumade-Morgan (Theatre) is a member of the 22–23 graduate cohort for “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas,” the inaugural Interseminars initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. She shares about her experiences with Interseminars below. The Interseminars Initiative is gearing up for the second round of the grant in 23–24! Learn more about Interseminars. View […]

Interseminars Spotlight: Kofi M. Bazzell-Smith

Kofi M. Bazzell-Smith (Art and Design) is a member of the 22—23 graduate cohort for “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas,” the inaugural Interseminars project funded by the Mellon Foundation. He shares about his experiences with Interseminars below. The Interseminars Initiative is gearing up for the second round of the grant in 23—24! Learn more about Interseminars. […]

Interseminars Spotlight: María B. Serrano-Abreu

María B. Serrano-Abreu (Educational Psychology) is a member of the 22—23 graduate cohort for “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas,” the inaugural Interseminars initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. She shares about her experiences with Interseminars below. The Interseminars Initiative is gearing up for the second round of the grant in 23—24! Learn more about […]

Interseminars Spotlight: Beatriz Jiménez

Beatriz Jiménez (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) is a member of the 22—23 graduate cohort for “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas,” the inaugural Interseminars initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. She shares about her experiences with Interseminars below. The Interseminars Initiative is gearing up for the second round of the grant in 23—24! Learn […]