News & Stories
Meet a Short-Term Fellow: Maddy Nyblade
Meet Maddy Nyblade, a PhD student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences studying the hydrology of Manoomin (wild rice) ecosystems as part of a tribal-university partnership, Kawe Gidaa-naanaagadawendaamin Manoomin. She is a member of the short-term fellows cohort examining The Mission of the Land Grant/Land Grab University.
Meet a Short-Term Fellow: Amanda Lyons
Meet Amanda Lyons, an IAS short-term fellow in the Water, Equity and Justice cohort. She is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law School.
MN Transform is Hiring!
MN Transform is hiring a UMN graduate student for a 20 hour/week opening for an administrative assistant.
Meet an IAS Staff Member: Sophie Hunt
Sophie B. Hunt recently started at the IAS as Internship Coordinator for Minnesota Transform.
Meet a Short-Term Fellow: Christian Bell
Meet Christian Bell, a short-term fellow in the Mission of the Land-Grant/Land-Grab University cohort.
Announcing the 2021 Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant Awardees!
We are delighted to announce the 2021 Humanities Without Walls Grand Research Challenge seed grant awardees for projects on methodologies of reciprocity and redistribution!
Meet an IAS Staff Member: Andrea Manolov
I am excited to be joining the IAS as a Media Specialist for the Minnesota Transform initiative. As a public historian I am passionate about practices of relationship building and collective history writing as a means of transformative justice.
Announcing Issue 18 of Open Rivers, Water Futures
On local and global scales, concerns about our water systems emerge from many directions. This new issue approaches the question of the future of water from a different angle by exploring practices that move us toward desirable futures with water.
Meet a Short-Term Fellow: Kathryn Nuernberger
Meet Kathryn Nuernberger, an IAS Short-Term Fellow in the Water, Equity, and Justice cohort.
Why Canoes? A New Exhibit in the Northrop Gallery
“Why Canoes: Capacious Vessels and Indigenous Futures of Minnesota's Peoples and Places” is now available for an online, virtual tour, as well as at Northrop's fourth-floor gallery. It explores the interconnectedness between the Native Canoe Program, University of Minnesota students, faculty, staff, and members of three Indigenous communities around Mni Sota Makoce (Minnesota).