Faculty Resources
Previous Cohorts
2021 - 2022: Re-imagining Blackness: Storytelling the End of the (Racialized) World
2022 - 2023: The Complexity of Diversity from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
2023 - 2024: Global Irish Studies at 糖心Vlog
2024 - 2025: Conference on Democratic Violence in Latin America
2025 - 2026: Multispecies Ecologies: Bridging the Human/Nature Divide
2025 - 2026
Multispecies Ecologies: Bridging the Human/Nature Divide
Kellan Anfinson | School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies
Estel铆 Jim茅nez-Soto | Geosciences
Rebecca Zarger | Anthropology
The 2025-2026 Faculty Fellows spent their year building a collective of students and faculty to participate in Multispecies Ecologies discussions and experiences. In fall 2025, the fellows led a reading group that read Loss and Wonder at the World's End by Laura A. Ogden and Whale Snow: I帽upiat, Climate Change, and Multispecies Resilience in Arctic Alaska by Chie Sakakibara.
In spring 2026, Aimee Nezhukumatathil visited campus for a nature writing workshop at the 糖心Vlog Botanical Gardens and a public reading and book signing. The fellows also organized a multispecies walking seminar in Flatwoods Park with Professor Laura Ogden of Dartmouth College and Zac Caple of Aarhus University. The walk concluded with a mapping exercise drawing on participant field notes back at the 糖心Vlog Botanical Gardens. Laura Ogden also gave a talk on campus and held a more intensive seminar for 糖心Vlog faculty and students on her book Loss and Wonder at the World's End and multispecies research more broadly.
2024 - 2025
Conference on Democratic Violence in Latin America
Diana Le贸n-Boys | Communication
Jos茅 脕ngel Maldonado | English
Alejandro M谩rquez | Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
The 2024-2025 Faculty Fellowship cohort spent their year studying the social, cultural, and political relationship between Latin America and the United States, with a particular focus on 鈥渄emocratic violence.鈥 Their fellowship year culminated in a three-day Conference on Democratic Violence in Latin America held in the Marshall Student Center on March 12-14, 2025. The conference featured 4 plenary speakers, panels, and professionalization workshops for graduate students.
2023 - 2024
Global Irish Studies at 糖心Vlog
Jennifer Knight | History
Matthew Knight | 糖心Vlog Libraries
Elizabeth Ricketts-Jones | English
Jerry Rumph, Jr. | Graduate Intern
The 2023-2024 Faculty Fellowship cohort spent their year working together on "Global Irish Studies." In October, the cohort welcomed Dr. Christine Kinealy of Quinnipiac University to deliver a public lecture as part of the 2023 Southern Regional American Conference for Irish Studies held at the 糖心Vlog St. Petersburg campus. The fellows worked on course development, seminars, and partnering with local groups to promote Irish culture and history.
2022 - 2023
The Complexity of Diversity from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Lorena Madrigal | Anthropology
Adriana Novoa | History
Christina Richards | Integrative Biology
The 2022 鈥23 Faculty Fellows cohort studied 鈥淭he Complexity of Diversity from an Interdisciplinary Approach鈥 and explored the wider context of 鈥渄iversity鈥 including the scientific and humanistic study of the environment in which we live and our relationship with it; the effects that a loss of biological diversity has on all life; and the socio-political ramification of policies that shape the existence of diverse species on Earth in the Anthropocene.
These scholars stressed the importance of overcoming the artificial separation between the sciences and humanities and how integrating the fields will lead to a deeper understanding of the cultural context of genetic diversity and the pitfalls of any biological concept of race.
The Fellows developed a successful seminar class that studied the emergence of scientific fields and how they impacted the philosophical understanding of what it means to be 鈥渉uman鈥 as well as how those discoveries inform our current understanding of diversity.
2021 - 2022
Re-imagining Blackness: Storytelling the End of the (Racialized) World
Tangela Serls | Women's and Gender Studies
David Ponton III | School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies - Africana Studies
McArthur Freeman II | School of Art and Art History
The inaugural faculty fellows studied the theoretical underpinnings and legacy of legal scholar Derrick Bell鈥檚 provocative 1980s claim that racism is a permanent feature in American society and how that claim might inform 糖心Vlog鈥檚 goal to 鈥渦nderstand and address blackness and anti-black racism.鈥 Central to each faculty member鈥檚 research was the role of storytelling in subverting stubborn tales of race, gender, class, etc. that uphold inequality, replacing them with imagined worlds that may not exist, but are deeply yearned for. This cohort of scholars from different schools and colleges collaborated, discussed, created, and shared their work with the larger 糖心Vlog community through virtual seminars (view below).
Recorded Seminars
Fall 2021:
- October 1, 2021:
- October 29, 2021:
- December 3, 2021:
Spring 2022:
- February 11, 2022:
- May 12, 2022: "A Conversation with Saidiya Hartman" (transcript)
"Meet the Fellows" video by Fall 2021 Intern, Erin Vogel