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Evelyn views writing as a technology that plays just as significant a part in environmental change as do other technologies.

At the University of Minnesota, the Graduate and Professional Scholarly Excellence in Equity and Diversity (SEED) Award honors graduate students whose research focuses on…

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Alumna Lauren Fox hits the bestseller lists with a historical novel inspired by family letters.

Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt loves studying the workplace--learning about how different workplaces operate, what challenges and affordances they have, how they can become more…

PhD candidate Jacqueline Patz DiPiero argues that contemporary storytelling emphasizes atmosphere above plot and characters.

McKinley researches social justice in technical and professional communication and investigates communication about HIV on digital technologies and social media. He is…

Inspired by the Brexit debate, PhD candidate Bomi Jeon is writing an award-winning dissertation.

PhD student Zoë Rodine argues that fictional monsters provide new frameworks for humanness.

David Rodríguez-Martínez contributes to a transnational crime film anthology.

PhD candidate John VanOverbeke is researching the repercussions of John Muir’s belief in "untouched" nature.

PhD candidate Eunkyung Cho argues that a 1605 comedy satirizes its own reason for being.

PhD candidate Stephen Ellis awarded a University-wide Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship for research on literary culture and law studies

Phoebe Young is a Saginaw Chippewa descendant from Michigan, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and currently residing in Minneapolis.  She attended Brown University and as…

Kristen Reynolds is a military brat whose family is from California by way of Mississippi and Louisiana. She earned her bachelor's in Biology (from Johnson C. Smith University…

Dewitt King is a PhD student in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is a geographer who thinks critically and carefully about race, space, place, and power.

Chelsea Osademe is a native of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She received her B.A. in English from Spelman College in 2017 and M.A. in English from Kansas State University in 2019.

Ayaan Natala is a research-scholar-activist. She double majored in Political Science and American Studies with a concentration in Human Rights and Humanitarianism at…

“One of my aims...is to clarify unwritten history on issues that have received little attention,” explains political science PhD candidate and recipient of the Leadership…