SAR 2018-2019 Resident Scholars and Fall Colloquia
Introductory Presentations
September 19, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
Introductory Presentations by Resident Scholars, Indian Arts Research Center Interns, and the Native artist fellow provide an overview of the research and projects that will be explored while at SAR. Read More
John Arroyo
Assistant Professor in Engaging Diverse Communities, School of Planning, Public Policy and Management, University of Oregon
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Latino Studies / Arroyo’s work explores how people of Mexican-origin navigate the challenges of urbanism when settling in places unprepared for seismic population shifts. Read More
Aesthetics and Agency: Mexican Migration and Housing Form and Policy in Suburban Atlanta
October 31, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
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Giovanni Batz
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Miami University
Anne Ray Fellow / Batz focuses on Cotzal, Guatemala, and the arrival of megaprojects known as “new” or “fourth” invasions. Previous invasions include Spanish colonization, nineteenth century creation of plantations, and the Guatemalan civil war (1960–1996). Read More
The Fourth Invasion: Development, Ixil-Maya Resistance, and the Struggle Against Megaprojects in Guatemala
October 24, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
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William Calvo-Quiros
Assistant Professor, Department of American Culture and Latino Studies, University of Michigan
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Latino Studies / Calvo-Quiros’ project analyzes the emergence, evolution, and migration of five folk border saints as historical artifacts that embody the struggles of migrating Latinx communities in the last one-hundred years. Read More
“Blessed Amongst Us”: The Politics of Popular Religious Migration
October 10, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
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Mayanthi Fernando
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Weatherhead Fellow / Fernando explores why scholars are more open to accepting mosquitos, mollusks, and mountains rather than angels, djinn, and other spirits as historical actors with whom humans are always in relation. Read More
SuperNatureCulture: Human-Nonhuman Entanglements Beyond the Secular
October 17, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
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Beth Semel
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weatherhead Fellow / Semel investigates the work of U.S. university-based research teams of psychiatric and engineering professionals collaborating to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled speech analysis technologies, which explore how researchers insist that their technologies can identify signs of mental illness that are otherwise inaudible to humans. Read More
Do Androids Dream of Electric Speech? Listening Practices in Automated Psychiatric Assessment
November 7, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
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Melanie Yazzie
Assistant Professor, Department of Native American Studies and the Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico
Katrin H. Lamon Fellow / By examining two biopolitical modalities through which twentieth-century Navajo life has been shaped and contested, Yazzie assesses anti-capitalist decolonization struggles in Diné Bikeyah and beyond. Read More
Resource Extraction and Relational Futures in Diné Bikeyah
October 3, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm