Holly Day‘s writing has appeared in over 3,500 publications internationally, including Computer Music Journal, ROCKRGRL, Music Alive!, Guitar One, Brutarian Magazine, Interface Technology, and Mixdown Magazine. Sherman Wick has worked as a freelance writer and photographer, focusing on music, film, and Minnesota’s rich cultural and historica...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Day, Holly; Wick, Sherman
Created:
2015-11-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Steve LeBeau is Editor in Chief of Minnesota Business Magazine. He has more than 30 years of experience as a producer, writer and editor in radio, television, print and Internet, spanning the fields of journalism, public relations and entertainment. He served in the Communications Office of Governor Jesse Ventura for four years as a speechwriter...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
LeBeau, Steve
Created:
2015-11-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Italo-Canadian dancer and choreographer Gioconda Barbuto is the 2015 McKnight International Artist. A dancer of explosive wit, subtle intelligence, and a fine sense of theatricality, Gioconda has distinguished herself throughout her career in an impressive number of works. She danced with the Minnesota Dance Theatre before becoming a soloist wit...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Barbuto, Gioconda
Created:
2015-11-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Adam Muller is Associate Professor of English at the University of Manitoba (Canada). He specializes in the representations of war, genocide and mass violence, human rights, memory studies, critical theory, cultural studies, and analytic philosophy. At the IAS, Muller spoke on Embodying Empathy: Canadian Settler-Colonial Genocide and the Making ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Muller, Adam
Created:
2015-11-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
James Justus is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. His research interests are Philosophy of Science (especially biology), Carnap, Epistemology (especially formal and naturalized), Environmental Philosophy, and the History of Analytic Philosophy.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Justus, James
Created:
2015-11-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Craig Hassel is Associate Professor of Food Science and Nutrition and Extension Nutritionist at the University of Minnesota. His research explores "issues of food and health with cultural communities holding knowledge that does not correspond with Western science perspectives. This work pivots the culture/science relationship as it repositions s...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hassel, Craig
Created:
2015-11-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Thomas Fisher is a Professor in the School of Architecture and Dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. He has written extensively about architectural design, practice, and ethics. In this interview, he talks about his work on 21st-century cities and the "on-demand" economy.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fisher, Thomas
Created:
2015-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Cathy Jordan, PhD, LP, pediatric neuropsychologist by training, is an associate professor in the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. She is also an Extension Specialist in the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Community Vitality. Cathy has two primary are...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jordan, Cathy
Created:
2015-12-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Henry Buchwald is Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. During his more than 50 years at the University of Minnesota, Buchwald has been a surgeon, teacher, mentor, researcher, and inventor. His long-term research interests include cholesterol and atherosclerosis, obesity surgery, implantable devices, hyp...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Buchwald, Henry
Created:
2015-12-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Brenda Kayzar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society at the University of Minnesota. Her areas of expertise include downtown revitalization, housing provision, and environmental justice.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kayzar, Brenda
Created:
2016-01-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rich Horton is Facilitator, Writer, and Editor of Rift Magazine, an online and sometimes print magazine featuring local music and art from Minneapolis.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Horton, Rich
Created:
2016-01-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Barbara Draper’s poems have been or are pending publication in The Talking Stick, The Aurorean, and Passagers where her poem received an honorable mention. She’s a long time Michigander, now living in Minneapolis. For fun she enjoys downhill skiing and playing with her granddaughters.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Draper, Barbara
Created:
2016-02-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ot√°vio Bueno is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, where he is also Chair of the Philosophy Department. "Most of my work focuses on philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of logic. I have been trying to develop an empiricist view about science that is compatible with a nominalist view about mathemati...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bueno, Ot√°vio
Created:
2016-02-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Janaya Martin has been published in Oddball Magazine and The Grief Diaries and blogs at janayamartin.wordpress.com. She also hosts a monthly reading series at The Coffee Shop Northeast in NE Minneapolis. Her debut book is Tiptoe and Whisper.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Martin, Janaya
Created:
2016-02-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Samantha Bohrman is a writer based in Northeast Minneapolis: "Shortly after graduating from law school, I had three children and began writing novels. I have never looked back, though I suspect my husband has. When I’m not writing you can probably find me at Target forgetting to buy broccoli and shopping for scarves I don’t need. If it’s a...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bohrman, Samantha
Created:
2016-02-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristi Belcamino is a Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Award-nominated author of four crime fiction books, a newspaper cops reporter, and an Italian mama who makes a tasty biscotti. Her first novel, BLESSED ARE THE DEAD, was inspired by her dealings with a serial killer during her life as a Bay Area crime reporter. Belcamino has written and reported...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Belcamino, Kristi
Created:
2016-02-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Tressa Sularz is a fiber artist living and working in her home studio in Northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work reflects movement and transitions -- from curving forms suggesting movement, embellished with earthly stones suggesting timelessness to cocoons reflecting on a time of stillness and inwardness with eventual rejuvenation. This curre...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sularz, Tressa
Created:
2016-03-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Elaine Howard Ecklund is the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, and director of The Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University, where she is also a Rice Scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy. Over the next several years, Elaine’s research will explore how scientists in several national and r...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ecklund, Elaine
Created:
2016-03-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Bruce Glymour is Professor and department head of Philosophy at Kansas State University. In his career, he has been a co-instructor with the Seminar in Scientific Ethics for the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program and a past board member for Kansas Citizens for Science and the Center for Origins at K-State. He is also a past Fellow o...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Glymour, Bruce
Created:
2016-03-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Morgan Grayce Willow holds an M.A. in creative writing from Colorado State University. Her awards include: a SASE/Jerome Fellowship, Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowships in both poetry and prose, and a Loft-McKnight in poetry. Morgan’s chapbook Arpeggio of Appetite was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005. Her poems have also appeared i...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Willow, Morgan Grayce
Created:
2016-03-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Cristina Pippa completed her B.A. at Columbia University and her M.F.A. at the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop, where she received the Iowa Fellowship for the Arts and the Norman Felton Fellowship to participate in Sundance Theatre Lab. Cristina is one of the first Artists in Residence at the Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, NY,...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Pippa, Cristina
Created:
2016-04-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Naomi Scheman is Professor of Philosophy and Gender Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota, and a guest researcher at the Umeå Centre for Gender Studies in Sweden. She received her BA from Barnard College and her PhD from Harvard University. Her research interests include politics of epistemology, feminist theory, and trustw...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Scheman, Naomi
Created:
2016-04-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
