Each year, the STRC selects a theme that is both timely and lends itself to humanities inquiry. For 2025-2026, the theme was The Art of Change.
Faculty Cohort
Faculty Research Fellow
Dr. Michael McIntyre
International Studies
"Deolinda Rodrigues and the African Anticolonial Archive"
Faculty Research Fellow
Dr. Xorla Ocloo
African and Black Diaspora Studies
"Sowing Seeds and Building Neighborhood Resilience through Urban Farming"
Faculty Professional Development Fellow
Dr. Amor Kohli
African and Black Diaspora
"Spirit and Structure in the Music of Alice Coltrane"
Faculty Professional Development Faculty
Dr. Shiera Malik
International Studies
"Encountering the Stranger: Project Development for Curating Close Encounters with African Anticolonial Archives"
Student Cohort
Graduate Student Fellow
Rosbel Garza-Hernandez
Graduate Student Fellow
Sukhmani Mandair
Graduate Student Fellow
Bridget Salada
Undergraduate Student Fellow
Karmen Johnson
"Female Circumcision or Female Genital Mutilation?"
Undergraduate Student Fellow
Angelique Lara
"White Wishing and Fear of the Feminine: Race, Machismo, and the Paradoxes of Diasporic Trauma in the Work of Junot Diaz"
Undergraduate Student Fellow
Kei Smith
"The Complicity of Psychiatric Care: American Military PTSD Manuals and the Obfuscation of International Violence"
Undergraduate Student Fellow
Robyn Underwood
"Unshackling Enslaved Minds: Black Public Spheres, Literacy and Resistance in the Fight for Freedom in the 1800s"
Undergraduate Student Fellow
Zoe-Anna Wilson
Undergraduate Student Fellow
Vivian Wong
"Catering to New People in the Hood: How Slum Narratives and Repackaged Mexicanidad Devalue Mexican Residents in Pilsen"