Category: Senior Fellows

The University Record spotlights wheelchair dancer, disability culture activist, and community performance artist Petra Kuppers, senior fellow (2021-24) and professor of English language and literature and of women’s and gender studies in LSA; professor of art in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design; and professor of theatre and drama, and of dance in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Learn more about Petra’s activism, methodology, and community events, like QueerCrip Pussy Poets’ Rest Stop and Turtle Disco, in the full feature.

A new PACT Act provides benefits to veterans exposed to toxicants in the line of duty, especially in Camp Lejeune, where the drinking water was contaminated by chemicals linked to cancers, birth defects, and other serious health problems. In modern Western life, exposure to toxicants is “common across the human life course,” says Dana Dolinoy, senior fellow (2022-26) and professor of environmental health sciences and nutritional sciences in the School of Public Health. “We can be exposed through the air we breathe, the water that we drink. Just going about our day-to-day lives, there are exposures that come through consumer products that we use,” from cosmetics to cookware. Read the TIME article.

Society of Fellows Chair, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English Language and Literature, and Professor of Program in the Environment Susan Scott Parrish sits down with the host of American History Storytellers (Wondery) to discuss how Americans experienced the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 through newspaper, radio, and pop culture coverage of the flood that swept away one town after another. Listen to their conversation and learn more about this slow-moving catastrophe.

Congratulations to senior fellow Ivette Perfecto on her election to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest distinctions for a scientist or engineer in the U.S. Read more at the University Record.

Congratulations to Heather Ann Thompson, senior fellow and professor of Afroamerican and African studies, history, and the Residential College on being among 184 writers, scholars, artists, and scientists awarded 2021 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation!

Senior Fellow Naomi André (professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and the Residential College) was named inaugural scholar in residence at the Seattle Opera.