Past scholars
2022-2023 Resident Scholars
Joan Beaudoin
Associate Professor, School of Information Science
Documenting Detroit's Murals
Cassandra Davis
Assistant Professor, Marketing
Investigating how overweight consumers respond to marketing cues that emphasize a weight-neutral health evaluation
Michael Fuhlhage
Associate Professor, Communication
Investigating the ways journalists characterize Mexicans and Mexican Americans in their newswriting for periodicals and to explore the ways dime fiction authors characterize Mexicans and Mexican Americans.
Sharon Lean
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Programs, Political Science
"Institutionalizing Accountability: Oversight Institutions and the Challenge of Democratic Governance in Latin America"
Rahul Mitra
Associate Professor, Communication
"Detroit Water Stories: Grassroots Organizing for Water Security"
Anita Mixon
Assistant Professor, Communication
"The Political Frontier is Urban & Black: The Rhetoric of Black Womxnhood as Agents of Change" and "Life and Death: Black Motherhood in Crisis"
Bryan Parkhurst, Visiting Scholar, Oberlin College
Assistant Professor, Music Theory and Aural Skills
"Music, Marxism, and Meaning-Making"