ICGC Colloquium Series

Marie's dissertation work was conducted in collaboration with the Rwanda Agriculture Board and the International Center for Global Agriculture, which pivoted to a fully remote research project during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Beverly studies migrant labor, land law, and Indigeneity in maritime Southeast Asia and her work has been published in interdisciplinary venues such as Philosophy Today and Culture, Theory and Critique.

Isaac's research centers on the intersections between Queer/Trans* Theory, Post-Colonial Theory, Marxism, and Indigenous Studies.

Catherine’s topics of interest include: gender & sexuality, maritime, and commodities.

Meixi's work  focuses on an enduring concern: how can schools contribute to the collective livelihoods and future wellbeing of Indigenous young people, their families, and the lands and waters where they live? The work interweaves comparative education, learning sciences and the study of micro-moments of interaction and trans-Indigenous scholarship in pursuit of this question.

Prof. Diaz is Chair of the Department of American Indian Studies and Director of The Native Canoe Program. Diaz is a leader in traditional canoe cultural revitalization and study in the Micronesian region of the Pacific Islands and in the development of global and comparative Indigenous Studies.

Nicholas' research examines a history from below by highlighting the local quotidian experiences of borderlanders — indigenous Africans who live(d) in adjacent Honde Valley and Inyanga areas along the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border. He brings borderlanders’ everyday lives and local sovereignties to the center of analysis to understand how people’s everyday life goals and desires have changed over time and space, sometimes working in harmony or defiance to nation-state organizing principles and apparatuses of control. He examines how borderlanders’ local ideas of space and mobilities to critique state-centered perspectives to African borderlands.

Fayola's areas of expertise are environmental planning, climate change, gender, race and ethnicity, urban and regional planning

Serra Hakyemez's research concentrates on the weaponization of law in pursuit of counterinsurgency war with a special focus on the criminalization of the Kurdish freedom movement since the 1980s. 

Katrina Klett is a 3rd year PhD student in the Department of Natural Resources Science and Management working in the honeybee lab on the St. Paul Campus. She is a beekeeper and is passionate about getting more habitat back onto the landscape in the Upper Midwest.

Lwando’s research focus is on what he loosely terms “queering the postcolony”. Lwando is looking to develop this concept of “queering the postcolony” and incorporate, engage, challenge, and stretch concepts such as decolonisation, sexuality (queerness), gender, culture, and futurities within the post-colonial South African context.