RPW Fellows
August 20
Apr. 30, 2025—
May 1 – August 19
Apr. 30, 2025—
December 6, “The Terms of the Lease: Race, Inequality, and the Renovation of the Landlord-Tenant Relationship”
Dec. 2, 2024—Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow Nathalie Barton is a historian of the United States in the twentieth century, with a focus on cities, racial inequality, and housing. Her research investigates how changing ideas of race and ownership have shaped experiences of home, real estate, and the urban built environment. Her current project centers on the landlord-tenant...
Why So Serious? How Mental Illness Became Laughable
Oct. 10, 2024—Sarah Hagaman, 2024-25 RPW Center Graduate Student Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of Emerging Technologies in Human Context: Past, Present, and Future Can you laugh at jokes about mental illness—even a joke about suicide? Breakout standup comedian Taylor Tomlinson thinks so. Yet nervous audience laughter—the equivalent of a collective tee-hee or a...
Cognitive Biases in Large Language Models
Sep. 27, 2024—David Thorstad, 2024-25 RPW Center Faculty Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of Emerging Technologies in Human Context: Past, Present, and Future It is often held that humans fall prey to a number of cognitive biases. For example, we may react differently to different framings of the same decision problem, or may anchor...
September 26: Sara Nisha Adams’s “The Reading List”
Sep. 16, 2024—
How did Nashville’s Youth (Re)Imagine the Future of Global Mall with Technology?
Sep. 6, 2024—Hannah Ziegler, 2024-25 RPW Center Graduate Student Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of Emerging Technologies in Human Context: Past, Present, and Future As part of my ongoing work with the Teens (Re-)Storying the Creek with STEM (T-ReCS) project, I have been interested in exploring ways to capitalize on the pedagogical affordances of...
Life-Affirming Cycling Practices in Quito, Ecuador
Aug. 23, 2024—Julie Gamble, 2024-25 RPW Center Faculty Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of Emerging Technologies in Human Context: Past, Present, and Future Daisi held her right arm in the air with a closed fist, a common signal for cyclists to use when coming to a stop. We stopped at her request and had...
Emerging Technologies and the Human Experience
May. 3, 2024—
Emerging Technologies and the Human Experience
Apr. 29, 2024—