Join the Center for 21st Century Studies for concluding presentations from our 2025-26 cohort of research fellows<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Centering the humanities in the belief that groundbreaking ideas come from diversity of opinions, disciplines, and experiences, each year, C21 offers fellowships that provide the time, space, and collegial support to generate new knowledge and ideas. This year’s cohort conducted research and developed interdisciplinary projects that aligned with Slow Care<\/a>, C21’s 2025-26 research and programming theme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During this fellowship, Bassett worked on multivocal and collaborative autofiction, a project she began in summer 2025 with EQI\/MMSD interns and a workshop series at Ring Lake Ranch in Wyoming. This work is focused on creating connected futures by engaging with difficult stories, fostering empathy, and facilitating productive conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the 2025-2026 fellowship year, Beutner revised the follow-up novel to Killingly, <\/em>her second novel, <\/em>and initiated a new environmental writing project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Carroll researched and developed a podcast that situates Black migration to Milwaukee as a lens for exploring slow care and its impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Goerdt developed a well-being innovation lab through UW-Superior’s Pruitt Center for Mindfulness and Well-being that supports change-making efforts on innovative ideas to address the most challenging barriers to well-being, prioritizing projects that support youth and young adults in northwest Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kaganovich continued an ongoing project that integrates fungi into and around and sculpture, focusing on a review of literature relevant to the project, experimentation with wild and domesticated fungal material, and field and forest work to enable sharing the experience of the project with colleagues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Kim worked on a project about how narratives and interpretations that center the Anthropocene persist as dissenting forms of environmental memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nagy is an immigration researcher who examines how the social contexts in which immigrants reside affect their wellbeing. During her fellowship, Nagy sought to submit to publications, code recordings of intervention sessions, and leverage community-engaged methods to refine and optimize her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\tMay 15\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t @ \t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t3:00 pm\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t – \t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t5:00 pm\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n2025-26 Research Fellows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Sharity Bassett (Women\u2019s & Gender Studies)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Katharine Elizabeth Beutner (English)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Kidiocus King-Carroll (African & African Diaspora Studies)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Lynn Goerdt (Social Work, UW-Superior)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Yevgeniya Kaganovich (Art & Design)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Nan Kim (Anthropology)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Gabriela Nagy (Psychology)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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