Ryan Gunderson, Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Justice, has published more than 60 articles in journals including Environmental Politics, Journal of Cleaner Production, Organization & Environment. His books include Hothouse Utopia: Dialectics Facing Unsavable Futures (Zero Books, 2021) and Making the Familiar Strange: Sociology Contra Reification (Routledge, 2020) and, as co-author, The Degrowth Alternative (Routledge, 2020) and Climate Change Solutions: Beyond the Capital-Climate Contradiction (Michigan, 2020). In 2019 he won the Early Career Award from the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, and in 2020 received the Miami University Junior Faculty Scholar Award.
Michele Navakas, Professor of English, is the author of Coral Lives: Literature, Labor, and the Making of America (Princeton, 2023) and Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). She is currently working on a study of early twentieth-century reading habits and the emergence of ecology as a popular concept in the United States.
Conner Moore is a doctoral student in English literature. He received his M.A. in English literature from Miami University. His primary research interests include the decadent movement in nineteenth-century British and French literature, gender and sexuality studies, and Marxist theory.
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Casey Olthaus is an M.A. student in history and women, gender, and sexuality studies. She received her B.A. in history and sociology from the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests include applied feminist thought, queer theory, and the medical humanities.
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Annalise Chapdelaine is a senior honors student majoring in diplomacy and global politics, comparative religion, and German. She is a Presidential Fellow and a student research intern with Dr. Hillel Gray's "Empathy and the Religious Enemy project. Her research interests include ethnic nationalism, human rights and migration, conflict resolution, and Eastern and Central European studies.
Caleb Chun is a junior undergraduate student majoring in professional writing and history. He is also minoring in anthropology. His primary research interest is seventeenth-century East Asian history. He is currently focusing on the Imjin War, a conflict between Joseon Dynasty Korea and Japan's Toyotomi Dynasty.
Mollie Duffy is a junior honors student majoring in public administration. She is a civic engagement fellow at the Wilks Institute for Leadership and Service and holds two national fellowships with Civic Influencers and the Transformative Justice Coalition. She also serves on the Armstrong Student Center Board. Her research interests include election law and evaluating the effectiveness of United Nations policy. Mollie was selected as a Key into Public Service Scholar by Phi Beta Kappa Society in 2024.
Sam Fouts is a senior honors student studying literature and creative writing. He is interested in non-human perspectives in Medieval literature and his own work. His fiction is published in Sky Island Journal, The Drabble, and Flash Fiction Magazine.
Meredith Perkins is a junior Presidential Fellow majoring in diplomacy and global politics and creative writing with minors in history and French. An alumna of the Prodesse Scholar and Scholar Leader programs, she currently writes for The Miami Student and consults at the Howe Writing Center. Her research interests include post-communism in Eastern Europe, identity politics, and authoritarianism.
Ryan Rosu is a senior honors student majoring in English literature, philosophy, and film studies. He is the president of Zero Waste Oxford. His research interests include film history, modern philosophy, punk, and queerness in media.
Brian Vogt is a senior honors student with majors in creative writing and individualized studies: found object art. Brian has worked with world-renowned artist Ron Fondaw to create a sustainable sculpture out of adobe clay at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park in Hamilton, Ohio, where he also teaches found object workshops to kids. He recently created a sculpture composed of litter he found on Miami’s campus entitled The Student Body.
