Please join us in congratulating PhD Candidate, Jessennya Hernandez for being awarded the Humanities Research Institute's Graduate Student Fellowship for 2022-23 on the theme of "Un/doing." The fellowship enables advanced graduate students to develop their dissertations or research projects related to the broad theme of “Un/Doing” and to participate in the year’s activities, including the yearlong interdisciplinary Fellows Seminar and other related programming.  Graduate Student Fellows receive a $22,000 stipend and a tuition and partial fee waiver....

Brian F. O’Neill & Matthew Jerome Schneider The American public is split on support for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). This study seeks to better understand fracking attitudes by predicting support via economic, environmental, and public health concern. We find support for fracking is intertwined with political partisanship. We show those identifying as “other” political party are significantly more likely to claim “don’t know” in response to questions of fracking support. However, fracking attitudes are not solely the product of political ideology, but also of...