JHI Stories delves a little deeper into what our Current and Alumni Fellows are working on, and reports on workshops and events. The most recent stories are below but we have lots of stories to tell! Check out our archive of all JHI Stories.
JHI Circle of Fellows Spotlight—Tong Lam
Tong is one of our 2024-25 JHI Faculty Research Fellows. His fellowship research project is titled Secrecy as Spectacle: Dust, Sand, and Cloud in China’s Atomic Age. Read more.
JHI Circle of Fellows Spotlight—Sarah Murray
Sarah is one of our 2024-25 JHI Faculty Research Fellows. Her fellowship research project is titled Descending through Hephaistos’ Sooty Realm: Metallurgy, Pyrotechnology, and Death Ritual in Early Greece. Read more.
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JHI Alumni Fellows Lecture Series: Liye Xie
Our new season of Alumni Research Profiles launches this month on our YouTube channel with Liye Xie (UTM Anthropology). This video presents some of Xie’s research as a 6-month JHI Faculty Research Fellow in 2023-24. Read more.
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The Future of History is Indigenous
JHI Visiting Indigenous Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor Aroha Harris, recently convened a gathering of Indigenous scholars of Indigenous historical studies together with Professor Mary Jane McCallum. Read more.
Absence of Knowledge: Recovering Lost Narratives
In this last episode of Series 1 of Humanities at Large, Kamari Maxine Clarke joins host Melissa Gismondi for a discussion about Clarke's work on absences in historical knowledge and archives. Read more.
JHI Circle of Fellows Spotlight—Aroha Harris
Aroha Harris is an associate professor in History at the University of Auckland. She is Māori and belongs to Te Rarawa and Ngāpuhi iwi (tribes). Aroha is our Distinguished Indigenous Faculty Research Fellow. Read more.
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Meet Yantong Li, U of T student and curator of the 2024-25 JHI Art Exhibition Morphing Land, Impalpable Currents. Read more.
Absence of Artifacts: Stolen Indigenous Objects—Series 1 Episode 5
In this conversation with host Melissa Gismondi, Shortt talks about the rematriation/repatriation of Indigenous artifacts as well their diverse influences. Read more.
Absence of Water: Touring Toronto—Series 1 Episode 4
Landscape architect Jane Wolff and Indigenous scholar Jennifer Wemigwans guide host Melissa Gismondi on a tour that explores how water is hidden in Toronto's urban landscape. Read more.