Dresher Center Fall 2024 Fellows

This semester, three fellows will join us in the Dresher Center.

Nicole King, Associate Professor in American Studies, will work on her upcoming book project, The Ungentrifiable City, which traces the rise of urban renewal in the neoliberal city and grounds research in the often-overlooked fight for community-led development. The book explains how scholars can work with communities to fight back and reclaim the public’s right to the city from private developers.

Michael Nance, Associate Professor in Philosophy, is working on the first English translation of the political writings of the important early left-Kantian philosopher Johann Benjamin Erhard. In his 1795 text On the Right of the People to a Revolution, Erhard develops a Kantian approach to human rights, which, together with his social theory of the structural causes of injustice, allows him to argue for a right to revolution under conditions of structural injustice.

Sasha Krongos, an M.A. candidate in Historical Studies, will be researching popular printed material, including women’s magazines, ‘shelter’ magazines, and model home catalogs to examine their treatment of women’s participation in home-building and home-design between the years 1890 and 1920.