Scholarly Retreats
Since 2014, A Studio in the Woods has hosted academics and scholars for residencies, providing a creative respite from life at the university. Current programs include:
Tulane ByWater Institute Scholarly Retreats – The ByWater Institute and A Studio in the Woods seek to enhance and support the scholarship, creativity and cross-disciplinary activity of Tulane faculty and trainees using the lens of any field or discipline to examine environmental challenges, issues, or questions.
Tulane School of Liberal Arts Scholarly Retreats – Funded by the School of Liberal Arts, A Studio in the Woods hosts 4 one-week residencies for Liberal Arts faculty to write scholarly publications, work on creative projects, or begin work on a new project each academic year.
Tulane English Department Graduating Senior Retreat – Each academic year, the Tulane Department of English awards one exceptional graduating senior in the Creative Writing concentration with a three day retreat.
Xavier University Scholarly Retreats – We have partnered with Xavier University to host two Faculty Writing Retreat Fellowships each academic year. Xavier Scholarly Retreats are supported by Xavier University’s Office of Academic Affairs.
Scholarly Residents
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Ilana Horwitz Scholar, 2024, Louisiana Ilana Horwitz is an Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Sociology, and the Fields-Rayant Chair of Contemporary Jewish Life at the Stuart and Suzanne Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience at Tulane University. Her research takes a sociological approach… -
Lee Veeraraghavan Scholar, 2024, Louisiana Lee Veeraraghavan is an ethnomusicologist, and her work has focused on the radical environmentalist and Indigenous sovereignty movements in Canada. She has written about music, sound, and adjacent concepts that support infrastructures of colonial governance and ideology, i.e., the mobilization… -
Sukari Ivester Scholar, 2024, Louisiana Dr. Sukari Ivester is a sociologist and urban planner with a focus on hazard mitigation, environmental justice and the preservation of heritage in coastal frontline communities. Dr. Ivester’s research at ASITW focuses on the ways racial inequalities are implicated and… -
Katharine Lee Scholar, 2024, Louisiana Katharine Lee is a biological anthropologist and feminist scholar whose research focuses on menstruation, physical activity, and bone health. As part of her research, she collected data about changes in menstrual bleeding after vaccination for SARS-CoV-2. This project generated significant… -
Emma Verstraete Scholar, 2024, Louisiana Emma Verstraete is a historical archaeologist and anthropologist who looks at the role of medicine and culture in how we understand the concept of health in the past and present. While in residence, she will collaborate with Dr. Katie Lee… -
Dara Bramson Scholar, 2024, Florida Dara Bramson is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology. She conducted ethnographic fieldwork in northern India on Tibetan medicine in exile. Her residency time will be dedicated to reflecting and writing on environmental issues faced by an ancient… -
Jeremy Fagan & Ally Noyes Scholars, 2024, Louisiana Jeremy Fagan and Ally Noyes are 4th-year medical students, organizers, artists, and friends. They co-ran the Sexual Health elective in 2021 and are co-editors of Lagniappe Art and Literature Magazine. Over the past four years, they have been developing a concept for… -
Cory Diane Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Cory Diane is a composer, researcher, and MA Candidate in Music Composition at Tulane University. At A Studio in the Woods, they will continue work on a project that uses sound as a means for exploring the complex ecologies and… -
Stephanie Felder Scholar, 2023, Lousiana Dr. Stephanie Felder is a Commander (CDR) in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. She serves as the Chief Licensed Clinical Social Worker within the Office of the Secretary (OS), Office of the Assistant Secretary (OASH), Office of Surgeon… -
Indira Harris Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Dr. Indira Harris is an adjunct professor at Tulane University, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and Board-Certified Diplomate, with over 20 years of clinical, management, and leadership experience in various behavioral health settings in the State of Florida and the US… -
Michelle Foa Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Michelle Foa is Associate Professor of European art of the eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries in the Newcomb Art Department at Tulane, with a particular focus on nineteenth-century French art, visual and material culture, and criticism. She is currently… -
Guadalupe García Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Guadalupe García specializes in the history of cities and colonialism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her research examines the intersections of colonialism, empire, and urban space and focuses on free, black, and enslaved peoples in Havana. Her work has… -
Jerome Dent Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Jerome Dent is an assistant professor at Tulane University, jointly appointed in the departments of Communication and Africana Studies. His research interests include film, genre, sexuality, race, psychoanalysis, and gender. While in the Woods, he worked on a draft of… -
Stephanie Porras Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Stephanie Porras is an art historian of the early modern period, ca. 1400-1700. In the Woods, she edited and worked on the Introduction to the 2023 volume of the Netherlandish Yearbook for the History of Art (NKJ), on the theme,… -
Leslie Haas Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Leslie Haas’ experience in literacy education includes teaching at the K-12, undergraduate, and graduate levels. Additional experiences include instructional coaching, professional development, curriculum design, and department administration. Opportunities in highly diverse settings have acted as both a catalyst and foundation… -
Jason S. Todd Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Dr. Jason S. Todd is an Associate Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana. He received his Ph.D. from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi in 2006. His fiction has appeared in a variety of… -
Lisa Calvente Scholar, 2023, North Carolina Dr. Calvente’s primary areas of research are Black Studies, Performance Studies, and Cultural Studies. Her interests lie in the critical interrogation of anti-black and brown racism and the experiences, representations, and theories of the Black Diaspora and coloniality. Her current… -
Mae Graber Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Mae Graber graduated Tulane as a non-traditional student in 2022. Her short stories center around the small town in central Ohio where she grew up. -
Danielle St Julien Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Danielle St. Julien is an Assistant Professor of History at Xavier University of Louisiana. Her research focuses on post-World War II U.S. politics, race, and political culture. Her current book project explores how and why 1970s political commentators used the… -
Carmen Cosme Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Carmen Luz Cosme Puntiel, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Languages at Xavier University. Her research looks into the subjectivity, intellectual creativity, and political imagination of enslaved and free… -
Hongwei Thorn Chen Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Hongwei Thorn Chen is an Assistant Professor in Communication and Asian Studies at Tulane University. He received his PhD in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. Chen’s research examines nontheatrical film, media history, and the trajectories… -
Ryder Thornton Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Ryder Thornton is a theatre artist and scholar who has directed nearly 50 productions at venues throughout the US and abroad, including devised and site-specific theatre. He recently directed Melancholy Play at Loyola University and Machinal at Tulane University, which… -
Berlin Londono Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Berlin Londono is a microbiologist currently working as the lead scientist of the Arbovirology and Immunology Laboratory. Her research is focused on the characterization of mosquito salivary proteins as markers for disease risk and transmission dynamics. -
Katie Vigil Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Katie Vigil is a certified California public health microbiologist (PHm) that got a master’s in science (M.S.) and bachelors in science (B.S.) from Humboldt State University where she used molecular methods to study Rickettsia bacteria in Ixodes pacificus ticks. She… -
Denise Frazier Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Denise Frazier is an educator, musician, and interdisciplinary artist from Houston, who has lived and worked in New Orleans since 2002. She is the assistant director of the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University, a place-based… -
Elizabeth Engler-Chiurazzi Scholar, 2023, Louisiana Dr. Liz grew up swimming and surfing in a lovely southern California town called Thousand Oaks, went to school in Arizona (Go Sun Devils!) to earn her Ph.D. in Psychology with a focus on behavioral neuroscience and women’s health, moved… -
Udita Mukherjee Scholar, 2022, Louisiana Udita Mukherjee is a PhD candidate and Vokes Fellow in the Earth and Environmental Sciences department at Tulane University. She is a geologist interested in understanding how sea level has changed in the past, and the effect these changes have… -
Thomas Sherry Scholar, 2022, Louisiana Thomas Sherry has taught at Tulane since Spring 1989, after extensive studies at Dartmouth College (undergraduate, MS degree, and post-doc) and UCLA (Ph.D. dissertation). He is married with two grown children, and enjoys gardening, watching birds, hiking and camping, cooking,… -
Rachel Stein Scholar, 2022, Louisiana Rachel Stein is Research & Instruction Librarian at The Latin American Library at Tulane University. She holds a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University. Her research explores the intersections of early modern publishing and the transoceanic… -
Ned Randolph Scholar, 2022, Louisiana A former journalist and speechwriter for the mayor of New Orleans, Ned Randolph investigates intersections of power, social justice, and the environment, particularly in the Gulf South. He received his PhD in Communication from the University of California San Diego… -
Serena Chaudhry Scholar, 2022, Louisiana Dr. Serena Chaudhry is a social worker and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Tulane and the Clinical Director of the Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic. Her professional interests focus on chronic mental illness and forced… -
Leslie Scott Scholar and Performing Artist, 2022, Louisiana Leslie Scott is a researcher of movement in the studio, classroom, screen, and sidewalk. She is an Assistant Professor of Dance and New Media at Tulane University and the founder and Artistic Director of BODYART (www.bodyartdance.com) a multi-media contemporary dance… -
Robin Runia Scholar, 2022, Louisiana Robin Runia is Associate Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana. She has published extensively on women’s writing of the eighteenth century. She used her time in the woods to examine representations of reading and friendship in women writers… -
Daniella Mascarenhas Scholar, 2022, Louisiana Dr. Daniella Mascarenhas is an assistant professor of political science at Xavier University of Louisiana. Her research focuses on the political theory of punishment and civic education especially exploring these questions through the “Liberalism and Its Critics” movement within the… -
Megan Faust Scholar, 2022, Louisiana Megan Faust is a PhD candidate in the City, Culture, and Community Program’s Urban Studies track at Tulane University, studying the intersection of race and space. Her dissertation work seeks to articulate how racial trauma becomes emplaced as well as… -
Devin Wright Scholar, 2022, Louisiana Devin Wright is in the interdisciplinary City, Culture, and Community PhD program at Tulane University. Her research revolves around critically understanding the material and symbolic relationships between climate, (urban/peri-urban) environment, social structure (particularly gender), and everyday lived experience. She employs… -
Marko Salvaggio Scholar, 2022, Louisiana Marko Salvaggio is an environmental sociologist and Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Tulane University. He also teaches social sciences courses for Tulane’s School of Professional Advancement. Prior to Tulane, he was Assistant Professor of… -
Torbjorn Tornqvist Scholar, 2022, Louisiana Torbjorn Tornqvist is an environmental scientist whose research is heavily focused on coastal Louisiana. Among others, he studies sea-level change, land subsidence, and coastal evolution with the goal of better predicting the future of this region as well as similar… -
Felipe Cruz Scholar, 2022, Louisiana Felipe Cruz is a historian of technology whose research focuses on the relationship between technology and culture, as well as an avid developer in methods and tools for the digital humanities. He recently completed a book manuscript titled “Flight of… -
CC Molaison Scholar, 2022, Louisiana CC was born and raised in New Orleans. Her paternal grandfather’s family has lived in Algiers for eight generations, and her grandmother’s family is from Panama. Her mother’s family lives at the other end of the Mississippi River, in Minnesota.… -
Alexander Burin Scholar, 2021, Louisiana A professor in the School of Science and Engineering, Alexander Burin’s research is in three areas of theoretical physical chemistry. The first area involves collaborative investigation of charge and exciton transport in DNA affected by the environment (solvent), charge-induced molecular… -
Christopher Dunn Scholar, 2021, Louisiana Christopher Dunn received his Ph.D. in Luso-Brazilian Studies from Brown University in 1996, the same year he joined the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University. He holds a joint appointment with the African and African Diaspora Studies Program… -
Loren Gragert Scholar, 2021, Louisiana An Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine, Dr. Loren Gragert received his PhD in Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology from the University of Minnesota in 2014. He was a bioinformatics scientist at National Marrow Donor Program / Be The… -
Ann Yoachim Scholar, 2021, Louisiana Ann Yoachim is a Professor of Practice at the Tulane School of Architecture and the Director of the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design. Her research and practice focusses on the intersections of built, natural, and socially constructed… -
Mia L. Bagneris Scholar, 2021, Louisiana Associate Professor Mia L. Bagneris teaches African diaspora art history and studies of race in Western Art. She is also Director of the Africana Studies Program. Concentrating primarily on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and American art and visual culture, much… -
Michelle Kohler Scholar, 2021, Louisiana Michelle Kohler is an Associate Professor of English with research and teaching interests in 19th-century American literature, poetry and poetics, and environmental studies. She is author of Miles of Stare: Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision in Nineteenth-Century America… -
Ross Louis Scholar, 2021, Louisiana Ross Louis is a performance scholar/artist who works as a Professor of Performance Studies and co-director of the Performance Studies Lab at Xavier University of Louisiana. In 2019, he was a faculty in residence at the Université de Lyon 3… -
Emily Elizabeth Thompson Scholar, 2021, Louisiana Emily recently completed a BA from Tulane University in English. Her work includes a personal essay called “Pretty Weird,” which was published in Ink in 2017, and a short story collection called Ugly Good, which won A Studio in the… -
Jabari Brown, Kevin Connell, Jeanne Firth and Theo Hilton Scholars, 2021, Louisiana Jabari Brown, Kevin Connell, Jeanne Firth, and Theo Hilton are scholars, farmers, food activists, and educators who have been co-creating work under the broad theme of the History of the Land. Inspired by the “History of the Land” workshop at… -
Daniel B. Sharp Scholar, 2021, Louisiana Daniel B. Sharp is a music and sound scholar trained in ethnomusicology who focuses on popular and experimental music in the Americas. He is Associate Professor and Chair of Music at Tulane University, jointly appointed in Latin American Studies. His… -
Eric Herhuth Scholar, 2021, Louisiana Eric Herhuth is Assistant Professor of Communication and Director of Film Studies at Tulane University. His research areas include animation and film studies, aesthetics and politics, and media and film theory. He has published in the Quarterly Review of Film… -
Dovile Vilda Scholar, 2020, Louisiana Dovile Vilda’s academic and research background is in social policy analysis and child/youth research, and her current work examines the role of state-level policies and other social determinants on maternal and child health. She received a Ph.D. in Child &… -
José Sánchez Vera Scholar, 2020, Louisiana José Sánchez Vera is a Ph.D. Candidate at Tulane University’s Spanish and Portuguese Department. His research focuses on contemporary Mexican and Central American Literature taking the interdisciplinary point of view of ecocriticism. His dissertation explores how Mexico City’s ecological crisis… -
AnnieLaurie Erickson Visual Artist and Scholar, 2020, Lousiana AnnieLaurie Erickson is an Associate Professor and the head of photography in the Newcomb Art Department of Tulane. Her work explores how science can combine with artistic creation to probe social and environmental issues in the Gulf South through the… -
Jenny Mercein Scholar, 2020, Louisiana Jenny Mercein is an actor, teacher, writer, and director. A member of Actors Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA, Jenny’s acting credits span theater, film, and television. Along with KJ Sanchez, Jenny is the co-creator of the acclaimed docudrama X’s and O’s… -
Robin Bartram Scholar, 2020, Louisiana Robin Bartram is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tulane University. Bartram’s research focuses on cities, regulations, housing, and inequality. While in residence she worked on a book manuscript, Cities of Stacked Decks: Code Enforcement, Inequality, and Frontline Justice which… -
Arianna King Scholar, 2020, Louisiana Arianna King is an RPCV, recent Fulbright alumna, and current doctoral candidate in Tulane’s interdisciplinary City, Culture, and Community Doctoral Program. She has recently returned from a year of ethnographic fieldwork in Cape Coast, Ghana and used her time at… -
Haley Peele Scholar, 2020, Louisiana Haley Peele, M.A., M.S. is a doctoral student in school psychology at Tulane University. Her research interests include social justice oriented, strengths based interventions to disrupt the disproportionate discipline and incarceration of Black individuals and improve familial relationships. She recently… -
Laura Rosanne Adderley Scholar, 2020, Louisiana An Associate Professor of history in the School of Liberal Arts, Laura Rosanne Adderley is primarily a historian of Black experience in the Americas during the years of slavery, but is also broadly interested in African-American history, Caribbean history and… -
Andrew McDowell Scholar, 2020, Louisiana An Assistant Professor in the School of Liberal Arts, Andrew McDowell is a medical anthropologist specializing in the social worlds of tuberculosis (TB) and TB care in India. His project combines an interest in entanglements of social, bacterial, and technical… -
Larkin Page Scholar, 2020, Louisiana Dr. Larkin Page, Associate Professor/Researcher, Division of Education-Xavier University of Louisiana, holds a Ph.D. in Reading/Literacy. He is a former elementary school teacher in diverse urban settings. These experiences contribute to his research interests that in the context of Literacy/Reading… -
Riley Moran Scholar, 2020, Louisiana Riley Moran is a Floridian, a student at Tulane University, and the recipient of the 2020-21 English Department Graduating Senior Retreat at A Studio in the Woods. Her senior thesis is on the subversive political strategies of women writing the… -
Marcia Glass Scholar, 2019, Louisiana Glass used her time in residence to create a year-long curriculum in palliative care, finish editing her book with Oxford University Press, Palliative Care in Crisis Areas, publish a blog story, work on pieces for her blog on the opioid… -
Jeffrey Tasker Scholar, 2019, Louisiana A professor of neuroscience, Jeffrey Tasker used his time in residence to write a major review article focusing on rapid signaling mechanisms of a novel membrane glucocorticoid receptor and its role in affective disorders of the brain. The Tasker lab uses… -
Katharine Jack Scholar, 2019, Louisiana Katharine Jack is a primate behavioral ecologist whose research examines male reproductive strategies and hormonal correlates of male dominance rank and life history status. Jack has studied a number of different primate species throughout her career, though the bulk of… -
Erin Glackin Scholar, 2019, Louisiana Erin Glackin is a fifth-year graduate student in the School Psychology doctoral program. Her research and clinical interests center on the experience and impact of violence and other forms of trauma, particularly when experienced in early life. Ms. Glackin has… -
Sarah Garner Scholar, 2019, Louisiana Sarah E. Garner holds multiple appointments at Tulane as Director of Pathologists’ Assistant Program; Assistant Professor Department of Cell and Molecular Biology – Tulane University School of Science and Engineering; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Structural and Cellular Biology –… -
Kate Baldwin Scholar, 2019, Louisiana Kate Baldwin is a scholar and teacher who specializes in comparative literary and cultural histories. Her first book, Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, remaps black American modernism by addressing the involvement… -
Jessica Liddell Scholar, 2018, Louisiana Jessica Liddell participated in a scholarly retreat in fall of 2018 where she continued work on the literature review for her dissertation. Originally from Logan, Utah, Jessica Liddell completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon.… -
Sarah Woodward Scholar, 2018, Louisiana Sarah Woodward worked on her disseratation in the Woods during a scholarly retreat in fall of 2018. Sarah Woodward is a proud New Orleans native. Her research interests include the intersections between art, technology, and education in improving outcomes for… -
Danica Brown Scholar, 2018, Louisiana Danica Brown worked on revising her area exam, preparing her dissertation and conducting data analysis for a research paper during a scholarly retreat in the Woods in the fall of 2018. Danica is a Ph.D. candidate in the City, Culture,… -
Adam Crosson Scholar, Visual Artist, 2018, Louisiana During a scholarly retreat in the fall of 2018 Adam Crosson worked toward completing a video work. Adam Crosson received his MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from The University of Texas at Austin where he was a Jack G.… -
Anastasia Kurdia Scholar, 2017, Louisiana A professor in the Computer Science program of the School of Science and Engineering, Dr. Kurdia came to A Studio in the Woods to create new and engaging materials for Tulane’s CS program and adapt those materials for Engage-cs.edu, an… -
Amalia Leguizamón Scholar, 2017, Louisiana While in residence, Amalia Leguizamón worked towards completing a manuscript entitled Seeds of Power: Genetically Modified Crops and Socio-Environmental Change in Argentina. Leguizamón is a sociologist interested in the political economy of the environment in Latin America. She is curious… -
Nathan J. Lyons Scholar, 2017, Louisiana Nathan Lyons is a geomorphologist, a scientist that studies the processes and landforms at Earth’s surface. Nathan used his residency to bring together geologists and evolutionary biologists to begin a new research project. This group set out to test ideas… -
Ignacio Sarmiento Scholar, 2017, Louisiana A PhD Candidate in Spanish, Ignacio Sarmiento’s research focuses on postwar Central American literature, paying particular attention to the problems of mourning and national community in Salvadoran and Guatemalan fiction. Sarmiento used his residency to work toward completing his dissertation. -
Chris Rodning Scholar, 2017 and 2019, Louisiana All anthropologists, Christopher Rodning, Marcello Canuto, Tatsuya Murakami, and Jason Nesbitt engaged in collaborative retreats at A Studio in the Woods to explore and exchange ideas about the archaeology of monuments within cultural landscapes in the ancient Americas in both… -
Anjali Niyogi Scholar, 2017, Louisiana Dr. Anjali Niyogi, a physician, and Dr. Ashley Wennerstrom, a public health researcher and practitioner, have been collaborating successfully since 2014 to improve access to health care services for formerly incarcerated persons. Their residency was used to produce a manuscript… -
Robin Vander Scholar, 2017, Louisiana Dr. Robin Vander is a professor of English, African-American and Diaspora Studies, and Performance Studies at Xavier University. During her residency at A Studio in the Woods, Dr. Vander worked on a manuscript length book of images and essays juxtaposing… -
Cirecie A. West-Olatunji Scholar, 2017, Louisiana Focusing on the field of counselor education, Dr. West-Olatunji has initiated several clinical research projects that focus on culture-centered community collaborations designed to address issues rooted in systemic oppression, such as transgenerational trauma and traumatic stress. Dr. West-Olatunji’s residency afforded… -
Matthew Escarra Scholar, 2017, Louisiana An assistant professor in engineering physics, Matthew Escarra used his residency to create a proposal for the NSF CAREER Award, the biggest young investigator award for junior scientists and engineers. Matthew Escarra received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Princeton… -
Marcello Canuto Scholar, 2017, Louisiana All anthropologists, Rodning, Canuto, Murakami, and Nesbitt engaged in a weeklong collaborative retreat at A Studio in the Woods to explore and exchange ideas about the archaeology of monuments within cultural landscapes in the ancient Americas. Marcello A. Canuto is… -
Tatsuya Murakami Scholar, 2017, Louisiana All anthropologists, Rodning, Canuto, Murakami, and Nesbitt engaged in a weeklong collaborative retreat at A Studio in the Woods to explore and exchange ideas about the archaeology of monuments within cultural landscapes in the ancient Americas. Dr. Murakami received his… -
Jason Nesbitt Scholar, 2017, Louisiana All anthropologists, Rodning, Canuto, Murakami, and Nesbitt engaged in a weeklong collaborative retreat at A Studio in the Woods to explore and exchange ideas about the archaeology of monuments within cultural landscapes in the ancient Americas. Jason Nesbitt’s fields of… -
Ashley Wennerstrom Scholar, 2017, Louisiana Dr. Anjali Niyogi, a physician, and Dr. Ashley Wennerstrom, a public health researcher and practitioner, have been collaborating successfully since 2014 to improve access to health care services for formerly incarcerated persons. Their residency was used to produce a manuscript… -
MarkAlain Dery Scholar, 2016, Louisiana MarkAlain Dery is a physician and the founder of the Tulane T Cell Clinic who places compassion in the highest category of his professional duties. Dr. Dery used his residency to compile a collection of stories from his life and… -
Jocelyn Horner Scholar, 2016, Louisiana Jocelyn Horner studies the relationship between creative self-expression and positive development among young people. While in residence she completed data analysis for her dissertation, Digital storytelling as positive development: African American adolescent women exploring the politics and possibilities of personal… -
Sarah Gray Scholar, 2016, Louisiana Sarah Gray is a clinical psychologist with a focus on early childhood. Dr. Gray’s research examines the developmental consequences of early life adversity, with a specific focus on intergenerational processes. She takes a multilevel approach, integrating narrative, behavioral, and physiological… -
Lisa Settles Scholar, 2016, Louisiana The main focus of Dr. Lisa Settles’ clinical work is on the treatment of children under the age of six with a variety of emotional, relational, and developmental problems. Dr. Lisa Settles is the program director, lead psychologist, and grant… -
Andy Horowitz Scholar, 2015, Louisiana Andy Horowitz specializes in modern American political, cultural, and environmental history. He is writing a book which is under contract with Harvard University Press. He used his time at A Studio in the Woods to revise the manuscript and think… -
Samantha Lantz Scholar, 2015, Louisiana A behavioral ecologist, Samantha Lantz has been studying birds for over 10 years. While at A Studio in the Woods, she submitted the first chapter of her thesis for publication. The article came out in April 2016 in The Auk:… -
Kevin Morris Scholar, 2015, Louisiana Kevin Morris received his PhD in philosophy from Brown University in 2011. His research is primarily in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the history of analytic philosophy. At A Studio in the Woods in fall 2015, Kevin worked on… -
Workineh Kite Scholar, 2015, Louisiana Dr. Kite and Dr. Blair used their scholarly retreat to analyze immunological data from studies on the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) which has implications for treatment of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). -
Grant McCall Scholar, 2015, Louisiana Dr. McCall and Dr. Townsend convened a two-day symposium at A Studio in the Woods bringing together scholars from the fields of philosophy and anthropology to discuss the some of the shared concerns of both fields; especially those having to… -
Mary Townsend Scholar, 2015, Louisiana Dr. McCall and Dr. Townsend convened a two-day symposium at A Studio in the Woods bringing together scholars from the fields of philosophy and anthropology to discuss the some of the shared concerns of both fields; especially those having to… -
Robert Blair Scholar, 2015, Louisiana Dr. Kite and Dr. Blair used their scholarly retreat to analyze immunological data from studies on the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) which has implications for treatment of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Dr. Blair is an Assistant professor and veterinary… -
Shivaprasad Adireddy Scholar, 2014, Louisiana As a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Dr. Adireddy used his residency to finish writing a manuscript entitled Flexible Energy Storage Devices Based on Polymer-Dielectric Nanocomposites. -
Catherine Burnette Scholar, 2014, Louisiana An assistant professor in the School of Social Work, Dr. Burnette’s research focuses on health disparities related to Indigenous Peoples. Data analysis conducted during her retreat enabled the identification of factors perpetuating violence and mental health disparities among American Indian… -
Thomas Mulligan Scholar, 2014, Louisiana A philosopher, Thomas Mulligan used his residency at A Studio in the Woods to continue work on his dissertation which sought to answer the question, “What is the role that merit should play when we choose our political leaders and… -
Apollo Nkwake Scholar, 2014, Louisiana Dr. Apollo Nkwake and Prof. Nathan Morrow both teach research methods and program evaluation at Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy. While in residence, they prepared workshop tools and case studies for the American Evaluation Association as well as a… -
Courtney N. Baker Scholar, 2014, Louisiana Courtney N. Baker is a clinical psychologist interested in systems-level interventions that promote the mental health and well-being of children and families. Dr. Baker utilized her time in residence to analyze data and draft an article reporting on the reliability… -
Teresa Cole Scholar, Visual Artist, 2014, Louisiana A professor of printmaking, Teresa Cole spent her time at A Studio in the Woods continuing work on her series Seamless Belonging, an exploration of identity and place, visualized through handmade paper works. Professor Teresa Cole holds the Ellsworth Woodward… -
Nathan Morrow Scholar, 2014, Louisiana Prof. Nathan Morrow and Dr. Apollo Nkwake both taught research methods and program evaluation at Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy. While in residence, they prepared workshop tools and case studies for the American Evaluation Association as well as a…