Taylor Dysart, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, probes modern science’s enthrallment with the powerful Amazonian intoxicant ayahuasca.

Africana Studies and History Ph.D. candidate Daniel Morales-Armstrong’s research considers whose voices and narratives prevail and whose are plagued by silences.

History Ph.D. candidate Brett Robert's research looks at a hurricane that killed thousands across the Caribbean and into Florida. His work explores how racial relationships shape the way people live and die within their environments.

Research by Francisco Díaz, Anthropology Ph.D. Candidate, shows that living Maya people actively participated in the excavation of their past.

Amina Youssef, Presidential Ph.D. fellow, studies glaciers to understand the cycling of elements through Earth’s waters, soils, and air in its coldest regions.