Martha Thorsland Baker Fellow Sanjula Rajat is a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Oregon. Their research draws from feminist, decolonial, anti-caste, and queer and trans studies perspectives. They are also a labor and community organizer, working at the theoretical and practical intersections of anti-imperialist, Marxist, and feminist politics. Their work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Feminist Formations, the APA Studies on Feminism and Philosophy, and the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. 

Tee A. Corinne Memorial Travel Fellow Louise Toth is a PhD candidate in gender studies at Université Bordeaux Montaigne (France). Their work focuses on collective and visual practices, especially within southern Oregon lesbian lands. In November 2024, they curated the exhibition “Country Lesbians” at Shmorévaz (Paris), along with an English republication of the book Country Lesbians, published in 1975 by the WomanShare collective. They are currently working on a French translation of the book. They also work as a research fellow and assistant curator for the Alix Cléo Roubaud association. They are a part of the Lesbian Lands Network – a collective of scholars, artists and journalists interested in the lesbian lands in the United States and in France – and Cultures et Images Lesbiennes – a French research group of beginner scholars interested in lesbian visual cultures.

Tee A. Corinne Memorial Travel Fellow Louise Trano is a master’s degree student in architecture in Paris. Her research focuses on the connections between architecture, utopias, and forms of collective and social organization. In this context, she is particularly interested in women’s and lesbian lands, a topic that intersects questions of space, feminist studies, and queer theory. Trano first encountered the history of lesbian lands about two years ago, and decided to dedicate her master’s thesis to exploring their relationship to land ownership, use, and territorial bonds. For this project, Trano conducted research at the UO Special Collections and spent extended periods on the lands throughout 2024 and 2025.

James Ingebretsen Fellow Austin Zinkle is a postdoctoral scholar affiliated with the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies at the University of Kentucky. He is the co-leader of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice-Kentucky Project at UK's J. David Rosenberg College of Law, a clinical project that researches and seeks redress in cold cases of racially motivated homicide in Jim Crow-era Kentucky. Dr. Zinkle holds a PhD in history from the University of Kentucky and is a historian of United States political history, with research interests in youth activism and youth culture. His current book project examines white supremacist and neo-Nazi youth as part of the larger White Power Movement in the United States during the twentieth century.

Brian Lanker Fellow Nadiya Nacorda is an artist, mother, educator and Taurus working with photography, video, and sound. Her work has been exhibited at Filter Photo in Chicago, Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, RISD's Red Eye Gallery in Providence, The Phoenix Art Museum, among others. She received her BFA in Photography & Film from VCU Arts and her MFA in Art Photography from Syracuse University. She was a '22/23 Post-MFA Fellow at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI and has taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor at VCUarts in Richmond, VA. 

Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow Sam Tegtmeyer is a PhD candidate in English literature at the University of Glasgow. His work explores how fantasy literature can inherit problematic ideological tropes, which he calls “maggots,” and how authors like Ursula K. Le Guin resist these inherited frameworks. Focusing on Le Guin’s Earthsea series, Tegtmeyer will come to SCUA to study drafts, notes, and illustrations in Le Guin’s archives in order to trace her deliberate efforts to challenge the genre’s dominant Anglo-Saxon, patriarchal traditions—particularly through her choice to center brown-skinned protagonists and her feminist turn in Tehanu. Tegtmeyer hopes that study of Le Guin’s own sketches will aid in developing an understanding of Earthsea as the author saw it and push back against the ways art, covers, and other depictions of the series so often whitewashes the world and its characters. Addressing the issue of whitewashing and other forms of hierarchical erasures and occlusions are central to Tegtmeyer’s research, which aims to uncover strategies that authors use to challenge and subvert Fantasy’s inherited ideological limitations.