Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
Ryan Tucker Jones, History, and 2024–25 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. This interdisciplinary global history integrates the newest, exciting advances in whale science to reinterpret the last 500 years of human-cetacean relations. In the past decades, satellite tagging, drone footage, DNA analysis, and long-term behavioral studies have revealed whale lives in unprecedented detail. The newest […]
Ocean Howell, History and 2024–25 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. “Mapping Power” is a public facing website that enables users to explore historic maps of Portland, Oregon. Photographs and architectural renderings allow users to see the city as it is, as it was, but also as it might have been. A series of essays show […]
Brooke Burns, PhD candidate, Philosophy and 2024–25 OHC Dissertation Fellow. My dissertation clarifies how dignity, as an ethical principle, has historically animated anti-cruelty reform movements in prisons and zoos. To do so, I deploy a politically realist genealogy, which is a historical-philosophical method based on the premise that ethical principles are more likely to […]
