Shahzeen Attari
Shahzeen Attari is a professor at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUB. She primarily works on human behavior and climate change solutions.
Her project explores how walking through the cities my father once called home—Mumbai and Dubai—reshapes my understandings of grief, memory, beauty, and joy.
Catherine Bowman
Catherine Bowman is Provost Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she teaches in the Creative Writing Program. This two-week walking and writing practice in northern Japan will retrace sections of Bashō's Narrow Road to the Deep North and the Michinoku Coastal Trail and will focus on ordinary encounters with places marked by memory, reconstruction, and change to explore how movement, distance, and lived experience shape perception, form, and attention.
Sydney W. Craig
Assistant Professor Sydney W Craig holds an MFA in Printmaking and serves as the Coordinator of the Foundations Studies Program at Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University Indianapolis. Her teaching and research include introducing curriculum internationalization to first-year art and design students through Virtual Global Exchange.
Through intentional, pedestrian journeys across the ruptured geological landscapes of the Great Lakes, this project transforms the scars of the earth into a somatic methodology for healing, ultimately culminating in a hybrid artist-book that serves as a guide for teaching-artists to reclaim their own fractured creative voices.
Reagan Furqueron
Reagan Furqueron is a visual artist and Associate Professor at IU Indianapolis’s Herron School of Art & Design whose multidisciplinary practice spans furniture, sculpture, and interior environments. Furqueron exhibits nationally, with work included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.
The Living Panorama: A Cabinet of American Curiosities is a traveling art and research project that reinterprets Zuber & Cie’s historic scenic wallpaper Views of North America (Vues d’Amérique du Nord, 1834) by visiting its depicted landscapes in real time and transforming those experiences into a tactile, three-dimensional cabinet that connects imagined history with present day reality.
Shannon Gayk
Shannon Gayk is Professor of English and a member of the Environmental Futures in the Arts and Humanities team. Over the past decade, she has been walking the medieval (and medievalizing) pilgrimage trails that crisscross Europe and is writing a book about the experience called, Saunter: Medieval Pilgrimages in the Modern World
Tatiana Saburova
Tatiana Saburova is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the Indiana University Bloomington. Her first book "Mythologies of the Russian Intellectual World: Socio-Cultural Representations of the Russian Intelligentsia in the Nineteenth Century" was published in 2005 (in Russian). The second book "A Generation of Revolutionaries: Nikolai Charushin and Russian Populism from the Great Reforms to Perestroika" was co-authored with Ben Eklof and published by Indiana U Press in 2017.
This summer her project “Walking Where the Maps Lead Us to “Unmap” Landscapes” retraces the routes of Russian imperial expeditions through the Altai and Tian Shan mountains to explore what maps leave unseen. Using walking as a form of inquiry, the project approaches landscape not as a passive backdrop or an object to be surveyed, but as a living participant shaped by human and more-than-human histories. Close observation, sensory experience, conversations, audio and video recordings, photographs, and material traces will come together in an alternative “natural archive” of selected sites in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. By weaving local stories with the mountains, rivers, glaciers and plants of these places, the project challenges imperial narratives of discovery and creates a richer, more intimate cartography—one that reconnects nature and history while restoring presence, complexity, and memory to landscapes once represented as empty.
Wendy A. Vogt
Wendy A. Vogt is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, Indianapolis. Her book, Lives in Transit: Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey, published in the California Series in Public Anthropology, chronicles the dangerous trajectories of Central American migrants crossing Mexico and is based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other transit sites. More recently, she has examined extra-continental and trans-Atlantic migrations between the Americas, Africa and Europe with fieldwork in Spain and the Mexico-Guatemala border. At IU Indianapolis, Dr. Vogt is the Director of the Masarachia Scholars Program and advisor to the Alliance for Immigrant Justice student organization. She is passionate about ethnographic research and has supported student-led research projects on the experiences of undocumented students, immigrant-owned businesses and student civic engagement.
This project uses ethnographic methods to examine walking as both a research approach and a form of political, social, and embodied practice in contemporary Mexico. Through participant observation and interviews during a public march honoring Mexico's disappeared, and a comparative study of migrant walking practices, the research explores how movement through urban space creates memory, solidarity, resistance, and possibilities for justice in contexts of violence, disappearance, and migration. Grounded in feminist and decolonial concepts of accompaniment and drawing on existing partnerships in Mexico, the project emphasizes relational engagement with families of the disappeared and migrants. By combining ethnographic research with photography and visual anthropology, the project aims to contribute to scholarship on mobilities, protest, and migration while highlighting how walking functions as both a strategy of survival and a powerful means of making marginalized experiences visible.