Noah Kittner’s research focuses on planning for sustainable, resilient and equitable energy systems at multiple scales – from distributed mini-grids to municipal and regional electricity generation. His current projects range from modeling the role of energy storage in reaching California’s … Read more

Townsend Middleton is an associate professor of anthropology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a sociocultural anthropologist, he specializes in the political cultures of India. His work focuses broadly on questions of the state, power, politics … Read more

  Michael A. Figueroa is an assistant professor of music at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is an ethnomusicologist who specializes in music and politics in the modern Middle East and its diasporas. The first phase … Read more

Brigitte Seim is an assistant professor of public policy at The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a CURS Faculty Fellow. Seim is a scholar of comparative politics, focusing on the political economy of development. Her research examines the relationship … Read more