I am honored to be an Indiana University Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellow for the 2025-2026 academic year. Through this fellowship, I’ll be developing a new project about the intertwined relationships among walking, vision, and sense of place. Learn more here.
Open Education Award
Liz Kryder-Reid, Audrey Ricke, and I have received the 2025 Open Education Award from IU Indianapolis for developing the open educational resource Teaching Toxic Heritage. It’s filled with activities that can be used in formal or informal learning environments. Teaching Toxic Heritage is a companion to Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice (Kryder-Reid and May, eds., Routledge, 2024), which is also published open access!
2023 Bantz Community Fellowship
My colleague Liz Kryder-Reid and I have been awarded the 2023 Bantz Community Fellowship from IUPUI for a project called “Indy Toxic Heritage: Pollution, Place, and Power.” This year, we’ll be partnering with the Kheprw Institute and Indy Parks and Recreation to create an exhibit and a series of public conversations that examine environmental harm and advocacy for justice as part of Indianapolis’s citywide heritage.
This project builds on years of previous work including our participation in the international Climates of Inequality project.