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Every year, the Center designates an interdisciplinary theme as the basis of faculty research; recent themes include "The Non-Human Turn," "Anthropocene
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campus is also regularly selected, and occasional scholars from other institutions and independent scholars from privately funded post-doctoral and summer fellowship programs are also welcomed at the Center.
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from various departments and disciplines at UWM are chosen from a competitive selection process to be in residence at the Center for one full academic year. One fellow from another
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