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KAIGC Faculty Fellow

KAIGC Faculty Fellows

About Ernesto Capello (2026-2027)

  • Background

    Ernesto Capello joined the Macalester faculty in 2008 and is Professor of Latin American History. He received his BA from Vassar College and his PhD from the University of Texas. Professor Capello’s teaching explores local and global identity, racial difference and power, and the relationship between arts, politics, and the state in Latin America. His scholarship emphasizes transnational imaginaries, urban history, visual culture, mountains, and the history of cartography.

    Hobbies include backgammon, British murder mysteries, and cooking pasta e ceci.
  • Current Projects

    At the KAIGC, he will be writing two chapters from his book project, Equator Imagined: Commemorating and Contesting Geodesic Science in the Andes, which focuses on commemoration of an 18th-century French mission to measure the curvature of the earth at the equator and its subsequent contestation by Indigenous Kichwa populations and allies.

    He hopes to help develop programming at Mac with community partners in Ecuador, exploring Indigenous ways of knowing.

About Morgan Adamson (2025-2026)

  • Background

    Morgan Adamson works at the intersections of non-fiction film and cultural studies. Grounded in archival research and collaboration, her practice animates hidden histories and infrastructures as a form of social engagement situated in place. Her recent award-winning documentary, Brutal Utopias (2023), explores the struggle to define social utopia through architecture and is currently streaming nationally through the Minnesota Experience program on PBS. She is the author of a book on political cinema, Enduring Images: A Future History of New Left Cinema, in addition to numerous scholarly and popular essays. She is Professor and Chair of Media and Cultural Studies at Macalester College.
  • Fellowship Highlights

    During her time as a KAIGC Faculty Fellow, Professor Adamson engaged the Macalester and Twin Cities community in the production of Forever and Forever and Forever, an experimental documentary film that follows communities in the East Metro as they come to terms with their own toxic legacy as the birthplace of forever chemicals. She gave a pre-International Roundtable talk Bonded Inheritance: Retelling the Story of Forever Chemical Contamination in the East Metro in October 2025 Professor Adamson also took members of the Macalester community on a toxic tour in East Metro in April 2026.

  • KAIGC Faculty Fellowship Application

    Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship and the Provost Office invite applications for a year-long fellowship opportunity in 2025-2026. Tenured faculty, pre-tenure faculty who have completed the third-year review and NTT faculty members are eligible to apply. One faculty fellow will be named each academic year; the fellow will be granted two course releases by the Provost’s Office during the fellowship year. The KAIGC Faculty Fellow is expected to implement a research, creative, or pedagogical project that supports KAIGC’s purpose and priorities, and reflect our values and approaches and Macalester’s Strategic Plan.

    Considering the impact of the two course releases on departmental offerings as well as on pre-tenured faculty’s progress towards the tenure review, applicants should consult with their department chairs and obtain a brief statement of support before applying.

    Outcomes of the project should include both significant efforts at dissemination of one’s own work and concrete benefits to Macalester and/or our community partners.

    Specifically, the KAIGC Faculty Fellow is expected to:

      • present at a conference, submit for publication, or share creative work through a
        performance or exhibition, acknowledging Macalester KAIGC’s support

      • create opportunities to engage with campus and/or community partners around their
        project

      • participate in the major events hosted by KAIGC such as International Roundtable, and

      • be in conversation with KAIGC’s leadership and staff, in order to learn about our work
        and be an effective and enthusiastic ambassador for KAIGC around campus and in the
        community.

    KAIGC looks forward to building sustained relationships with the faculty fellow through a year-long engagement. A 2/1 teaching load is highly recommended so that the fellow maintains an active presence on campus during the fellowship year.

    Application process:

      • A statement of interest (3-page maximum)

      • A 3-page abbreviated CV that highlights experience relevant to the proposed project

      • A brief statement of support from your department chair

      • For community-based research – local or global, a brief letter of support from community partners

    The applications will be reviewed by a committee composed of members of KAIGC leadership team and the Provost Leadership Team. We expect to notify applicants of our decision by January 31, 2025. Evaluation criteria:

      • The proposal succinctly addresses

      • Project goals and outcomes

      • Background (relevant literature or contextualization)

      • Project methods/methodology

      • Prior experiences and community/collegial support that demonstrate your ability
        to implement the project

      • How this project contributes to

      • KAIGC’s purpose and priorities, values and approach, and Macalester’s
        strategic plan that connects with KAIGC’s work (Click on the link to read
        more)

      • your department’s goals

      • your own professional development

      • Your plan to engage with KAIGC leadership and staff; opportunities to engage
        include

      • International Roundtable 2025 to be held on October 22-24.

      • monthly staff meetings

      • KAIGC leadership meetings

      • one-on-one meetings with KAIGC deans and associate deans, as well as
        directors of Community Engagement Center and Center for Study Away

      • other creative ideas are welcome, too!

      • Your plan to share research findings or processes (workshops, conversations,
        presentations, etc.)

      • Your plan to disseminate your work beyond Macalester

      • Demonstrated support of the applicant’s department

      • Demonstrated support from community partners if applicable