In their responses to the 2015-2016 theme, ISI asked the fellows to consider the quadrant of concerns from the point of different disciplinary and creative perspectives. In addition to present anxieties over surveillance, fellows were challenged in the call for proposals to consider how secrecy, publicity, privacy, and security work today as well as how they have been constructed in the past. What, at this point, is secret, public, private, or secure? How might the four-term theme engage with secret histories, the market place, or science’s struggle to translate its private languages into public terms? How do the humanities deal with epistemologies of the hidden and the ethics of uncovering and revelation? Overall, the ISI seeks a set of searching and stimulating perspectives that shed light on what secrecy, publicity, privacy, and security have meant and can come to mean.

Nikolaos Artavanis​, Finance

Allison Butler, Communication

Jennifer Fronc, History

Piper Gaubatz, Geosciences

Jarice Hanson, Communication

Toussaint Losier​, Afro-American Studies

Gerome Miklau, Computer Science

TreaAndrea Russworm​, English

Daniel Sack, English

Jenny Vogel, Art

Nicholas Xenos, Political Science