Adele Hite joined the Ronin Institute as a Research Scholar in March, 2020. Her research statement began like this: “My starting point as a critical food studies scholar begins with the foundational questions, “Where do ideas about ‘healthy’ food and ‘eating right’ come from?” and “What social and structural work do these concepts perform?” My …
Read more “In memoriam: Research Scholar Adele Hite (1963-2022)”
By Research Scholar Emily Monosson, first published in the May 2022 issue of Kitsune Welcome! You’ve stumbled across the launch of the good ship Ronin Blog, the official blog of the Ronin Institute. Updates here will cover developments at the Ronin Institute, as well as topics of potential interest to independent scholars everywhere – or …
By Ronin Institute Research Scholar John LaRocco (Jave Harron) I’ve had the dubious honor of living in rough parts of the world, and speculative fiction helped me survive. As a researcher at the Ronin Institute, I do not have a conventional university as a safety net or resource to draw upon, so I turned to …
