Henry Baldwin is a rising fourth-year undergraduate studying Environment, Geography, & Urbanization (CEGU), as well as Linguistics. His past research interests have primarily involved place-making narratives in Chicago and elsewhere, with a particular focus on historic preservation of vulnerable sites on the South and West Sides. He has previously worked with visual and literary archival sources, and is currently pursuing a BA Thesis in Urban Environmental Studies, focused on economic and discourse-based approaches to the problems of gentrification. During the Summer Quarter, he is serving as an assistant to Dr. Benjamin Morgan, honing previous archival and humanistic skills in the realm of speculative climate and energy fiction.

Henry Baldwin
Polsky Research Fellow, Summer 2025