Emma Lundin, a U. of I. doctoral student in tourism, spent two months in a rainforest reserve in Sri Lanka shadowing forest guides. Lundin sought to understand how the guides interact with other-than-humans to create tourism experiences. Tourists’ encounters with life forms and organisms that flourish in these spaces can have long-lasting and devastating consequences, which makes it critical to study these interactions and understand tourism as more-than-human, Lundin argues.

Career exploration is time-consuming. For Heather Ennis, this period of discernment has been a slow, necessary evolution—one that has provided an opportunity for self-reflection about her graduate education in the humanities.