NARRATIVE RESEARCH GROUP · FELLOWS

The disciplines we practice are also ways of becoming.

NRG Fellows are practitioners and scholars, each with a distinct field of expertise, joined by a single question: how does identity develop through the work we do? Every Fellow turns that inquiry outward — extending their craft to support the development of others, in community and one person at a time.

Fellowships

Fellows extending NRG’s narrative identity research across disciplines.

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FELLOW · ARCHITECTURE & ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERIENCE

Chris Ryan

ArchitectProfessorClimberThird Places

Chris Ryan builds modern third places — venues for living rather than passing through. An architect, professor, and climber, his work and research explore how lived experience should inform the way architects build for purpose. He holds the multi-perspectivism that shepherding a genuine experience into the world demands: a space is finished only when the people who will inhabit it have been accounted for.

How lived experience teaches us to build for purpose.
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SENIOR FELLOW · NARRATIVE IDENTITY & LEADERSHIP STUDIES

Dr. Dennis Rebelo

Organizational SystemsOrienting IntelligenceNarrative IdentityLeadership

Dr. Dennis Rebelo works where identity meets organization. He studies the organizational context of identity — how systems can be designed and distributed to carry human activity systems, and how to do so while identity development keeps progressing rather than stalling under the weight of structure. His research into orienting intelligence and narrative identity development anchors that work.

Building systems that hold human activity — without holding identity still.