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Moving Backwards and Forwards: Multidirectional Memory in Political Speech For this assignment, I chose a topic to research, then zeroed in on a single artifact in order to make a … Continue readingWriting Assignment #4

Cover Letter and Primary Source Analysis In this paper, I imagined that I was a historian looking to visit the Davidson College Archives and Special Collections. In my cover letter, … Continue readingWriting Assignment #3

Opposing Forces in Keith Hennessy’s Saliva In 1988, beneath a San Francisco freeway, Keith Hennessy transformed a concrete jungle into a Catholic church. In his performance piece Saliva, Hennessy drew … Continue readingPerformance 2

Defining Care: Activity vs. Identity In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things,  Raj Patel and Jason Moore outline seven things that have become cheap under capitalism. In … Continue readingHistorical Article 2

Reflection on Fred Tomaselli’s “Portrait of Laura, 1994” “Portrait of Laura, 1994” was displayed at the Alternative Medicine exhibit at Davison College in February 2026. This exhibit aimed to represent … Continue readingVisual Artwork

Movable Things: Expectations in the Law and Society In “Whiteness As Property,” Cheryl Harris explains how expectations have historically become property under US law: “Because the law recognized and protected … Continue readingLegal Article

The Spiral Hierarchy Michelle Alexander’s 2010 book The New Jim Crow reveals that racial progress in the US is not linear. In fact, it is much less impressive than many … Continue readingScholarly Article 2

For my Collaborative Something New, I worked with fellow Humes student Sarah Bobertz to create a zine. We wanted to inform people about the harmful racial and sexist caricatures that … Continue readingRevoicing the Caricature