The gloriously brilliant and delightful Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood have launched the Relational Poverty Network! And they are already working toward the first public meeting. The Relational Poverty Network welcomes abstracts for paper sessions during our public meeting taking place October 9-11, 2014 in Seattle,...
I'm writing a chapter in my dissertation about the role of the Rockefeller Foundation during the US occupation of Haiti (1915-1934). The RF was rather reluctant to engage with the US Navy in Haiti, and so brushed off several requests coming from the Brigade Commander's...
I just got in a fight with one of my closest friends. He posted a picture of a young Thai woman who was running to take a picture of her friend holding a flag in the protests that are ongoing in Bangkok. His caption read...
One of the more disturbing aspects of my research has been the plethora of death and trophy photos that i have accidentally stumbled upon. Some of them were un-cataloged photos in an obscure NARA box that was labeled something else entirely. Others have been from...
I've been thinking a lot about death, lately. Not in a morbid way. Katie Gillespie and i have been talking about this for a long time. Her work centers on the life course of bovines and their eventual (and almost always inevitable) death within an...