The Research Defense: Experiencing a Pandemic While Researching One
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The Research Defense: Experiencing a Pandemic While Researching One
This post is part of a series focused on highlighting outstanding defense videos from the graduating class of fall 2022. Each post features a brief interview with the student about their experience in the MA program and includes their research defense video.
Digital Projects Showcase: Mapping Murder
Blog post by Monica Boyd, PhD, Humanities Lab
During the nineteenth century, an increasing number of cases were reported in Britain in which the murdered victim was decapitated and dismembered. I’ve identified nineteen through searching through multiple historical newspaper databases. Of those nineteen, sixteen were women or young girls, ranging in age from 7 to 55.
JOTPY Has Diverse Oral Histories For Pandemic Research
Blog post by Jason Inskeep
During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a constant stream of information barraged humans with alarming news, death statistics, and polarizing political stances. A wide variety of social media, forums, and video conferencing programs provided people an outlet.
Street Art in the Plague Years
Blog post by Monica Ruth
Shuttered businesses, deserted streets, and contagion among the people… elements of disarray and decay, signals and signs of the end of – or at least pause from – familiar economic and social patterns. These changes have revealed a wellspring, sparking and spawning of new life and advantageous growth in street art.
Fight or Die Trying – Indigenous Resilience and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Blog post by Robin Keagle
“Kimberly in Red” from Artist Nayan Lafond, A Journal of the Plague Year ArchiveGenocide, stolen lands, and broken promises. Indigenous Peoples have a long history of being silenced. Their voices are muted and are often missing from the archives.
“Kung Flu,” the Power of Words, and the Impact on AAPI Identity
Blog post by Kathryn Jue
Asian and Pacific Islanders are fighting two pandemics – COVID-19 and anti-Asian racism.[i] The rise of anti-Asian crimes is now a focal point in a pandemic year, but this is not something that came out of nowhere.[ii]
“Rural Voices” Pandemic Collection Shares Quiet Stories of Loss and Hope During COVID-19
Blog post by Clinton P. Roberts
As the nightly news rattled off statistical numbers, my grandmother sat quietly in her house, mourning a loss, unable to see her husband’s grave. Her daily visits to the cemetery marked an otherwise unbroken routine for over five years.