“(Dis)Locating the Sensual: Black Queer Placemaking in Brooklyn, New York” investigates the impact that gentrification has on Black queer subject formations and Black queer public culture. My research explores the interplay between social oppressions, the Black quotidian queer b…
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When the world goes dark and everything seems to fall apart beneath us, the arts have a way of lighting our path, bringing us back, closer to one another, making us stronger and more resilient for the next time the lights go out. 2020 is the year that the lights went out across …
Red Clay State Historic Park preserves and commemorates the last capital of the Cherokee Nation prior to removal, the Red Clay Council Ground. Since the forced removal, the land has ever since been contested ground. Whites quickly acquired it and turned what had been a Native Am…
Many studies have been completed on historical consciousness in museum visitors of all ages, however, the topic of collective historical consciousness as compared to the potential of a collective current identity in small, rural history museums lack the same exploration. The Kin…
House, Church, Cave examines the relationship between pluralism and placemaking in the context of a majority-Christian town in Upper Egypt. Coptic Christians, a religious minority in Egypt, have historically faced restrictions regarding how they can modify the places they inhabi…
This thesis examines the ways Indigenous migrants in Los Angeles (LA) have created places of life through the formation of farms and decentralized gardens. The South Central Farm (SCF) was one of the earliest examples of food sovereignty in LA led by Indigenous migrants. I condu…
Urban planning and placemaking are in part implemented through storytelling. What are the dominant and demotic or popular narratives of, in, and for placemaking during the regeneration process of urban villages recently and over the past decades in Shenzhen? What are the embedde…