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Selected works
Topics & Themes Explored: American national identity, mythmaking, Columbian Exposition (1893), personification of Lady Columbia.
Hey, Columbia multimedia research project exploring the America 250 anniversary cycle by focusing on the poetic, linguistic, and artistic abstraction of the female personification of Columbia.
Through essays and visual media, this work shifts focus away from historical exploration figures to investigate how symbolic myths shape our contemporary sense of place.
Topics & Themes Explored: Pan-American identity,Waterway infrastructure, westward expansion, maritime culture, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, and landscape transitions.
A geographic and narrative study tracking the historical and cultural connections between the Potomac River, the C&O Canal, and the Ohio River network.
This text-driven exploration functions as a kinetic map, tracing how early transport corridors shaped regional identity and early American migration.
Topics & Themes Explored: Ancestral storytelling, cultural strategy, movement building, and the labor of community preservation.
A deep-dive publication exploring the modern application of ancestral storytelling roles, framing movement building as a vital cultural strategy.
The text documents the continuous internal and external practices required of a modern griot to preserve community integrity and support intentional spaces.
Topics & Themes Explored: Digital humanities, genealogical preservation, local sacred grounds, and sustainable ecology.
A preservation initiative dedicated to recovering, organizing, and digitizing the historical burial logs and spatial maps of a vital community landmark.
Parallel to the digital archive, the project chronicles sustainable groundskeeping and local flora identification to treat the landscape as a living historical record.
Topics & Themes Explored: Independent black journalism, grassroots archiving, legacy print media, and regional history.
A dedicated archival initiative to digitize and catalog a historic community newspaper originally published as an independent voice in the Ohio Valley.
This independent, artist-led project rescues local reporting and historical black journalism from physical decay, bridging past print media with contemporary storytelling.
Topics & Themes Explored: Public space, ritualized gathering, National Mall, Ohio Valley connections
A historical documentary project charting the genesis, architecture, and lasting cultural impact of the Black Family Reunion celebration.
The narrative traces the event’s trajectory from its origins on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to its expansion into Cincinnati, exploring how large-scale communal spaces are built and sustained.
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