Summer Work Travels
View of the Hudson River from Kykuit
This summer has been very generous to me and my business, with a few exciting opportunities to travel for work.
In June, I had the chance to travel to San Francisco for the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History’s Queer History Conference at San Francisco State University. Check out the Conference Program here. I traveled with Indianapolis colleagues from the Indiana Historical Bureau and Indiana Humanities to deliver a joint session, “On the Margins of the Margins of the Circle City,” which explored an interesting time in the social history of this city - when Indianapolis was a red city in a blue state. I read a portion of a paper Dr. Paul Mullins and I wrote for the Indianapolis Belt Anthology, “Imagining Musical Place: Race, Heritage, and African American Musical Landscapes.”
At the end of June through the beginning of July, I stayed in the Marcel Breuer house in Tarrytown, New York, as part of the 2022 Pocantico Fellowship, a research fellowship awarded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. My proposal, “Stigmatized Land: Central State Hospital’s Unmarked Cemetery,” looks at the literature behind stigmatized land, sites of trauma, dark tourism, and toxic sites while considering Indianapolis case studies, particularly that of the unmarked but known graves at Central State Hospital’s cemetery section 1. I’ll be releasing more information and materials shortly. In the meantime, here’s the fellowship announcement.
