Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...contributed to the content/ of this online presentation of the Prop Master exhibit. Gibbes Executive Director and Chief Curator Angela Mack conceived of the idea to contact Susan and Juan...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...already been on the subway system in Manhattan) had an unerring sense of direction. Faulkner never denied being southern, and he was among the first to acknowledge the existence of...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...Franco as Darl Bundren, 2013. Photograph by Alissa Whelan.© RabbitBandini Productions. Franco isn't Darl's only problem, though since the actor also directed and co-wrote (with Matt Rager) the project, I...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...They At project," Amistad's Director of Library and Reference Services, Chris Harter, says, "have placed the Center at the forefront of efforts to document and preserve materials that chronicle the...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR), a Pentecostal movement that has heavily influenced the Catholic Church in Haiti.5The Catholic Charismatic Renewal, a direct result of Catholic encounter with Protestant Pentecostalism dates...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...in the biographical narrative, but became resigned that there was no directing Ryan Gainey. He served up a vast body of knowledge via his commanding and often contradictory persona. In...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
...and British decisions to abolish the trans-Atlantic slave trade About David Brion Davis Dr. David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus and founder and Director Emeritus of the...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...whimsical, but it is also an epic comment on our condition of metamorphosis when humans persist in changing Earth's geologic direction: "Daddy could have turned into a tree or a...