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America’s Opioid Crisis: Pills, Fentanyl, and a Public Health Epidemic
Full text linkThe opioid epidemic is one of the greatest public health burdens plaguing the United States, accounting for almost 75,000 deaths in 2018 alone. My project aimed to educate the general public about the origins of prescription opioid addiction and the evolution of modern opiates, while outlining an increasingly accepted harm reduction approach to opioid abuse. The project narrative provides a broad overview of my project, beginning with the initial ideation phase, traversing through partnerships and planning, and culminating in a Facebook Livestream event. Peppered between project aims and email contacts, I describe where my curiosity led me and some of the lessons I learned as a Latham Fellow. Though the artifacts included on this page can be viewed in any order, I would recommend starting here. The Facebook Livestream and the coinciding PowerPoint presentation are posted. Three modes of the presentation are available: slide show, video, and audio. Each mode offers a different way to achieve my initial goal: to provide the greatest number of people with potentially life-saving information
Lincoln\u27s Confidant: The Life of Noah Brooks
Full text linkReview of: Lincoln’s Confidant: The Life of Noah Brooks, by Wayne C. Temple, edited by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis
Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern America: A Revolution on the Home Front
Full text linkReview of: Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern America: A Revolution on the Home Front, edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon
Germans in Illinois
Full text linkReview of: Germans in Illinois, by Miranda E. Wilkerson and Heather Richmond
Fabricated Muslim Identity, Female Agency, and Cultural Complicity: The Imperial Project of Emaré
No full textExtant in only one mid-fifteenth-century manuscript, the Middle English romance Emaré has nevertheless captivated modern scholars and readers. The majority of studies have focused on the text’s material culture, centred on the description of a luxurious cloth that takes up 10% of the poem. A recent global turn in medieval studies has consistently highlighted the role of medieval Europe in defining and supporting imperial projects, simultaneously challenging the Eurocentrism of medieval studies and the supposed neutrality of medieval European culture. This article brings Emaré into conversation with material culture and postcolonial critique to investigate the imperial politics of the text. Using assemblage theory, developed by Deleuze and Guattari, we argue that the cloth can be read as an assemblage, made up of components that can be understood individually and as part of a whole. The cloth as assemblage emphasises the connections between the Saracen woman who made the cloth and Emaré herself, imbricating Emaré into the cloth-assemblage. Yet, Emaré’s persistent separateness serves as a reminder of Emaré’s simultaneous position in yet another assemblage - that of Christian Empire. Emaré’s actions resignify the cloth and uphold the patrilineal project of empire. Ultimately, by reading the cloth as assemblage in Emaré, the complicity of white Christian women in support of Christian imperial power is made overt
Distaff as Weapon in the Margins of Two Late-Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Romance Manuscripts
No full textThe marginal art of two late-thirteenth-century Arthurian romance manuscripts from French-Flanders are rife with motifs depicting violent battles. One such motif is that of a mounted joust between a knight and a woman. The knight is weaponless, but the woman wields a distaff, a tool used to spin wool or flax, as a lance in order to penetrate the knight. By contextualizing this motif with the text of the Vulgate Arthur, as well as the socio-political moment within which the manuscripts were produced, this article seeks to investigate how its inclusion could direct certain interpretations of the narratives in accompanies