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Welcome Lenders & Lender Fellows -- Event Slides
No full textA slide deck for the new members of the Lender Center for Social Justice
Considering Applying to the 2025-2027 Student Fellowship?
No full textA two-minute video where previous Lender Center fellows describe the work they conducted through the fellowship
The Stories We Told Ourselves: The American War on Terror Zine
No full textAn eight-panel zine about the American War on Terro
From Drawing to Architecture: Michelangelo’s (Anti)Architectural Methodology
No full textThis paper investigates Michelangelo Buonarroti’s unique approach to architecture through the lens of his drawing practice, arguing that his architectural methodology evolved as an extension—and at times a deliberate rejection—of Renaissance architectural conventions. Beginning from his assertion that “architecture is not my profession,” the study situates Michelangelo’s creative identity within his grounding in disegno, the Renaissance concept that framed drawing as an intellectual act of conception rather than mere representation. Through comparative analysis with Leonardo da Vinci, the research traces how Michelangelo adapted the iterative, investigative qualities of draw-ing into a sculptural and spatial process that defied the rational, arithmetic-based methods of his contemporaries. The methodology combines visual analysis of key drawings and built works—in-cluding the New Sacristy (1519–34) and the Laurentian Library (1524–59)—with his-torical and theoretical contextualization drawn from primary Renaissance sources and contemporary scholarship. The study examines Michelangelo’s iterative sketches, his anti-math-ematical design tendencies, and his treatment of architectural elements as sculptural forms, revealing an intuitive process grounded in experimentation rather than formal proportion. Findings indicate that Michelangelo’s architectural compositions were conceived as dynamic figures—spaces animated by tension, distortion, and expressive deformation. In the New Sacristy, architecture and sculpture merge into a unified spatial body, while in the Lauren-tian Library, modular repetition and exaggerated forms materialize a sculptural logic of space making. These practices represent Michelangelo’s redefinition of architecture as a perfor-mative and emotional art, aligning his buildings more closely with his painting and sculpture. Ultimately, Michelangelo’s “anti-architectural” stance anticipated the Mannerist de-parture from High Renaissance harmony, inaugurating a new understanding of architecture as an expressive extension of artistic invention. His methodology demonstrates how the act of drawing became not a preparation for architecture, but architecture itself in conceptual form
Dapper Dreams: Gucci and the American Hip Hop Scene, 1980s-1990s
No full textThis paper examines the relationship between Italian fashion and American hip hop culture during the late 1980s and early 1990s, with special attention to the Florentine brand Gucci. This project of-fers an overview that explores the respective histories of both the brand and genre to identify the con-gruencies that made Gucci a staple among hip hop artists and their audiences. Analysis draws from a variety of sources including articles, press materials, music videos, advertisements, and red carpet ap-pearances to tell the story of how Gucci became so visible in hip hop. A particular focus will be placed on Harlem designer Dapper Dan, whose work popularized Gucci amongst members of the hip hop community
Preservice Teachers and Creativity: Beliefs, Experiences, and Intentions for Future Practice
No full textCreating a Decision-Making Curriculum for Students with and without Disabilities in Grades P-12
No full textAsymptotics of Fubini-Study Currents for Sequences of Line Bundles
Get PDFLet be a Kähler manifold, and be a sequence of line bundles on equipped with continuous hermitian metrics . Let be the Fubini-Study current and the equilibrium metric corresponding to the metric . Our goal is to generalize a theorem of Tian in Complex Geometry to a setting using arbitrary line bundles equipped with metrics with non-positive curvature. This amounts to finding sufficient conditions for , when appropriately scaled, to converge to in the sense of currents. To achieve this goal, we imply methods of Demailly and the Oshawa-Takegoshi Extension Theorem to bound a scaled potential for , and show that it converges in . After we establish sufficient conditions for the aforementioned convergence, we ask the question of when do and converge. To simplify our investigation, we restrict ourselves to the case where converges. We establish sufficient conditions for the convergences of using methods similar to our previous results. In this case, a construction of the limit is given, which is defined as a particular upper quasi-plurisubharmonic envelope. Lastly, we establish application of our results to special cases. In particular, we discuss the cases where is a tensor product of powers of line bundles, that is is of the form for some metrics and . This particular case is handled using the fact that the weights of are a sum of the weights of the metrics
Black Filmmaking as Archival Practice
Get PDFBlack Filmmaking as Archival Practice argues that cinema has offered Black cultural workers a generative space to creatively challenge the constraints of traditional archival repositories. I claim that Black filmmakers participate in a tradition of Black archival practice; they intervene in dominant collections and utilize their materials to create filmic counter-histories that negotiate the archive’s limits and attend to Black humanity, life, and memory. I engage with a diverse constellation of late twentieth and early-twenty-first century films that consider archives of Black social movement, abject images, enslavement and portraiture, Black queer and trans existence, and Black family photography. Through historical and textual analysis, the dissertation demonstrates how Black filmmakers creatively harness the medium to destabilize archival truth claims, contend with gaps in official records, and generate their own archival collections. The dissertation is bookended with personal reflections detailing my own experience learning and applying Black archival practice in Syracuse, NY. I discuss how my understanding of Black archival practice is informed by my work co-curating an exhibition in Bird Library’s Special Collections Research Center, A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s (2023). I show how the Turning the Lens Collective’s Black Family Photography in Syracuse digital collection of photographs and oral histories is created through a film-based photo-sharing methodology. The dissertation ultimately makes the case that Black filmmaker’s archival interventions are located inside a longer, undertheorized history of Black people negotiating cinema despite its history of devaluation. Additionally, it asserts that Black filmmakers present reparative and disruptive possibilities for modes of documenting, preserving, and curating material histories
The Media Coverage of the Israel and Gaza War: A Comparative Study of CNN and Al Jazeera
Get PDFThe Israel-Gaza War, which officially started on October 7, 2023, caused immense loss in the Middle East and attracted the international media\u27s eyes. This study discusses the media’s framing in its reporting on the Israel-Gaza War, particularly as disseminated on two prominent global news providers’ online websites: CNN and Al Jazeera. The research explores the differences and similarities in framing the war using framing theory. The study examines how these news outlets covered these current events online in a period ranging from October 7, 2023, to April 7, 2024, using quantitative content analysis. It investigates the main framing of news from the coverage to holistically capture the overall importance of the articles featuring news about the war. The findings indicate CNN predominantly employs conflict frames with a pro-Israel perspective, while Al Jazeera frequently uses human interest and morality frames from a pro-Palestinian standpoint. Both outlets similarly and infrequently use economic frames. The research findings will contribute to the general debate on media accountability and digital platform influence on the public perception of global wars. This study explores these underlying trends to enhance media literacy while recommending how to improve objectivity and the quality of war reporting