Travel & public life
History moves through people and place.
A visual field journal of scholarship in motion—from study abroad and civic landmarks to community celebrations, public memory, and interdisciplinary exchange.
A living visual archive
The work leaves the reading room.
Travel, public gatherings, and community encounters reveal how history is carried: through landscape, music, monuments, fellowship, teaching, and the stories people choose to preserve. This growing collection follows those connections as they unfold.
Photo gallery
Field notes in photographs.
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Community encounter · Cuba
Learning in community
A Purdue study-abroad gathering shaped by exchange, shared experience, and learning beyond the classroom.Historical landscape · Cuba
History in public space
Monuments and streets become part of the archive when scholarship meets place.Street life · Cuba
Learning through the city
The study-abroad group pauses along a street shaped by art, movement, conversation, and daily life.Mobility & memory · Cuba
Routes through the everyday
Classic cars, public streets, and the rhythms of movement reveal history as part of ordinary experience.Revolutionary iconography · Cuba
Image, memory, and revolution
A streetside portrait of Che Guevara shows how political memory is reproduced through public art and everyday materials.Shared table · Cuba
Conversation beyond the classroom
A shared meal becomes part of the learning: time to reflect, build relationships, and exchange perspectives.Public memory · Idlewild
Music, memory, and community
Idlewild Music Festival highlights from 2009 document culture, performance, preservation, and collective celebration.Interdisciplinary exchange · Purdue
Scholarship in conversation
AI Frontiers 2025 brought researchers and public thinkers together in West Lafayette, Indiana.Living tradition · Idlewild
The archive is also alive
The 2026 Idlewild Fourth of July Parade carries local history through celebration, storytelling, and community participation.Civic memory · Chicago
At the Obama Presidential Center
A visit connecting public history, civic leadership, cultural memory, and the meaning of place.Public history · Indianapolis
Garveyism in Indiana
With Steven Golden, president of the Kingston UNIA division, at the 2026 Juneteenth celebration recognizing Garveyism in Indiana.The journey continues
More field notes will be added over time.
The photographs collected here extend the scholarship through lived experience—connecting Black place-making, internationalism, public history, civic memory, and belonging.
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