A case for library/archives boycott and divestment: ExLibris[Note: this is the text of my portion of the 2022 SAA panel, Responses to archival fragmentation inside and outside Palestine. You can…Jan 3Jan 3
The American Cemeteries in Jerusalem[Note: I wrote this early this year, 9 months before the Israeli assault on Gaza. It got quietly spiked by my shop. And that’s probably…Dec 22, 2023Dec 22, 2023
Systems in ignorance: subject knowledge against archival regimesThis is the text of an appearance at the University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies panel “Silenced histories: archives and…Oct 27, 2023Oct 27, 2023
Climate change and the political economy of archivesThis was my portion of a panel at this summer’s annual conference of the Society of American Archivists. You can listen to it here.Oct 4, 2023Oct 4, 2023
SanctuaryIn January 1982 Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson gathered to discern whether it would establish itself as a sanctuary for people…Jun 29, 2022Jun 29, 2022
The Jibrail Rural Fellowship Cooperative, 1943–1967A village school and farm used rabbits to fight communism, and changed agriculture in Northern LebanonSep 28, 2021Sep 28, 2021
The Black Manifesto’s Radical Year, 1969–1970“From April to December, all hell broke loose.”Feb 5, 2021Feb 5, 2021
Billy Sunday, Influenza Vector, 1918As Christians consider how to do church in the time of COVID-19, consider the evangelist who “touched 10,000 hands” in Providence RIMar 24, 2020Mar 24, 2020
