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Author Archives: Cherri Gann
Death Chamber, Cummins Prison, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Fifteen SMU students, faculty members and others will travel by bus through the Deep South Aug. 2-10 to visit the people and places involved in operating, reporting on and opposing the death penalty in America. The 10-day experience is designed “to expose people to the physical and emotional aspects affiliated with our country’s use of the death penalty, the majority of which is carried out in the states we’ll visit – Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and Texas,” says capital punishment expert/activist Rick Halperin, director of SMU’s Embrey Human Rights Program, the trip’s sponsor. Continue reading
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Tagged Dedman College, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Embrey Human Rights Program
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On Being an Anthropologist in the Era of Big Data
Last week before camp started I was speaking with the grandfather of one of our campers about my research and the Ph.D. program I am in. He told me that my analytic skills would be valuable when I finished because … Continue reading
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Not The Blog Post I Wanted To Write
This is not the blog post I wanted to write, nor the one I thought I would write when the summer began. But it is I think the most important one I will write for readers of this blog. I … Continue reading
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Creative Maladjustment Day
On Sunday July 16, the Hive hosted a day of free workshops led by friends and community members. Creative Maladjustment Day, as it’s called, is devoted to challenging oppressive systems and celebrating those ways we respond to them that … Continue reading
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Why this trip?
An update from law student Brenda B.: Most Americans have an opinion one way or another about the death penalty. But how much do we really know? During the summer after my first year of law school (now), I decided … Continue reading
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Shelter Scenes
Lex P. is a senior majoring in markets and culture. This summer she is interning at the Austin Street Center, in Dallas, which provides safe shelter for the homeless. Continue reading
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Tagged Dallas, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Texas
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Feet Are Gross
Feet are gross. I have never liked them, yet last week I found myself with some unhoused friends’ bare feet in my hands as part of one of Open Table Nashville’s foot clinics. At these outreach events Open Table staff and … Continue reading
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Writing in Los Angeles
I am at the half way point in my research, which means it is writing time. I am now in Los Angeles to visit various university libraries, the Huntington Library art collection and the J. Paul Getty Museum. An important … Continue reading
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Visiting 18th-Century French Art
Delanie L. is a graduate student studying art history. She was awarded a Maguire and Irby Family Foundation Public Service Fellowship for summer 2017 from the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility at SMU. She is spending the summer studying elements of morality and ethics depicted in 18th-century French art. Continue reading
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Tagged Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility at SMU, Europe, Graduate Studies, Maguire & Irby Family Foundation Public Service Summer Intern, Meadows School of the Arts
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Ethnicity and Identity, part one
Traveling as a non-Latina brown American from Lima to Quito to Bogotá over the past few days has made me think a lot about ethnicity and identity so here ya go: Meeting so many new people in a relatively short … Continue reading
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