Hello! I go by either Ellie or Styx, whichever you remember, honestly. I use they/them pronouns and am a junior, planning on graduating Spring of 2026. I’m majoring in classics, with a double minor in art history and archaeology (though not officially archaeology yet). I’m really interested in very specific…

Hi all, My name is Kyra Kellogg, I am one of our undergraduate lab assistants here in the Abolition Lab for All Time Humanities Lab. I’ve been working with the Lab since last winter when undergraduates were first brought on the team. Thus, I feel as though my college experience…

Hi there! My name is Angelica DeBenedictis (they/them), I’m a senior at Knox majoring in Anthropology & Sociology with a double minor in Religious Studies and Peace & Justice Studies. I started researching and discussing media literacy with Professor Jonah Rubin in October 2022. During that initial research, two major…

Hey Pals! My name is Josh, and I am very excited to join the Abolition Lab team as an assistant this year! I am in my third year at Knox, and I am from Centennial, Colorado. I am a history major with a minor in Peace & Justice Studies. On…

In Fall 2023, the Prison Education working group’s goal is to expand the program that Dr. Leanne Trapedo-Sims has already started – teaching in the Hill Correctional Center. I am specifically working on an African American Literature course focused on Afrofuturism. The choice of material is designful — I believe…

Our team is new to the Abolition for All Time Humanities Lab this year, but already we have had a number of wide-ranging discussions about how we can reimagine the humanities for the twenty-first century. You might raise an eyebrow: “reimagining the humanities” is a very broad topic. And it…

By Gregory Gilbert As part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant “Abolition for All Time” at Knox College, I am currently serving as the convenor for the Abolition and the Arts lab. Over the past year, I have had the rewarding experience of working with a group of dedicated…

Deirdre Mayer Dougherty, Assistant Professor of Educational Studies, Knox College I first met Abraham Lincoln when I was 3. We met yearly until I was 8 and my mom snapped a picture, never one to let a photo opportunity go untaken. He was rather large and sort of imposing, but…

Abolition by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free.org As the program coordinator of the Abolition Lab, I have the fantastic job of getting to see and reflect upon the innovative work of my colleagues in the lab. In the first year of the lab, I learned a lot about abolition in historical perspective….

Although I am late on assessing this than my colleagues, I still thought it was valuable to express how I felt about these online exhibits. The topic of online exhibits always causes me to hesitate. As an educator, I always had students pull up some random website telling them facts…

The digital humanities can be a difficult thing to navigate, as either a learner or a creator. And often scholars must concede one thing to employ another. For example the “Mining the Dispatch” website created by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. This website is easy to…

As a student, we often used digital scholarship in class without even realizing it. These tools were utilized to engage students in new manners of education that widely differed from the memorization and lecturing of prior years. I personally found it highly engaging and beneficial; information being presented in generally…

So far with the Abolition Lab, I’ve spent a good deal of time looking at digital humanities projects. Moving forward, in helping others and creating my own digital projects, I’ve been thinking about audience in a new digital space. As people in the humanities, we hold a position of power,…

The Knox College Abolition Lab’s “Towards an Abolitionist Approach to Media Literacy” team recently launched the first version of our Library Guide, laying out the resources and approaches we see as fundamental to critical activist engagements with media. We’ll have much more to say about the Library Guide and why…

Hello! My name is Selah Dow, I’m a sophomore here at Knox. I am double major in secondary education and history. I am currently employed in both the Abolition Lab and the Student Newspaper, TKS, here at Knox. I am involved in several clubs and extracurriculars, including Enharmonic Fire (a…