
Interdisciplinary collaboration is at the heart of the Abolition for All Time Humanities Lab, where we reconsider the meaning of abolition in the past, present, and future.
The Abolition Lab brings together a team of faculty, librarians, archivists, and students of all disciplines to transform the way we approach research and teaching in the humanities.
Grounded in a liberatory ethos of social justice, our work embraces an innovative reconceptualization of anthropology, art history and museum studies, business, classics, creative arts, education, film studies, English, history, modern languages, peace and justice studies, philosophy, and political science.
The Abolition Lab has four student lab assistants who help facilitate class projects, teach tutorials, and maintain the daily operations in the lab. Student lab assistants also have the opportunity to expand their own interests in Digital Humanities and technology.




Former Lab Assistants:
Kyra Kellogg 2023-2025
Josh Carlos 2023-2025
Selah Dow 2023-2024
Annemarie Christiansen 2023-2024
Mimi Schweitzer 2023
The Abolition Lab would not exist without the support of library staff at Seymour Library and the Archive and Special Collections. The Lab forms part of a growing network of library learning communities that is dedicated to expanding students’ access to creative tools and innovative methods.

Director of Seymour Library

Associate Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Collections

Assistant Librarian for Special
Collections and Archives

Makerspace and Science Technician
Jen Andrella
2022-2025 | Core Leadership, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities
Danielle Steen Fatkin
2022-2024 | Core Leadership, Former Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs
Abolition and the Arts
2022-2025 | Gregory Gilbert, Convener
2023-2025 | Alyssa Mathias,
2024-2025 | Ryan Tracy
2023-2025 | Jennifer Smith
2022-2025 | Deana Nichols
2023-2024 | Gonzalo Pinilla
2022-2023 | Barbara Tannert-Smith
2022-2023 | Rob Smith
Curricular Innovations
2024-2025 | Scott Dewitt, Convener
2022-2025 | Deirdre Dougherty
2024-2025 | Sami Seybold
2024-2025 | Moheb Zidan
2024-2025 | Sheryl Hinman
2022-2025 | Mary Lyons
2024-2025 | Michal Ran-Rubin
Dis)placed Voices: Stories from the Prairie
2024-2025 | Anne Thomason, Convener
2024-2025 | Duane Oldfield
2024-2025 | Chad Simpson
2024-2025 | Weihong Du
2024-2025 | Cyn Kitchen
2024-2025 | Michael Penn
2022-2025 | Leanne Trapedo Sims
Supporting Innovation in Classrooms at Knox
2023-2025 | Scott Harris, Co-convener
2023-2025 | Todd Heidt, Co-convener
2024-2025 | Mary Barr
2023-2025 | Jessa Dahl
2022-2025 | Hilary Lehmann
2024-2025 | Brandon Polite
2023-2025 | Mitchell Parks
2023-2025 | Tim Stedman
Open Educational Resources (OER)
2023-2025 | Fernando Gomez, Convener
2022-2025 | Andrew Civettini
2022-2025 | Judy Thorn
2024-2025 | Michael Gerten
3D Structure for Scientific Storytelling
2024-2025 | Nicholas Gidmark, Convener
2024-2025 | Esther Penick
2024-2025 | Heather Hoffmann
2024-2025 | Tom Clayton
2024-2025 | Mark Slabodnick
2024-2025 | Patricia Xi
2022-2025 | Katie Adelsberger
Inter-Institutional Partners
2022-2025 | Joan Ericson (Colorado College)
2022-2025 | Tamara Beauboeuf (Grinnell College)
2022-2025 | Jin Feng (Grinnell College)
2022-2025 | Ann Sherif (Oberlin College)
Towards an Abolitionist Model of Media Literacy
2022-2024 | Jonah Rubin, Convener
2022-2024 | Emily R. Anderson
2022-2024 | Rebecca Yowler
Reimagining the Humanities in the 21st Century
2023-2024 | Mitchell Parks, Convener
2023-2024 | Konrad Hamilton
2023-2024 | Magali Roy-Fequiere
Ethics in Healthcare Inequality in Rural America
2022-2024 | Judy Thorn, Convener
2022-2024 | Andrew Hertel
2022-2024 | Robin Ragan
Knowledge in Business Ethics
2022-2023 | Dan Wack, Convener
2022-2023 | Elizabeth Carlin Metz
2022-2023 | Jeff Gomer
2022-2023 | Jaime Spacco
A Liberatory Ethos: The Past, Present, and Future of Abolitionism in Galesburg
2022-2023 | Jennifer McCarthy-Foubert, Convener
2022-2023 | Deirdre Dougherty
2022-2023 | Cate Denial
2022-2023 | Hilary Lehmann
Abolition of Detention
2022-2023 | Thomas Bell, Convener
2022-2023 | Gina Franco
2022-2023 | Duane Oldfield