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.


Core Leadership

Michael Schneider

Dean and Provost of the College
PI for the Abolition for All Time Humanities grant

Ole Forsberg

Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs
Leads Faculty Development in the Abolition Lab

Jen Andrella

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities
Director of the Abolition Lab

Student Lab Assistants

Josh Carlos
Kyra Kellogg
Rez Peña
Ellie/Styx Anderson

Former Lab Assistants:


Kyra Kellogg 2023-2025
Josh Carlos 2023-2025
Selah Dow 2023-2024
Annemarie Christiansen 2023-2024
Mimi Schweitzer 2023

Affiliated Faculty and Staff

Anne Thomason
Director of Seymour Library
Laurie Sauer
Associate Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Collections
Joseph Taylor
Assistant Librarian for Special
Collections and Archives
Alex Fluegel
Makerspace and Science Technician

Former Faculty Lab Participants

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

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