Making People Into Ghosts: Reconstructing the Legacy of J.G.M. Ramsey

This 2023 term project focuses on the life and legacy of an influential Knoxville slave owner. Find the original ArcGIS site here. This presentation is centered around spectral imaginings of multifaceted personae associated with the broader concept of Confederate memory. The gallery's primary subject, Dr. J.G.M. Ramsey, embodies many of the themes and rhetorical tools of this ideologically constructive project.

UT Greenhouse Spring 2023

This collection focuses on species held within the Hesler Biology Greenhouses operated by the University of Tennessee Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. More information about the greenhouses may be found here. While botany and specifically plant taxonomy are well outside of my area of expertise, I have made an effort to identify the species and/or genus of each of the specimens photographed. 

Knox County Parks and Recreation Adventure Guide

This project was written, illustrated, and drafted for Knox County Parks and Recreation, the original publication of which may be accessed here. It takes the form of an interactive guide for elementary-aged children beginning to engage in a curious exploration of public natural spaces. It is reproduced here with permission of KCPR staff.

Reelfoot Lake State Park

I have lived at various points of my life on the shore of Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee. This photo set, primarily sourced from the Grassy Island Natural Area in the Walnut Log community, showcases the summertime greenery of the state and federally protected wetlands associated with the largest natural lake in the state of Tennessee.

Photographing Memory: A Visual Exploration of the Past

This photo essay was created as a companion to my Master's thesis, an ethnographic study on the relationship between kinship concepts and social memory of ancestral racial violence among White old-stock families in a rural community in West Tennessee. These photos were taken during my field work, and are collected here to provide further depth to my depiction of this community as a physical and cultural space, and to serve as a venue in which to expand on certain ideas which did not find their way into the finished thesis.