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Work-in-Progress talk with Priscilla Peña Ovalle, Cinema Studies, and 2025–26 OHC Faculty Research Fellow In the female-dominant profession of hair styling, women rarely achieve the same visibility as men—even in Hollywood. Using original interviews with hairstylists for performers like Prince and Beyoncé, I highlight the labor behind iconic pop performers on US television. Hair Moves […]
Work-in-Progress talk with Daniel Rosenberg, History, and 2025–26 OHC Faculty Research Fellow My project examines the graphite pencil as both historical artifact and contemporary technology. It explores how analog and digital technologies function as components of a shared communication environment, how the meaning and use of analog technology changes with the advent of the digital, […]
Work-in-Progress talk with Alejandro Marin, PhD candidate, Romance Languages , and 2025–26 OHC Dissertation Fellow Migration today is often framed as crisis, but literature reveals it as a site of creativity and resistance. Contemporary novels from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Equatorial Guinea portray movement across borders as an opportunity to forge new communities and […]
Work-in-Progress talk with Jessica M. Johnson, PhD candidate, History of Art and Architecture, and 2025–26 OHC Dissertation Fellow During the Georgian era, a period noted for the transatlantic slave trade and the development of racial theory, an individual’s class could outweigh their race. My dissertation considers the utilization of portraiture by wealthy and influential Blacks […]
