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My research interests concern the relationship between literature and historical trauma. I am interested in analyzing testimony, works of literature, and other pieces of cultural production to understand how communities collectively process displacement and neglect. Advised by Dr. Brent Cebul of the Department of History and supported by University Scholars, I am currently involved in an independent study to apply these techniques to communities displaced by “urban renewal,” a U.S. federal policy in the 1960-1970’s that destroyed neighborhoods in the name of urban revitalization. Outside of my research, I am the Vice President of the Government and Politics Association, a writer for the Penn Political Review, and a Nancy Rafetto Leach Sweeten Prize winner.

  • University Scholar
  • Research Advisee of Dr. Brent Cebul, Department of History, Summer 2020-Present
  • Research Assistant of Dr. Toni Bowers, Department of English, Summer 2019
Academic Major(s): English, Mathematics
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