securing rights

I drafted this blog post on the train back from my week of archival fieldwork in Springfield, IL, for my dissertation chapter about the pogrom against Black residents of East St. Louis, IL, in Ma...

https://danielesolomon.com/2021/08/09/reflections-on-a-week-of-archival-fieldwork-in-springfield-il/

Since achieving “PhD candidate” status, I’ve had the opportunity to deliver a few guest lectures about my work and related topics . There are no silver linings to the COVID-19 pandemic. But...

https://danielesolomon.com/2021/03/31/teaching-resources/

I defended my dissertation prospectus today! For the uninitiated, the prospectus defense is the dividing line between my status as a “PhD student” and a “PhD candidate.” The defense means...

https://danielesolomon.com/2020/11/16/phd-candidacy-and-my-dissertation-research-about-pogroms/

GitHub: https://github.com/danielesolomon/south_mpls_protests — The protests that followed the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a Black Minneapolis resident, by Minneapolis police officer Derek ...

https://danielesolomon.com/2020/06/18/the-language-of-the-unheard-protest-and-protest-violence-after-george-floyds-killing-in-minneapolis/

One of the central questions of contemporary Zimbabwean politics is whether the current regime led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa represents a clean departure from the violent 37-year rule of Ro...

https://danielesolomon.com/2019/03/19/mugabes-long-shadow-in-zimbabwe-some-statistical-evidence/