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“The Queen’s Mark: Guns, Photography, and the Visual Abstraction of Precision,” Victorian Review 48:1 (Spring 2022).

“The Queen’s Mark: Guns, Photography, and the Visual Abstraction of Precision,” Victorian Review 48:1 (Spring 2022). Brief excerpt: When we think today about Victorian photography, certain categories spring to mind: portraits, mug shots, landscapes, metropolitan and colonial scenes—categories defined by similarities in form, style, or subject matter. To approach photographs Read more

By admin, 4 yearsJanuary 8, 2022 ago

Academic Awards and Research Fellowships

Creative Campus Initiative Award

In December 2021, I received a $3,600 award from the Creative Campus Initiative (CCI) committee to support two artists engaging with a new course to be offered soon. Titled, “Reenacting Justice: Documentary Theater Workshop on U.S. Guns and Gun Violence,” the course will be co-hosted by the Theater Department and co-taught Read more

By admin, 4 yearsJanuary 8, 2022 ago

Firearms Technology, Law, and Culture

Introduction to Guns & Society

This course and lab course will create a research and teaching network across academic divisions, foster individual student work, and engage faculty, local Middletown and New England resources including libraries and museums.

By admin, 4 yearsDecember 29, 2021 ago

Articles

“Guns, Germs, and Public History: A Conversation with Jennifer Tucker,” Interview by David Serlin, in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 57 (1) Special Issue: Going Public: Mobilizing, Materializing, and Contesting Social Science History, ed. Alexandra Rutherford (Winter 2021).

“Guns, Germs, and Public History: A Conversation with Jennifer Tucker,” Interview by David Serlin, in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 57 (1) Special Issue: Going Public: Mobilizing, Materializing, and Contesting Social Science History, ed. Alexandra Rutherford (Winter 2021).[Published online on July 7, 2020] [Free to read at Read more

By admin, 4 yearsDecember 8, 2021 ago

Firearms Technology, Law, and Culture

The Conversation: Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ Lays Bare the Bizarre Role of Guns in American Culture

Long before the numbing regularity of school shootings, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and the current Supreme Court debate over whether to further relax gun laws, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was sounding the alarm about the role of guns in American culture. Sondheim, who died on Nov. 26, 2021, had Read more

By admin, 4 yearsDecember 7, 2021 ago

Firearms Technology, Law, and Culture

The Conversation: Why Are Medieval Weapons Laws at the Center of a US Supreme Court Case?

In the opening scene of “The Last Duel,” the new film set in 14th-century France, a herald announces the rules for conduct at a tournament to the death. He declares that no members of the public – whatever their social background – are allowed to bring weapons to the event. Read more

By admin, 4 yearsNovember 5, 2021 ago

Firearms Technology, Law, and Culture

Panelist on Quantifying the Lethality of Firearms in Historical Terms, Oct. 21, 2021.

On October 21, 2021, I was a panelist at a symposium on “The 2nd Amendment at the Supreme Court” hosted by the UC Davis School of Law. I presented a paper that called for using a common metric for assessing the lethality of firearms in historical times, developed by Colonel Read more

By admin, 4 yearsOctober 21, 2021 ago

Firearms Technology, Law, and Culture

CNN Opinion: Now that guns can kill hundreds in minutes, Supreme Court should rethink the rights question

As the U.S. Supreme Court considers a case that may result in vastly expanded rights to carry firearms in public, I argue in this op-ed that we need a “common vocabulary and a shared metric for quantifying the lethality of firearms in historical terms when approaching Second Amendment policy and Read more

By admin, 4 yearsOctober 20, 2021 ago

Firearms Technology, Law, and Culture

The Washington Post: How the NRA Hijacked History

Amid renewed national debate over gun control, I write in The Washington Post about how concerted advocacy from groups such as the National Rifle Association has popularized a new interpretation of American history to fit a modern gun rights narrative, threatening to lead the Supreme Court further astray as it Read more

By admin, 6 yearsSeptember 9, 2019 ago

Firearms Technology, Law, and Culture

Wyoming Public Media: Renovated Firearms Museum Wants to Add Context to Gun History

I was interviewed on Wyoming Public Media about the opening of the newly renovated Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, which tells the story of the role of firearms in American culture. I was among the academic historians enlisted by the museum to provide important Read more

By admin, 6 yearsJune 28, 2019 ago