ARchive, Method, Narrative

and ghost stories

Violence is poorly contained in the archive.

What are the afterlives of silenced pasts? What can we learn from the ways the violent past resists silence?

A person sitting on the floor with candles in front of them, a Ouija board, on a carpeted floor in a dimly lit room.

The Resistance Archive of ghosts

My current monograph project is rooted in my doctoral dissertation, “The Resistance Archive of Ghosts.”

In the Tall Grass West of Town: Racial Violence in Denton County During the Rise of the Second Ku Klux Klan