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  • Make the Historiography Madness Stop

    I’m so not feeling this paper anymore. It’s interesting but it’s not that interesting that I want to write about it. I guess that’s what I get for picking a topic I thought would be easy rather than fascinating. It’s about Japanese colonialism in Korea and Japanese-Korean relations. The notes in the picture are ones…

  • Creating the “Other” in Colonial Taiwan: Comparative Article Review

    Paul D. Barclay’s “Peddling Postcards and Selling Empire: Image Making in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule” and Leo Ching’s “Savage Construction and Civility Making: The Musha Incident and Aboriginal Representations in Colonial Taiwan” are both articles that deal with the creation and distribution of propaganda in and about Taiwan. Specifically they both focus on how…

  • Fruit Stand on Broadway & 171st St., Manhattan

  • Reading Response: Modernization in Egypt, 19th Century

    A reading response I wrote for a graduate class, based on four articles or selections about modernization in Egypt.   In “An Irrigated Empire: The View from Ottoman Fayyum,” Alan Mikhail uses agriculture in Fayyum and the maintenance of dikes and dams to make a larger argument about the balance of power in the Ottoman…

  • Jesus’ World

    A short essay I wrote for an undergraduate class called “Jesus the Jew” about a year ago.   Understanding who Jesus was is dependent on understanding the social context he was born into. What were the problems the Jewish people faced? What was the religious composition of the country? Was Jesus unique? Or were there…

  • Jesus in Modern Scholarship

    This is a paper I wrote for an undergraduate course about a year ago called “Jesus the Jew”.   In The Historical Figure of Jesus, E. P. Sanders presents a very detailed examination of the evidence available for Jesus’ life. Of the three sources used for this paper, it is the most complete and the…

  • A Cat Named Cheesecake

    We found this guy in an alley in the middle of last winter. He’s still kind of sick but the improvement in his health has been amazing.   Now, if we could just get him to stop eating like he’s still starving in the street, that would be awesome!

  • 181st Street in Manhattan – Washington Heights

    A few photos I took of a typical evening on 181st Street in Washington Heights a few days ago. We live on the edge of the Dominican area of Washington Heights. That might sound an odd thing to say, because Washington Heights has been mostly Dominican for decades, but that is slowly starting to change…

  • West Harlem Piers Last Tuesday

    There’s a Fairways grocery right next to this pier, so when we go there to shop we like to walk out on the pier and look around for a while. The view is amazing! The Fairways there is pretty cool too, by the way. They have a huge room that is completely refrigerated. It’s odd…

  • Rooster Graffiti on a Truck in Manhattan

    Another example of graffiti painted on the side of a truck. Also found in Manhattan. Graffiti by “Urbanimal”.