Dubai is a city full of hope and energy. Rapidly rising out of the desert just a few decades ago, the city is an odd sensory mix: The dulcet sounds of the Muslim calls to prayer blend with your earbuds throughout the day. The spice souks smell of frankincense and rose hips with brightly coloredContinue reading “The Dubai World Expo: 2022”
Author Archives: keralovell
Teaching: GIF My Feedback
I can’t always get students to read my feedback, so this year I decided to try something different and include students in the process. I had students peer review their first paper. Afterwards I gave them a brief overview of my main feedback comments so they could go ahead and know up front the rangeContinue reading “Teaching: GIF My Feedback”
Dr. Kera N. Lovell
Quick Facts about me: I am an Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah’s Asia Campus in Incheon, South Korea where I teach courses on US history and global citizenship. I am currently working on my book project, titled The People’s Park: Work, the Body, and the Built Environment in Radical Postwar Placemaking. In the fallContinue reading “Dr. Kera N. Lovell”
Hawaiian Food Flag
As one component of the final project for my AMST 202 class at Honolulu Community College this semester, students were asked to create a food flag. And as I’ve mentioned in this past blog post, I love food flags! A flag is a symbol of national identity – we salute flags, we sing to flags,Continue reading “Hawaiian Food Flag”
Race, Gender, and the Promises and Perils of “Radical” Manifest Destiny
As an expansion of my dissertation, my book project titled, The People’s Park: Work, the Body, and the Environment in Radical Postwar Placemaking, traces the transnational People’s Park movement of insurgent park creation as a method of protest against urban renewal. Having conducted archival research across seven states, this work breaks ground by documenting more than fourContinue reading “Race, Gender, and the Promises and Perils of “Radical” Manifest Destiny”
Teaching
I have taught a variety of university-level interdisciplinary courses (undergraduate and graduate) across five universities, and am now an Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah’s Asia Campus in South Korea. In the fall of 2018 I began at UAC where I still teach courses on US history, the humanities, and global citizenship.Continue reading “Teaching”
Global Family Meal
This semester I taught an online graduate level course on American culture to a mixed nationality group – two students from the University of Hawaii studying abroad in Tongji, China, and four students from Tongji who are about to study abroad in Hawaii at UH next year. Food became a way for us to talkContinue reading “Global Family Meal”
Research Spotlight: Visualizing Chicago’s People’s Park in the Archives
Two weeks in the Special Collections at UIC’s Richard Daley Library as a Short-Term Travel Fellow resulted in significant finds for my research on illegal activist-created parks in the late-1960s and early-1970s. These parks emerged at the intersection of several political forces: anti-urban renewal activism, environmentalism, hippie utopian communalism, anti-colonial land sovereignty organizing, and racial self-determinationContinue reading “Research Spotlight: Visualizing Chicago’s People’s Park in the Archives”
Research Findings and Fellowships
For the most up-to-date list of grants and fellowships I have been awarded, see my list of Scholarships, Fellowships, and Awards. Additionally, you can read Press on these awards as well as how my work has reached broader academic and public audiences. Most recently I was awarded a research fellowship by the Graham Foundation for myContinue reading “Research Findings and Fellowships”
Inspiration: Mapping Chicago from Below
The history of cartography is often remembered as a legacy of white men. With “imperial eyes” (Pratt, 1992), cartographers granted power to largely northern white nation-states through borders and names with the stroke of a pen. From the age of exploration to mid-twentieth century redlining, maps have shaped people, places, histories, and our identities. Ultimately, maps visualizeContinue reading “Inspiration: Mapping Chicago from Below”
Kera Lovell, Ph.D. 