Welcome to my blog post! My name is Jesse Leon and I’m a First-Gen POSSE Scholar for Bucknell’s Class of 2028. Starting in September of this year, working at the Griot Institute has allowed me, as a freshman, the opportunity… Read morePopular Music and Culture in the Caribbean
This semester I have been working on a Ghana archive for the Griot. The project aims to have two major parts, part one is an archive for the Bucknell in Ghana Program (BIG). Bucknell runs a semester study abroad program… Read moreBucknell in Ghana Project
The trees have wrung themselves bare, and their bark has charred under the arcane rays of global warmings’ sun. The fall tributes of our beloved town of Lewisburg, lay aflutter on the cold concrete. Many have lost their once vibrant… Read moreO’ Say Can you See… D-I-V-E-R-S-I-T-Y
Fresh to the grounds of our sweet bubble in Lewisburg, Benjamin Barson is quickly making a name for himself amongst Bucknell’s campus. Having joined Bucknell as an Assistant Professor of Music and Affiliated Faculty in Latin American Studies in August,… Read more A New Democracy under Benjamin Barson
The Antigua Sugar Mills project this semester continues the research work we did in Antigua this summer focusing on the enslaved people that work on the different plantations, including their day to day activities and how it shapes the country… Read moreThe Antigua Sugar Mills Project
Toni Morrison’s concept of rememory, first introduced in her novel Beloved, captures the influence of the past, both physical and in feeling, on the present. Morrison interacts with and utilizes the past in her writing to comment and reflect on… Read moreMorrison’s Re/Memory: A Material Recollection of a Collective Mental Landscape
