Looking at the Speculum, 2018 - Editor

The current design of the vaginal speculum was developed by American physician J. Marion Sims in the 1840s. Sims conducted his medical experiments on enslaved women, some of whom endured up to 30 surgeries without anesthesia. This project investigates the clinical use and social implications, pasts, histories, and futures of the speculum.

Under One Roof, 2019 - Editor

What makes a space "queer" and another "Middle Eastern"? Do the people create the space as much as the space itself? These questions are raised in an oral history project documenting the relationship between two spaces held under one roof: Sayat-Nova, Chicago’s only Armenian restaurant, and Second Story, a gay bar that rests on the second floor above the restaurant.

Elaborating Waste, 2018 - Editor

This project brings together literary and social scientific analysis to explore how capitalist society values and re-values its own wasteful byproducts.

Coalesce: The Space Inside Repetition , 2019 - Editor

Patterns have captured the human imagination for centuries. Ripples in the clouds, coffee grounds, sand, and zebra stripes all exhibit clear ordering. All of them have a common mechanism that underlies their formation, as described by the theory of Turing patterns. But what about other patterns that seem more random?