Abolition Lab at Knox

05/28/2025

✨🫖🎉 What a successful close to our Digital Humani-teas + Creativi-tea workshop series!! Today we explored the meaning of craftivism through several arts and crafts stations. From rock painting to button making, the art of crafting can be a powerful tool for sharing knowledge, raising awareness, and building community💜

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this event!!

Missed creativi-tea? Visit our new creative humanities corner in the Abolition Lab for supplies, how-to guides, and inspiration! 🎨✨

01/15/2024

We are excited to announce our first round of workshops in the lab this winter, Digital Humani-teas!

These workshops are designed to be introductory and accessible to learners of all skill levels. Bring your laptop, hang out with a fun group of people, and learn some new skills!

And to warm the digital humani-teas spirit, a selection of coffee and tea will be provided☕️

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All Workshops are on Mondays @ 4pm in the Abolition Lab

-Jan 22 Content Management with Omeka by Jen Andrella

-Jan 29 Creating a WordPress Website by Jen Andrella

-Feb 19 Digital Storytelling through Interactive Design by Jessa Dahl

-Feb 26 Interview Techniques for Podcasts and YouTube Series by Brandon Polite

Want more tea? Visit https://knoxabolitionlab.org

10/13/2023

This week’s developments in and around the lab: some lovely banners, soundproofing foam in the recording studio, and a photogrammetry light box!

Are you interested in using digital tools and technology for your work but don’t know how to get started? We’re here to help! Stay tuned for resources, workshops, and other updates on our website: knoxabolitionlab.org ✨

10/05/2023

On Tuesday we had Prof. Michael Penn’s Journalism 123 course visit the lab for a tutorial on podcasting and using Audacity to edit audio! Students will be producing five-minute episodes that explore topics in the news.

09/08/2023

✨Things are happening here✨ We are working hard to get the lab ready for fall! Stay tuned for more updates, events, and workshops!

05/25/2023

✨Project launch #2! ✨ We had the lab set up for “Midwestern Migrant Farmworkers,” an Omeka mapping project built by the students of Dr. Robin Ragan’s Spanish for Healthcare course. We had a great audience browsing students’ projects and asking questions about their work! Shout out to lab assistant Mimi Schweitzer for providing amazing support for this project!

"Midwestern Migrant Farmworkers" is a spatial study of migrant labor on farms across the Midwest. In this class project, students examined sources related to inspections, violations, citations, and other incidents on farms to uncover the lived experiences of migrant laborers in these spaces. Students then curated this data and documentary evidence into a public-facing website with an interactive map, supplemental information, attached media, and additional resources.

You can now visit the live website at: http://migrantfarmhealth.knoxabolitionlab.org/

05/23/2023

It’s project launch day🎉 today we celebrated the public launch of Liberatory Social Studies, a digital project developed by Dr. Jennifer McCarthy Foubert’s EDUC 316 class. Special thanks to Kyra Kellogg, the undergraduate lab assistant for this class!

You can now visit the live website: https://liberatorysocialstudies.knoxabolitionlab.org/

On Thursday we have another launch event for SPAN 220’s “Midwestern Migrant Farmworkers” in the Abolition Lab (Seymour Library) from 1:30-2:30pm. Please consider joining us! 🎉

05/18/2023

End of year pottery painting party, or as well like to call it, a “parttery.” What an awesome year with the best lab staff! 🥳🥳

05/16/2023

📢 we have two upcoming Abolition Lab digital project launch events! Students and faculty are welcome to attend and browse the amazing digital work from our students this term. These are casual and celebratory events, so please stop by if you’re available! 🎉

02/07/2023

📢🌟The Abolition Lab is pleased to announce the launch of a new library guide filled with readings and resources from our “Towards an Abolitionist Model of Media Literacy” team!

Find the libguide here: https://knox.libguides.com/abolitionistMediaLit

From Dr. Jonah Rubin on Twitter: “The first version of our "Abolitionist Media Literacy" Library Guide is now live, a project of the
Abolition Lab "Towards an Abolitionist Media Lit Project," co-led by Roya Biggie and me, with Becca Yowler, Mary Lyons, and Emily Anderson.

This is very much a beta launch, the beginnings of a project that tries to bring an abolitionist lens to media literacy, push beyond narrow fact checking and toward building capacity to recognize and respond to racism in news reporting and broader media. Still much to do.

This beta version gathers together existing resources on media lit & abolitionism. We found many great resources out there. There are also a lot that (we think) don't yet exist. We're hoping to address that as this LibGuide grows & evolves moving forward. It is far from complete.

If you know of anything that is not included in the LIbGuide but should be, please get in touch. We have lots of work to do to realize this vision. And stay tuned for future posts on how we seek to bring together abolitionism and media literacy, as well as future directions.”

A project of the Abolition for All Time Humanities Lab

01/12/2023

12/02/2022

Hello, Facebook! The "Abolition for All Time" Humanities Lab at Knox College is an initiative supported my the Andrew Mellon Foundation to reinvigorate the humanities through innovative, collaborative, and digital approaches. Follow us for lab updates, events, and resources!

https://www.knox.edu/news/abolition-for-all-time-humanities-lab-to-be-funded-by-mellon-grant

Knox College awarded a $1.2 million grant to promote curricular innovation in the humanities through renewed study of the College’s history and legacy.