Jonathan Karp

Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow

Jonathan Karp is a scholar of American Studies, media, and performance. His research asks how people improvise forms of media to order narratives of everyday life thrown into chaos by racial violence. His book project, Performances of Aftermath, investigates the 1917 East St. Louis massacre to show how collective racial violence becomes known: hidden in the everyday in a project of white supremacy or wrenched out by those fighting for redress. At Vanderbilt, Jonathan teaches courses in the Program in Culture, Advocacy, and Leadership, including "How to Skip Class" and "Riots and Rebellions."