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Urban Coastal Archives: Visual Culture and the Land-Water Divide in Lagos – Ben Mendelsohn

Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville

Ben Mendelsohn is the 2018-2020 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. He earned his PhD in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University, where his dissertation combined written research with documentary video to examine the urban coastal geology of Lagos, Nigeria. His article, "Making the Urban Coast: A Geosocial Reading of

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Assembly for Action Conference 2019

Assembly for Action is a student-run community service leadership conference that pairs fifty Action Scholars with local non-profits  to create community service projects. Through five grants of $2,500 each, the winning “Action Plans” contribute to community development by empowering student leaders to improve the capacity of local non-profits so they can better serve Gainesville residents.