Letter from the Editor

I’m so proud to announce Compass’ Fall 2019 Issue. The papers we’ve published this year reflect all of the vibrant, interdisciplinary work that is happening within Gallatin. Our authors have spent time in the Brooklyn Museum Archives looking at textiles and on the beaches of Kaʻū, Hawai’i hunting for signposts of the Anthropocene. Authors like Boheng Zhang investigated pressing humanitarian concerns in her investigation of terminology of ethnic and religious minorities in China while Liam Pitt offered an analysis of the East Side Coast Resiliency Project. 

I commend all the hard work the editors and authors put into these projects after the past semester and I am wishing everyone a restful break. I am also excited to announce our first ever Winter publication for experimental forms coming January 2020! Keep your eye out.

Shanti Escalante-De Mattei

Editor-in-Chief

Fall 2019 Staff

Editor-in-Chief: Shanti Escalante-De Mattei: A Political Ecology of Plastiglomerate in Kaʻū, Hawai’i

Executive Editors: Tristan Donaldson: “Negotiating Muslim and Hui Identities” and Kayla Herrera-Daya 

Creative Editors: Julianna Bjorksten: “Cinematic Evidence of Forbidden Death” and Schyler Tullis

Managing Editor: Joseph Weigner 

Treasurer: Nosheen Hossain    

Social Media Manager: Liam Pitt: “Weaponizing Cosmopolitanism: The Trojan Horse of the 17th Century Indian Sub-Continent”   

Editorial Board                                                

Allison Argueta: “Negotiating Muslim and Hui Identities”

Tia Glista                 

Xixi Jiang       

Shae Lifson: “Weaponizing Cosmopolitanism: The Trojan Horse of the 17th Century Indian Sub-Continent”

Asia Lo Savio

Sarah Quintas

Elizabeth Ruehl

Adhithya Vijayathevar

Ben Weinger: “Constructing the Climate Change Aesthetic”

Caroline Reagan:”The Sociocultural Praxis of Dressing Jewish”; “Thomas Demand’s ‘Kitchen (2004)’, and the Modern Conceptual Protest”

Angie Tang: A Political Ecology of Plastiglomerate in Kaʻū, Hawai’i

Jules Talbot: “Cinematic Evidence of Forbidden Death”