Statue of Liberty National Monument, maps /

In text: In 1986 the Statue will be 100 years old.

Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island /

Statue of Liberty view is from ground level and Ellis Island views are aerial views.

Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island /

Statue of Liberty view is from ground level and Ellis Island views are aerial views.

Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island /

Statue of Liberty view is from ground level and Ellis Island views are oblique aerial views.

Statue de la Liberté, Monument national, New York /

Scale ca. 1:31,680; 1 in. equals about 0.5 mile.

CIL 3.7234 – Inscribed base for equestrian (?) statue for L. Cornelius Sulla

Photographs and notes by A.E. Gordon

CIL 3.7235 – Inscribed statue base for L. Cornelius Sulla

Photograph and notes by A.E. Gordon

CIL 3.7237 – Fragments of an inscribed statue base for L. Licinius Lucullus

Squeeze, photographs and notes by A.E. Gordon

CIL 3.7238 – Inscribed statue base for Q. Pompeius Rufus

Photograph and notes by A.E. Gordon

CIL 3.7240 – Bilingual inscribed statue base for A. Terentius Varro

Photograph and notes by A.E. Gordon

Reclaiming the Fall Zone: Mediating Physical and Cultural Exchange in Richmond, VA

This thesis will address cultural and physical place reclamation, at the ambiguous intersection of ‘city’ and nature.’ By creating a juxtaposed sequence of multi-scalar interventions, which challenge the conventional boundaries of architecture, and landscape architecture; in order to make commonplace a new dynamic threshold condition in Richmond, Virginia. At its core, this thesis is an attempt at place-making on a site which has become ‘no place.’ This concept will be manifest via a landscape park on Mayo Island in Richmond, anchored by a community retreat center, and architectural follies along a constructed path. The interventions will coincide with value of place in historical Richmond: an integrated, socially desegregated waterfront hinge; a social nexus of inherent change, at the point which the river itself changes at the fall line.

The Ethics of Eating Animals in Tudor and Stuart Theaters

A pressing challenge for the study of animal ethics in early modern literature is the very breadth of the category “animal,” which occludes the distinct ecological and economic roles of different species. Understanding the significance of deer to a hunter as distinct from the meaning of swine for a London pork vendor requires a historical investigation into humans’ ecological and cultural relationships with individual animals. For the constituents of England’s agricultural networks – shepherds, butchers, fishwives, eaters at tables high and low – animals matter differently. While recent scholarship on food and animal ethics often emphasizes ecological reciprocation, I insist that this mutualism is always out of balance, both across and within species lines. Focusing on drama by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and the anonymous authors of late medieval biblical plays, my research investigates how sixteenth-century theaters use food animals to mediate and negotiate the complexities of a changing meat economy. On the English stage, playwrights use food animals to impress the ethico-political implications of land enclosure, forest emparkment, the search for new fisheries, and air and water pollution from urban slaughterhouses and markets. Concurrent developments in animal husbandry and theatrical production in the period thus led to new ideas about emplacement, embodiment, and the ethics of interspecies interdependence.

Richmond from ten to twelve miles from here.

Shows troop positions, batteries, etc. near Dutch gap on the James River.