Changing Projects. Changing Faces. 

"I’ve never met Sue White, but I know what her bookshelf looks like. She is well-read. Blurred, with the white balance too high, I can just make out the titles on the shelf: Hope Against History: The Ulster Conflict; International Human Rights in Context; International Human Rights Law; Civil Liberties in Northern Ireland; and a bottle of Bushmills Irish honey whiskey." This is the beginning of my honors thesis, a project that started out with a simple question: Why do we build walls? When I realized this question was beyond my scope of understanding, I tried to just focus on what it meant to re-image a city. However, the more involved I became-- and the more things changed in America-- I began questioning whether or not it was ethical for me, as a researcher, to force such opinions and stereotypes on a country in which I had stayed only eight weeks. So I stepped back. This work now profiles events, people, and places that captured what division looked like in Northern Ireland. So what do I have to concluce? That is for you to decide. Read a sample for more!