Pembroke Center

Loogee Claude (she/her) is a PhD student in the Department of American Studies and holds a B.A. in Anthropology in Wellesley College. She is broadly interested in shifting public memory and public history in the U.S. South and how non-institutional actors make changes in these spaces. Her current research positions the defacement and removal of Confederate monuments as a center and catalyst for the changing landscape of public and popular culture in the U.S. South surrounding politics, memory, and identity. She hopes, in her work, to highlight the creative placemaking work of Southerners harnessing the power of the ever-shifting definition of "southernness" to make claims both linked to and distinct from the history of the South.