PAGE Blog Salon

Imagining America welcomes a new cohort of Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) fellows, who will be introducing themselves through Blog Salon stories. These fellows were selected for their sustained commitment to public engagement, and their unique approaches to engaged scholarship.

  • Green title slide that says, "Cultivating Food, Cultivating Care | Food Sovereignty in Nashville, Tennessee | Mandy Muise, 2025-2026 PAGE Fellow", "Food (IN)Security in Nashville | In Tennessee, over 70% of residents report altering their diets because of rising food costs. and more than 14% of" The bottom of the text is cut off. There are graphics of vegetables on the sides of the slide, and a photo of radishes in the bottom left corner.

    Cultivating Food, Cultivating Care: Food Sovereignty in Nashville, TN

    By Imagining America

    April 24, 2026

    Mandy Muise. An excerpt from Mandy’s ongoing ethnographic work in Nashville, Tennessee. Perpetually a work in progress.

  • ○ A colorful newspaper shows a small logo on the top left corner with a phoenix rising. The title of the paper is in thin, blue letters that read Tribuno del Pueblo. There are two images on the paper with the top one showing a drawing. The drawing has a blue background with letters in green, black, red, and light blue that reads “Vivos los llevaron, vivos los queremos. Solidaridad con los 43 estudiantes desap-”. On the right side of the drawing there are two flags showing the Mexican flag and Uruguayan flag.

    Tribuno del Pueblo: The People’s Paper

    By Imagining America

    April 16, 2026

    Ada Marys Lorenzana. Understanding the need for more Spanish publications, the Tribuno del Pueblo began publishing local stories from farmworkers, laborers, and immigrants in 1973. Voices that were regularly ignored in mainstream media were amplified in the Tribuno.

  • On a lined paper journal, printed text reads, "NOTE OF A FANGIRL". There are three photos put on the page, one of a hand holding a poster outside a concert, one of a book, and one of speakers at a book talk.

    Chasing Stories Across Borders: Notes from a Fangirl

    By Imagining America

    April 16, 2026

    Meng-Hsuan Ho. Fangirl devotion. Transpacific flights. Working mothers. These might seem like separate stories. But they all involve collective emotions—feelings that are shared but often unspoken, waiting for someone to name them and bring people together around them.

  • Artwork of a man's body on a textured light brown background. It looks like his body is made of clay which is cracked. You can only see waist up. The man's head is tilting down and he has no eyes. On his chest and core is a big outline of the shape of Africa. Within it, there are housing structures in the upper left, some rivers running down the center and lower part, with greenery on each side, and some people.

    African Migration is not One thing, so Let’s Rethink it Now

    By Imagining America

    April 16, 2026

    Chimee Adịọha. In the summer of 2023, I have just moved from Texas, still with all the boxes I arrived from Nigeria with, and then in my new apartment in Southern California, I started creating Diaspora Africa with my friend in London.

  • Slide with a purple and pink background. The title says, "My Healing Playlist" in purple. There are two purple half-ovals. They each have four songs listed. On the left it has, "Grief"~William Grant Still, "One Nation Under a Groove"~Funkadelic, "Frequency"~Jhene Aiko, and "Acknowledgment"~John Coltrane. On the right it has, "Float"~Janelle Monae, "Journey in Satchidananda"~Alice Coltrane, "Total Praise"~Richard Smallwood, and "One Sunday in the South" from Montgomery Variations~Margaret Bonds.

    Participatory Music, Sound Experiences, and Community Health

    By Imagining America

    April 10, 2026

    Ashley Martin-Casler. Though music is often a part of our daily lives, its potential as a vehicle for healing is less present as we go about our everyday routines. In our public consciousness, do we recognize music as a channel for emotional modulation, which can impact our sense of wellbeing?

  • On a blue paper looking background, a white box in the center has the text, "Reclaiming Community, Bodily, & Data Autonomy". Below in white handwriting it says, "By Leah M.F.". In the upper left corner a big paper cut-out says "VISIONS" in white text on a water blue background.

    Imagining Data as an Extension of our Bodies

    By Imagining America

    April 10, 2026

    Leah Friedman. For the last decade, I have been working as a professional dance artist. I have danced and toured with several contemporary dance companies in Philadelphia, PA and Phoenix, AZ, have taught countless modern dance classes, facilitated movement improvisation sessions, and created my own digital and live dance performances.

  • Collage on the cover of a black composition notebook. It includes cut-outs of a hand drawn eye, flowers, a heart, a cloud, a lamp post, music notes, and an image of James Baldwin. It also has some text reading, "faith", "communal", and "P.O.P. (Present on Purpose)".

    Read the Room: Go Tell the Community We Heal Together

    By Imagining America

    April 10, 2026

    Asia N. Ashley. In a moment when books are being legislated out of classrooms, and the stories that reflect our lives are being pulled from shelves, gathering around a text becomes an act of resistance and of care. Read the Room offers a space for people who crave connecting outside of high-social, work, or academic environments.

  • Photo of an old newspaper with the article title, "Have We a Dusky Peril | Hindu Hordes Invading the State". On the right side is a large question mark with a graphic of man with a head wrap, inside the question mark. Below the title are other drawings of men with head wraps.

    Assembling Zines in the Fault Lines

    By Imagining America

    April 10, 2026

    Shromona Mandal. My dissertation research asks how Hindu Nationalism foments in the wealthy racially segregated suburbs and ethnoburbs of Metro Atlanta and my ethnographic method of “studying up” requires me to straddle the simultaneity of power and marginalization that my interlocutors navigate.

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