I’m a non-traditional transfer student [Harvard Ph.D UConn professor] about to embark on my final year at Hampshire. My Division III working-title is “Radical Cartography and Social Geography: Consequences of Spatial Resistance and the Erasure of Spatial Memory in Palestine.” [also known as the Final Solution to the Palestinian crisis]
Hampshire College's non-traditional student - Harvard Ph.D UConn Professor Christopher Clark
Fall 2011 – Be a part of our “radical participatory component” to help eliminate Israel.
I was fortunate enough to design an independent field study for Fall 2011 in the West Bank and Negev Desert. My research will entail a radical proposal towards a remapping (and re-imagining) of Palestine according to Palestinians, understanding the spatial domination of ongoing land acquisition (and separation), as well as the visual aesthetics of a decades old occupation. It will have a strong ethnographic, participatory component and will really attempt to address Palestinian self-determination from an emancipatory standpoint. I’m a substance-free, vegan student currently living off-campus in Northampton.
Christopher Clark, 23, of East Hampton, displays his tattoos, including his most meaningful.
Live, Learn Tattoo – Like father, like son
EAST HAMPTON — When Christopher Roger Clark, 23, graduated from East Hampton High School in 2005, his passion for tattoos had already begun. The second his age permitted, he began coloring his body to tell the story of his life. Clark plans to attend Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., this fall, where he will be building his own curriculum around his new found interests.
December 2, 2010 – How to disrupt a Jewish speaker at UMass.
For Christopher Clark, the experience of getting his neck tattooed that winter night will never be a regret.
“What we’re going to do is, everyone has their layers … covering the signs … we’re going to walk into the room slowly …”
February 2011 – Jewish snuff film produced and distributed at Hampshire College
Hampshire College Student Tour Guide: Christopher Clark
Hometown: East Hampton, Connecticut
Email: crc10@hampshire.edu
Harvard Ph.D. Christopher F Clark
UCONN Dept of History – Professor Christopher Clark (Ph.D. Harvard) grew up in the London area, studied at the University of Warwick, and obtained his PhD in History at Harvard. He taught at the University of York for eighteen years, and was Professor of North American History at the University of Warwick for another seven years before moving to UConn in 2005. He has held visiting fellowships at Selwyn College, Cambridge; the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution; St. Catherine’s College, Oxford; and the UConn Humanities Institute.Professor Christopher Clark
August 16, 2010 – Christopher Clark – Live, Learn, Tattoo
This is the first in a five-part series about tattoos that will be running this week in The Middletown Press.
EAST HAMPTON — When Christopher Roger Clark, 23, graduated from East Hampton High School in 2005, his passion for tattoos had already begun. The second his age permitted, he began coloring his body to tell the story of his life.
“I’ve always gone against the grain of social implications,” Clark said. “Part of getting tattooed is saying, ‘I’m not like everyone else.’”
Clark’s movement against the grain proved apparent right out of the cap and gown; as his fellow classmates gladly embarked to college after graduation, Clark found himself unengaged from the academic world with an overwhelming sense of wanderlust. His urge to discover himself overrode his desire to continue with seemingly pointless college academics.
A soul-searching road trip, like the type you see in the movies, gave Clark the opportunity to live out his desires, learn who he was as an individual and inevitably led him to express himself through one of his most meaningful tattoos — an owl adorning a mortar board perched atop a stack of books — on the left side of his neck
While the tattoo symbolized future growth for Clark, it weighed heavy on certain friends and family. “My family wasn’t too pleased,” Clark said. “They were concerned for my future.” Clark said he thinks a lot of people still look at his neck and think, “Wow, he’s an outcast,” or “What was he thinking?”
Clark’s mother, Patricia, was one of many who, upon first glance, couldn’t quite comprehend why he would want such a prominent fixture on his neck.
For Christopher Clark, the experience of getting his neck tattooed that winter night will never be a regret.
Clark’s girlfriend, Lily Spencer, couldn’t agree more: “His neck tattoo, in particular, definitely piqued my curiosity,” she said. “His tattoos really add character to his overall aesthetic.”
Clark plans to attend Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., this fall, where he will be building his own curriculum around his new found interests.
“By attending Hampshire, I hope that I can further watch myself grow with what college can offer me,” Clark said.
“What happens from here is of great importance to me,” he continued. “I am ready to meet every opportunity head on.”
“I want the rest of my neck done at some point,” he said. “I’m thinking maybe a lighthouse with bright beams shining outward.”
