Niv Karthikeyan

A Toolkit for Telling an Alternate Institutional History

by Niv KarthikeyanThis third quarter of my Chang Prize project has been both preparatory and reflective. I have been glad to look forward to my upcoming digital publication, “Fragile Solidarities,” and dive into archival work for it. The past few months have thus seen...

Intersections: From My ‘Personal Archive’

by Niv KarthikeyanThe last seven months have been transformative. To give you a taste of the projects I have been working on, the communities I have connected with, and the ways that my experiences have allowed me to start reimagining both myself and the world, I...

Archiving Communities of Resilience and Resistance in Caltech’s Present & Past

This panel marked the end of the first quarter of my 2020 Chang Prize project, “Intersections” – a project that I imagined would explore the ways that recording and remembering community histories could inform, ground, and inspire new forms of solidarity building. I...