Creating a Medical Perspective Centered Around Eco-Centric Indigenous Values Incorporated with Western Healthcare Principles

This born-digital document was cataloged and uploaded to DLynx by Rosie Meindl during spring of 2025.In this podcast series I explore how Native American medicinal practices have been lost throughout years of settler colonialist destruction, ultimately resulting in physical harm to Indigenous communities, a spiritual severance to Mother Earth, and cultural genocide. Acknowledging Indigenous healing methods maintains the value they hold, not only to Native communities, but to the progression of American public healthcare. Through the intertwining Native American medicinal principles to Western healthcare systems, we shift the focus from assessing individual proponents impacting health to a more eco-centric, community forward, and holistic way of providing health care solutions

"The 2025 Thesis Exhibition" Exhibition Image

This digital image was photographed by Chip Pankey and uploaded to DLynx in the Visual Resources Center during spring 2025.This digital image shows the senior thesis exhibition in Clough Hanson Gallery in spring of 2025. The exhibition was on display from April 25 to March 1, 2025

Removal and Replacement: Exploring Environmental Impacts Resulting from Indigenous Peoples Removal and Rise of the Southern Plantation Economy

This arcgis storymap was cataloged and uploaded to DLynx by Rosie Meindl during spring of 2025.Indigenous tribes like the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminoles existed in the American South long before European colonizers made contact, but the Indian Removal Act (1830) forcibly removed each tribe throughout the 19th century. Succeeding removal came the westward expansion of American agriculture, forestry, land speculation, etc; far from the system of responsibilities of caring for the land held by Native tribes. This StoryMap explores the South's environment before removal, the land management practices used by Indigenous tribes and Colonizing forces, colonial justifications for removal, and the detrimental effects plantations and their owners had on the South. The arcgis storymap that goes with this project is available here: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b6e1888203a74dcfb5ef918355c3307

Exploring Volunteer Motivations in Refugee Assistance Amid Shifting U.S. Immigration Policies

This document was received from the Rhodes Institute for Regional Studies and uploaded to Dlynx by Rosie Meindl during fall 2025.This research examines the motivations that drive community members to provide humanitarian aid to refugees amid increasingly restrictive U.S. immigration policies. As refugee admissions and immigration policies fluctuate with changes in political administrations, the role of grassroots support becomes increasingly critical. This study aims to explore the reasons why individuals volunteer to support displaced populations, particularly when such efforts often receive limited institutional support and may encounter increasing sociopolitical resistance. By focusing on a refugee aid organization in the Mid-South, this project examines the personal, social, and political factors that influence volunteer motivation. The research begins with a literature review on volunteerism, humanitarianism, and immigration policy, identifying gaps in understanding how volunteers interpret and respond to policy changes. To bridge these gaps, I will conduct in-depth interviews with volunteers at the center, focusing on their motivations, experiences, and evolving perceptions of their roles. I will also examine the organization's volunteer materials, training protocols, and mission statements to analyze how institutional narratives shape expectations and behavior. This study positions volunteerism as both a personal and political act, where individuals act not for direct benefit, but out of moral obligation, empathy, or opposition. Understanding the motivations behind such actions will contribute to broader discussions on civic engagement, social responsibility, and the resilience of civil society in politically challenging times. Ultimately, this research aims to illuminate how individual action persists and adapts in response to shifting national priorities, offering insights into the sustaining power of local humanitarian work amidst systemic constraints

The Rat's Ass, February 17, 2025, Volume 09, Issue 06

This image was digitized and uploaded to DLynx in the Visual Resources Center in February 2025, by Wyatt Bigner '27. This issue of the Rat's Ass is from the Wyatt Bigner collection.This issue of the Rat's Ass dates from February 17, 2025. This issue features the piece "DATA TRANSPARENCY NOW," calling attention to the data-keeping practices of the people entering and exiting campus and what it may be used for, by an author under the pseudonym Bayleigh Layne. The inside of the issue has the work "Tampons" and "Interpretation of (Rhodes) Dreams," the poems "Driving down the Interstate," and "Swept by Ship, by Lock, by Key," by The Mediummm. Also on the inside of this issue is a feature bringing in 2025 with the "ins" and "outs" of the year. The back of the issue promotes a "Rategy" by Nasus Mai, expressing possibilities, NOT condoned by the editors of the Rat's Ass, to access food at the Rat and Lair if it would otherwise be unaccessible

RAB: Rites of Spring 2025 Basketball Sticker, 2025

This image was digitized and uploaded to DLynx in the Visual Resources Center in April 2025, by Wyatt Bigner '27. This sticker is from the Rhodes College Archives.This sticker is from 2025. It comes from the Rhodes Activity Board's tabling for ticket sales leading up to Rites of Spring 2025

Memphis Stories: Rebecca Hutchinson

This oral history with Rebecca Hutchinson, was recorded on November 21, 2024, with Dr. Charity Clay as part of the Mellon grant-funded Memphis Stories Project. In this inerview Rebecca Hutchinson discusses life in South Memphis, Foote Homes public housing, Calverta Ishmael, Metropolitan Baptist Church, Vance Junior High School, and Cotton Carnival

"Johnathan Payne: Regenesis" Exhibition Image

This digital image was photographed by Chip Pankey and uploaded to DLynx in the Visual Resources Center during spring 2025.This digital image shows an exhibition in Clough Hanson Gallery featuring artwork by Johnathan Payne. The exhibition, titled "Johnathan Payne: Regenesis," was on display from January 31 to March 27, 2025. Johnathan Payne graduated from Rhodes college in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in art and went on to earn an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University. He has exhibited his works both nationally and abroad and in 2020 held a residency at Crosstown Arts located in Memphis. His artwork is in the permanent collection of the Memphis International Airport

"Tennessee Williams: Paintings of Love and Loss" Exhibition Image

This digital image was photographed by Chip Pankey and uploaded to DLynx in the Visual Resources Center during spring 2025.This digital image shows an exhibition in Clough Hanson Gallery featuring artwork by playwright Tennessee Williams. The exhibition, titled "Tennessee Williams: Paintings of Love and Loss," was on display from January 31 to March 27, 2025. The seven paintings were donated to Rhodes by Kenneth Holditch (class of 1955)

"Reshaping the Landscape: Environmental Repercussions of Native American Removal" exhibition poster

This born-digital document was cataloged and uploaded to DLynx by Rosie Meindl during spring of 2025.Poster an exhibition called "Reshaping the Landscape: Environmental Repercussions of Native American Removal." The exhibition opened on April 22, 2025 on the ground floor of Barret Library