Hazim Hardeman

Hazim Hardeman is a Presidential Scholar and Graduate Prize Fellow PhD candidate in the American Studies Program. His research examines the cultural products and practices that emerge from the routine encounter with premature death among young people in inner city black communities. His dissertation tentatively titled "Angels to Feel Every time the Wind Blows: Death, Ritual, and Regeneration in Black Life" looks at how experience with loss becomes the staging ground for identity formation and expression, leading to creative and critical self-fashioning that allow young people to reflect, reflect on, and potentially refract the conditions of their lives.

Project: History of the Odd Fellows Cemetery and its relation to industrial and postindustrial Philadelphia