{"id":24385,"date":"2024-03-01T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?p=24385"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:59:29","slug":"spotlight-on-research-march-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/2024\/spotlight-on-research-march-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Research: PhD candidate Meghan Tibbits-Lamirande publishes a new article"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Spotlight on Research: PhD candidate Meghan Tibbits-Lamirande publishes a new article\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Meghan Tibbits-Lamirande, a PhD candidate in the Department of English, has an article forthcoming in a 2024 issue of <em>American Quarterly<\/em>. \u201c\u2018Death before Reenlistment\u2019: Vandalism and Sabotage onboard the USNS&nbsp;<em>General John Pope<\/em>\u201d traces an alternative history of the USNS&nbsp;<em>General John Pope<\/em>, which had ferried troops across the Pacific throughout WWII and the Korean War and was reactivated in August 1965 as a civilian-manned ship of the Military Sea Transport Service (MSTS). While official histories of&nbsp;<em>The Pope<\/em>&nbsp;evoke a sense of pride, discipline, and martial prowess, 400 vandalized canvas bunk beds taken from the ship and preserved by Texas Tech University\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Vietnam Graffiti Project<\/em>&nbsp;tell an altogether different narrative of the years from 1965-1970. In this essay, Tibbits-Lamirande argues that GI tagging and vandalism onboard&nbsp;<em>The<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Pope&nbsp;<\/em>not only functions as a subterranean archive of soldiers\u2019 war experience, but also falls in line with a larger pattern of soldiers\u2019 resistance, which mobilized quotidian practices to sabotage military infrastructure and produce bonds of solidarity in the&nbsp;concomitant traditions of racial and working-class struggle.&nbsp;Ultimately, this work claims vandalism both as a form of revolt and a critically understudied resource for historical scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter wp-image-24386 size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/Spotlight-on-Research-March-2024-240x342.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24386\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image from the periodical Up Against the Bulkhead used under a Creative Commons licence.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Tibbits-Lamirande, a PhD candidate in the Department of English, has an article forthcoming in a 2024 issue of American Quarterly. \u201c\u2018Death before Reenlistment\u2019: Vandalism and Sabotage onboard the USNS&nbsp;General John Pope\u201d traces an alternative history of the USNS&nbsp;General John Pope, which had ferried troops across the Pacific throughout WWII and the Korean War and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,33,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-publications-successes","category-news","category-sor"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27368,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24385\/revisions\/27368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}