Researcher · Writer · Advocate
History, policy, and human rights, read together.
Alexis Bendickson is a student researcher and writer working at the intersection of history, policy, and human rights — building on interdisciplinary study in philosophy, political science, and sociology.
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Research
Archival and field research on the Avalon plantation and its enslaved residents at UAH, with hopes of contributing to the national Locating Slavery's Legacies database.
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Political and philosophical essays on Substack — from party realignment in Alabama to a critique of spectacle capitalism.
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Professional wedding, family, and portrait work through Lillianna Matthew Photography.
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
A foundational anti-imperialist analysis of colonial extraction and its long economic afterlife.
Black Reconstruction in America
A history of Reconstruction centering Black political agency — a throughline for the Avalon research.
The Souls of Black Folk
Essays on identity, double consciousness, and the color line — a recurring reference point.
Stamped from the Beginning
A history of racist ideas in America, tracing how they were produced and contested over time.