https://www.gjasperconner.com/home daily 1.0 2024-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf86969f450e793d8a7fbb/e6ab59f4-2e7c-4195-8e2a-9ce0b3a66cc0/jasperc-20210514-jakec-2.jpg Home - About Jasper works on the history of disabled African Americans in the modern U.S. South. Combining archival research with oral history, his work explores the lived experiences of Black disabled people at residential schools, at work, and in the community. His work is informed by the birth of his second child, who is Deaf. He is a current Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute. Jasper recently published his first peer-reviewed article titled “Blind and Deaf Together: Cross-Disability Community at Virginia's Residential School for Black Disabled Youth” in the Fall 2023 issue of Disability Studies Quarterly. Jasper has also published “Education of Deaf and Blind African Americans in Virginia, 1909-2008” as a part of the Social Welfare History Project with Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries in 2022. Jasper has presented research at the annual conferences for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the Labor and Working-Class History Association, the Southern Labor Studies Association, the Organization of American Historians, the American Association for the History of Medicine, and the History of Education Society. His research has been supported by the Archie K. Davis Fellowship, Kentucky Historical Society Research Fellowship, VCU Publishing Research Award, and the William P. Heidrich Research Fellowship. Jasper received his BA from Virginia Commonwealth University in African American Studies in 2016. https://www.gjasperconner.com/oral-history daily 0.75 2021-07-31 https://www.gjasperconner.com/curriculum-vitae daily 0.75 2024-10-21 https://www.gjasperconner.com/human-being daily 0.75 2024-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf86969f450e793d8a7fbb/e3255192-d134-4337-8b49-85d0f3ed273e/20240405_172117.jpg Jasper the Human Being A white man with black glasses and a flannel shirt holds a girl in a pink dress, both are slightly laughing. Behind them is a long sign in French, indicating that they are at the National Institute for Deaf Youth of Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf86969f450e793d8a7fbb/af4e9cc7-73fb-477b-be67-254cf21dd350/signal-2024-03-30-17-29-29-820-1.jpg Jasper the Human Being A white man with black glasses poses with a blonde-haired boy, both wearing the same green Tottenham Hotspur jersey. Behind them are hundreds of spectators and a massive scoreboard indicating the score of the game: Tottenham Hotspur 2, Luton Town 1, in the 99th minute of the match. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf86969f450e793d8a7fbb/c394f219-70d6-4134-810a-30127cf0f809/IMG_0189.JPG Jasper the Human Being A white family sits on a sandstone sign reading "Grand Canyon National Park" on a bright day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf86969f450e793d8a7fbb/93bd2711-27ed-490c-b43f-fe31c9a12f7f/IMG_0145.JPG Jasper the Human Being A white man in a flannel shirt stands next to a blonde haired boy seated on a rock. Both look into the distance. The rock face behind them is covered in petroglyphs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf86969f450e793d8a7fbb/ac23d320-42c3-4121-9104-4915d6731b99/IMG_0136.JPG Jasper the Human Being In the foreground, a blonde haired boy in a green rain coat touches a rock as a white man in a flannel shirt balances on a rock, holding the hand of a girl who climbs up a pile of large rocks. The rocks above the family are covered with petroglyphs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf86969f450e793d8a7fbb/201ae956-34b4-4d20-8bb5-5385d85858d1/IMG_0128.JPG Jasper the Human Being A white man with glasses and a purple shirt sits on a rock next to a small girl with light brown hair. The sky is bright blue, with a single puffy white cloud. Red-rock buttes jut across the background of the image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf86969f450e793d8a7fbb/81e5e27c-cc11-43b1-b388-2aa57e146931/IMG_0234.JPG Jasper the Human Being A white man, woman, and two children sit on a short stone wall in front of the Grand Canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf86969f450e793d8a7fbb/3ba7ce6e-0ec3-4f50-b261-f486f77038b4/groups-nico-jasper-fam-20210514-jakec-38.jpg Jasper the Human Being A white family sits on a green bench, all wearing shades of blue. The little girl sits on the lap of the mother, the little boy sits on the lap of the father. Behind them is a garden, with trellises and pots, behind that is a large white pickup truck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf86969f450e793d8a7fbb/302b46a8-32e1-4863-bef9-8b914e481ba2/groups-nico-jasper-fam-20210514-jakec-81.jpg Jasper the Human Being A white man in blue sits on a green bench, a girl in an overall dress stands on the bench with her arm around her father. Behind them is a spring garden and a white pickup truck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf86969f450e793d8a7fbb/6ab0aafe-ef15-4ee0-bb50-5723056f38f9/126954601_10103104453896375_4019055655508097636_n_10103104453891385.jpeg Jasper the Human Being A white man in a flannel stands with a blonde-haired boy in an orange pokemon hoodie. Behind them is the vast sprawl of the Grand Canyon with brown landscapes dotted with flashes of green. https://www.gjasperconner.com/publications daily 0.75 2023-12-06