Joshua Adair

Feb 23, 2024 | atlasobscura.com | Sonya Vatomsky |Joseph Hayes |April White |Joshua Adair

A Victorian-era sitter is clamped into position using a metal frame before having his portrait taken. We can’t seem to get enough of the Victorian Era, and the denizens of that mid- and late-19th century period that saw fascinating changes in science and society. Our obsession with everything from their fashion sense to their prudery has led to countless wondrous stories. Some are mere historical embellishment (you’ve heard about those “sexy” furniture legs?) but other wacky tales are all-too-true.

May 13, 2023 | theautoethnographer.com | Joshua Adair

A Collision of Several Cultures: My Old Kentucky HomoAuthor’s MemoMy essay, “My Old Kentucky Homo,” offers a glimpse into the collision of several cultures that I experienced as a newly minted PhD. The first clash was between North and South as I had been living near Chicago, IL. The university selected me for an interview for an assistant professorship at a university in rural western Kentucky.