👋 Hi! I’m Jordan.

From an early age, I’ve loved to express myself through doodles, poetry, dance, and most other forms of art presented to me. A favorite childhood pastime was taking…

Architecture Out of Time: Metabolism and the Nakagin Capsule Tower

ARTH 47.06: Modernity’s Global Story of Architecture

Ethnographic Study: Cross-Counter Encounters

ANTH 18: Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology How full-time staff at Dartmouth’s ‘53 Commons find meaning and connection Introduction In this project, I explore how service staff members…

Mental Health Practices

PSYC 50: Neuroscience of Mental Illness For my first mental health practice, I practiced box breathing, or “square breathing”, which is a repeated sequence of 4 counts inhaling,…

Sleep and Depression

PSYC 50: Neuroscience of Mental Illness How might sleep deprivation alleviate symptoms of depression? Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a common mental illness, affecting 2-6% of people (Taraku…

Halloween at ’53 Commons

ANTH 18: Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology Names have been redacted for privacy. It is Halloween and it is 5:45 PM in ‘53 Commons and it is simultaneously…

The Default Mode Network and PTSD

PSYC 50: Neuroscience of Mental Illness Is there evidence that abnormalities in the default mode network (DMN) contribute to dissociative symptoms in PTSD and other dissociative disorders? On…

Design Case Study: Dartmouth Dining

COSC 25.02: Intro to UI/UX Design II

Neuroscience Reflections

PSYC 6: Intro to Neuroscience Reflection 1 I hold a software engineering internship position, and I made a surprising connection between a product feature I recently worked on…

Tension in the Muted Cell in “Kent Monkman: The Great Mystery”

ANTH 3: Intro to Cultural Anthropology Introduction When I approached Kent Monkman’s 2023 Muted Cell (Blue Light) on display at the Hood Museum of Art, I was struck…

Design Case Study: Florish

COSC 25.01: Intro to UI/UX Design I This is a static export of a dynamic case study. As such, the two embedded videos may be viewed separately below…

Dissociative Identity Disorder Comic Excerpt

COLT 49.09: Graphic Medicine The following pages were digitally lettered and edited out of a larger series of sketches for a biographical work of graphic medicine.

A Comparative Reading of Panels from Dumb and Marbles

COLT 49.09: Graphic Medicine In “The Uses of Graphic Medicine for Engaged Scholarship,” Susan Merrill Squier gives an overview of the medium known as graphic medicine and its…

Interpretations of Darkness in Our Cancer Year

COLT 49.09: Graphic Medicine Our Cancer Year shows the lives of Harvey Pekar and his wife, Joyce Brabner, over the course of a year in which Harvey is…

The Way It Works: RFID Card

ENGS 11: The Way Things Work

The Way It Works: Mechanical Pencil

ENGS 11: The Way Things Work

The Album

SART 20: Drawing II This sketch and analysis were completed in response to a visit to the Hood Museum of Art. Eastman Johnson, American, 1824 – 1906The Album1859Charcoal…

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

SART 20: Drawing II This sketch and analysis were completed in response to a visit to the Hood Museum of Art. Francisco Jose de Goya y LucientesThe Sleep…

Ilse Bischoff

SART 20: Drawing II These sketches and analysis were completed in response to a visit to the Hood Museum of Art. Paul Cadmus, American, 1904 – 1999Ilse Bischoff1937Pen…

Beach Study No. 3, Provincetown

SART 20: Drawing II This analysis was completed in response to a visit to the Hood Museum of Art. Charles Demuth, American, 1883 – 1935Beach Study No. 3,…

Equipment for conducting the Voight Kampff test in a dimly lit room. A lone eye unsettlingly stares forward from a monitor.

Complementary Cyborgs

WGSS 07.01: Gender in Science Fiction This was written as a final unit reflection essay. The stories we have studied for the cyborgs unit of our class are…

Amazon warrior woman from the future wields a whip, while other female members of her society run in the background.

War, Work, and Love in The Left Hand of Darkness and “When it Changed”

WGSS 07.01: Gender in Science Fiction The term “utopia” was born from Thomas More’s fictional world of Utopia in 1516. More’s Utopia is fundamentally a political experiment in…

Woman in red sci-fi outfit bravely defends a man (out of frame) with her laser pistol.

Alien Amazons: A Reflection on the Representation of Women in SF

WGSS 07.01: Gender in Science Fiction Science fiction is a hard genre to pin down with respect to social issues. In the beginning, genre SF assumed a sort…

An oil painting of Jordan, Mari, and Clark, backlit in dark clothing. They look intimidating.

Painting 1: Final Proposal

SART 25: Painting 1 Going into the end of the term, I want to continue the figurative work I began in my eighth-page studies. I was more engaged…

A yin-yang symbol, where the smaller dots have been extended into gendered pictograms. The stark contrast between light and dark suggest a binary view of gender.

A Struggle Towards Androgyny in The Left Hand of Darkness

WGSS 07.01: Gender in Science Fiction Is the The Left Hand of Darkness feminist? If Ursula K. Le Guin is a feminist author, why does she imagine a…

An extremely round Avogadro Project sphere suspended in a big machine.

Permissivism: Possibilities, Presuppositions, and Pragmatism

WRIT 5.04: What is Knowledge? Uniqueness vs. Permissivism Sometimes it is helpful to think about our cognition like a machine. Perhaps we are engineers making a machine that…

A confusing map of a (somewhat) flat earth model. The model is well-drawn, creating doubt as to whether it could actually work.

Conspiracy Theories and Fallibilism

WRIT 5.04: What is Knowledge? Our day-to-day life is largely dependent on our knowledge. I know that the air is safe to breathe when I go outside. I…

A delicious chocolate cake the reader might be tempted to eat.

Cake, Cumin, Candy, and the Stakes of Pragmatic Encroachment

WRIT 5.04: What is Knowledge? What does it take for a belief to be justified? Most would agree that justification requires some level of evidence, internally accessible information…

Exterior view of the Remnant Fellowship Church, an imposing brick structure.

Media Analysis: A Remnant of Gwen Shamblin’s Power

REL 1.02: Contemporary Religion The Way Down: God, Greed and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin was produced by Campfire and Huntley Productions and released on September 30, 2021;…

A foreboding Scientology "E-Meter" rendered nearly devoid of color. It feels sterile and clinical.

From Dianetics to Divinity: A Case Study of Scientology

REL 1.02: Contemporary Religion Scientology, an ideology that can be represented as a science, therapy, and religion, was developed in the 1950s (Kent 97). It grew to operate…

A stylized anatomical diagram illustrates a bridge between science and art.

“The Two Cultures” and the Value of Interdisciplinary Education

Directed Self-Placement (DSP) Essay In my college research and selection process, I alternated between seeking depth and breadth in my postsecondary education. I focused on interdisciplinary opportunities to…

An arm reaches through a laptop screen to make a handshake, symbolizing technology connecting Jordan with the Spanish-speaking world.

Mis Planes con el Español

Este ensayo fue escrito como una reflexión final en la clase de AP Español Lengua y Cultura. Cuando empecé a estudiar el español en la escuela intermedia, el…

A stack of Chromebooks illustrate the prevalence of technology in school environments.

Technology in Education Speech

This essay was written for an education unit final in AP English Language and Composition. Thank you for having me. Today, I wish to express to you, the…