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Avery Parker is a scholar and author interested in studying people and their history, earnest expression, and speculation about culture and society. His academic research centers on Atlantic post-emancipation societies with special focus on the United States during the Reconstruction Era, on which he has two ongoing thesis papers.
"Today" is history's culmination. Every car wreck, social movement, fashion trend, law has a history, and it can tell us much about how and why the world works as it does. Avery's interest in history is borne out of the urge to understand the "whys" and "hows" that dominate the 21st century. How did civil rights in the United States become what they are today? How did Haiti, the world's first free Black Republic, become a "failed nation"? Where do international values of justice, equality, and social responsibility stem from and what do we really mean when we invoke them? These interests coincide with Avery's artistic pursuits as they point at the question all artists ask--what does it mean to be human?