The Guantánamo Public Memory Project is very pleased to welcome a new member of our team, Lisa Novak. As an introduction, Lisa has written this latest installment of the Guantanamology series. Stay tuned for more from her and from the series in the future. I recently joined the Guantánamo Public Memory Project team to work…

As Guantánamo Public Memory Project Director Liz Sevcenko and journalist Garry Pierre-Pierre noted in a recent op-ed, the current detainee hunger strikes at GTMO are not unprecedented. In 1993, Haitian political refugees who had received clearance for asylum were barred from entering the US after they, or a family member, tested positive for HIV –…

Particularly given its geographic remoteness and public inaccessibility, Guantánamo is both difficult to comprehend and easy to forget about. Before joining the Guantánamo Public Memory Project, I understood GTMO as a product of the ‘War on Terror’ and knew very little about its prior uses.  Over the course of the past year and a half,…