Emily
Nelms

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M.A. Student at UAB
28
Birmingham, Alabama

Jimmy Carter once said, “Wherever life takes us, there are moments of wonder.” The wonder of the life that Emily knew took her to many places and paths, based solely on the fact that she never really knew what she wanted to do with her life. Sometimes, life can even take you into moments of assurance. Her love in life was the world of history, especially that of the modern South and social history (Civil Rights Movement). And, life has brought her to the very moment of getting into it full-scale: graduate school. Never in her life would she have ever imagined that she would come to this chapter. In the initial years of my college career, she grumbled as she attended classes, choosing to sleep in more than study. Of course, her grades reflected such, with the exception of politics, art and art history, where her interests have never deterred. Either way, involvement in historical research of these areas has also initiated a deep concern for social justice and political equality, that she will probably fight until her dying day.

She left Alabama, where she had been all of her life, and moved to Washington, D.C. (or just a half-block outside it) in May 2006, to work in a political affairs division of a bi-partisan trade association, and tried to justify the move as an aim for graduate school in the area. As fortune would have it, she returned to Birmingham in May 2007 to finish graduate school and to focus on urban history, but hopes to return to Washington, D.C. upon graduated (or at least to fulfill my promises to the graduate program director to not leave again until graduation). While it’s criticized for all it is, Alabama has it’s perks: the ‘blue dots’ that seen around the city keep her optimistic that maybe everyone will see the light politically… at some point, at least.

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