Larkin Gallup is Winner of this years Summer Research Grant Prize

Larkin Gallup is a rising senior from southern California studying Anthropology and International Studies with a minor in Environmental Studies. She is interested in sustainable design and development, intersectional environmentalism, and the food system. Baltimore’s history as a city shaped by industry has guided her interest in sustainable and equitable design.

Research: The project is studying the history of the South Baltimore neighborhood Hawkins Point and its eventual destruction due to decades of pollution and the encroachment of industry on its residents. It compares the moment when Hawkins Point residents were bought out to the current fight against CSX’s coal terminal in Curtis Bay, studying points in time where people and industry inhabit the same spaces, and the choices that are made to force either out. The research will be conducted from June – December 2023.