Franklin Tucker Eccher


research /  narrative /  place making

PhD student, history and education, Penn

Former College Launch Lead, Outer Coast, Sitka, AK

contact: the polyhistorical blog / are.na / fteccher [at] gmail [dot] com
Selected Projects, Works, and Engagements

MA, History, University of Pennsylvania
    December 2025

  • Taught Nietzsche’s The Gay Science with Becca Rothfeld at the Matthew Strother Center for the Examined Life
  •     September 2025

The Polyhistorical Blog
    substack launched August 2025

  • Taught “Writing (into) Place” with Cathryn Klusmeier at the Outer Coast Summer Seminar
    July 2025

  • “No One is Reading the Books”
  •    The Examined Review, June 2025

  • “A Dispatch from the Long Haul”
  •    The Examined Review, June 2025

“Ḵak’w” (Basket Bay History), letterpress print and recitation
    Tlingit Language Conference, Outer Coast, April 2025

  • “Here Come the Allodidacts” (co-authored with William Deresiewicz, Ena Alvarado, Brian Hamilton, Benjamin Laufer, Gabrielle Okigbo, and Caroline Young)
  •    The Hinternet, February 2025

  • “What Today’s Activists Can Learn from 1968”
  •    Chronicle of Higher Ed,  October 2024

Residency at the Matthew Strother Center for the Examined Life
    October 2024

  • Taught “Building Other Worlds” with Lizzie Krontiris and Erika Bullock at the Outer Coast Summer Seminar
  •     July 2024

Panelist, “Rethinking Democracy and Education” Conference
     Tidelines Institute, August 9-11, 2024

Panelist, “From Small Town to Campus” Conference
    Princeton University, February 10-11, 2023

“Pouring Over” specialty coffee pop-up with Nirali Desai
    Sitka, when we feel like it