Tule Lake, as shown in the images, is both part of the surrounding landscape in northern California and the site of an original prison camp, says Cathlin Goulding. Cathlin, a cultural researcher currently pursuing her doctorate at Teachers College, shares about this incarceration site that used to be the size of a small city with about 20,000 Japanese Americans and is now disappeared from the landscape and has become a national historic site. She talks with AC4's Meredith Smith about her current efforts there and the background to her research. Cathlin looks at Tule Lake and also other sites, such as Guantanamo Bay, as places of exception and she studies how to design such places as places for public learning. She received an AC4 Fellowship for her work on this project in 2013.

For more info on Cathlin Goulding's AC4-sponsored project: http://ac4.ei.columbia.edu/opportunities/ac4-graduate-student-fellowship-program/2013-fellows/

Photo taken and provided by Cathlin Goulding.