Phillip Haddix

Phillip Haddix is a 23 year old resident of Syracuse, New York. In the spring of 2023 he graduated from Syracuse University with a B.A. in Writing & Rhetoric. His studies centered around African American rhetoric, screenwriting, creative writing, animation, and ancient and medieval history. The main interests of his writing are family history, comic books, nineteenth and twentieth century African American history, and American film and music history, paying particular attention to narratives around the origins of Hip Hop and it’s early recordings. In the summer of 2024, Phillip worked as a digital archives assistant with the Freedom On The Move Project, photographing runaway slave ads ranging from the colonial period to the Civil War, housed in the vast newspaper collection at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. In the fall of 2024, he concluded a year long research project with the Onondaga Historical Association that culminated in an exhibit celebrating the 160th anniversary of the National Convention of Colored Men of 1864, which met in Syracuse. Phillip currently looks to return to some of the creative writing projects he attempted some years ago but never brought to fruition, hoping to combine his interests in history, silver age comics, and 80s Hip Hop.