FELLOWS FOR 2009-2010

Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, Diaspora:
Transnational America from Above and Below
(workshop description appears below fellows listing)

Kristen Block - Department of History, Florida Atlantic University. Faith and Fortune: Religious Identity and the Politics of Profit in the Early Caribbean. [Fall Semester]

Marisa Fuentes - Departments of History and Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University. Buried Urban Landscapes: Enslaved Women Historically Confined in the Colonial Atlantic World.

Joshua Guild - Department of History, Princeton University. Shadows of the Metropolis: Urban Space and the Transformation of Black Communities in Postwar New York and London.

Paul Kramer - Department of History, Vanderbilt University. An Imperial Polity: Remaking Race in Global America.

Gunther Peck - Department of History, Duke University. Trafficking in Race: The Rise and Fall of White Slavery, 1700-2000.

Suzanna Reiss - Department of History, University of Hawai'i Mānoa. Policing for Profit: US Imperialism and the International Drug Economy.

Edward Rugemer - Department of African American Studies, Yale University. Struggles Over Slavery: a Comparative History of Jamaica and South Carolina From their Origins to 1838.

Patrick Wolfe - Department of History, La Trobe University. Settler Colonialism and the American West, 1865-1904.

Cynthia Young - Department of English and the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies, Boston College. Afterburn: Race and Culture After 9/11.

The 2009-10 Warren Center fellowship and workshop on Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, and Diaspora: Transnational America from Above and Below aims to convene a conversation between areas of inquiry conventionally pursued along separate pathways: between studies shaped around the question of imperial power and those concerned with subaltern politics, to be sure; but also between African American Studies, Native American Studies, Asian American Studies and Latino Studies. The workshop will develop a global, imperial, and national account of the historical coordinates of migration, immigration, and diaspora in United States history, mapping the patterns traced by commercial, military, and legal power alongside the movements of people, their ideas, and their political struggles. Participants will consider the ambivalent alliances and incommensurable categories of belonging that have emerged from the overlapping, amalgamating, and diverging historical experiences of various groups within (and outside of) U.S. history. In this way, the workshop will provide an occasion for scholars working in various traditions to reflect upon the embeddedness of their categories of inquiry in the very history of empire and identity formation they seek to represent.