Global American Studies Presentations

Date: 

Friday, September 29, 2017, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St.

Postdoctoral Fellows Melissa Castillo-Garsow, Christopher Clements, Tejasvi Nagaraja, and Juliet Nebolon will offer brief presentations of their work, and participate in a discussion of Global American Studies.

Melissa Castillo-Garsow: “A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture”

Christopher Clements: “Akwesasne: Settler Colonialism and Everyday Life on the Northern Border”

Tejasvi Nagaraja: “Soldiers of the American Dream: War Work, Jim Crow and Popular Movements Amidst Global Militarization”

Juliet Nebolon: “Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai‘i and the Making of Transpacific Empire”