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Monday, April 29, 2013

The Department of Psychology Upcoming Lecture with Ezemenari Obasi

The department of Psychology invites students, faculty, and staff to its upcoming lecture: "Stress and Drug Use Vulnerability in the African American Community" presented by Ezemenari Obasi from the University of Houston. This lecture will take place on Friday, May 3rd from 11:00-12:00 in N639 Elliot Hall.

ABSTRACT: The development of drug abuse in the African American community is often characterized by oversimplified models that are rooted in research studies that rarely include African Americans. This study will identify mechanisms that influence drug use vulnerability in at- risk African American adults who reside in the southeastern U.S. Such research is needed to develop socially and culturally informed prevention and treatment programs aimed at reducing drug-related health disparities that continue to plague African Americans.

The Minnesota Political Colloquium presents Prof. Tarak Barkwai

The Minnesota Political Theory Colloquium is proud to present Prof. Tarak Barkawi from the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research. He will be presenting his paper "States, Armies, and Empires: Armed Forces and Society in World Politics" and a discussion is to follow. This lecture will take place on Friday, May 3rd from 1:30-3:00 in Social Sciences Tower room 1314.

Friday, May 3rd the Minnesota Political Theory Colloquium is proud to present Professor Tarak Barkawi from the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research. Tarak is an alumnus of the Political Science program at U of M and significantly contributes to critical international relations theory and strategic studies. Tarak will be presenting his paper, "States, Armies and Empires: Armed Forces and Society in World Politics," with discussion to follow. Please find the paper attached. The Colloquium will meet from 1:30-3:00 in the Lippincott Room (Social Sciences Tower 1314). Coffee will be served. All are welcome.
Please see attached flyer.
states.armies.empires.2013-2.pdf

Friday, April 26, 2013

Two post-doc positions attached to The ERC Advanced Grant

APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED for two post-doc positions attached to the European Research Council Advanced Grant: "Grassroots economics: Meaning, project and practice in the pursuit of livelihood" beginning Sept. 1st, 2013. A PhD in social anthropology or a closely related discipline in the social sciences is required. Postdoctoral fellows will conduct ethnographic research in Portugal, Italy, Greece or Spain but the research will be based at the Universitat de Barcelona. Application deadline: May 31st 2013.

The ERC Advanced Grant: "Grassroots economics: Meaning, project and practice in the pursuit of livelihood" invites applications for 2 post doctoral positions.
Deadline for Applications 31 May 2013. Employment is to begin on 1 September 2013.
Job Title:
Two Post Doctoral positions attached to ERC Advanced Grant: "Grassroots economics: Meaning, project and practice in the pursuit of livelihood"

Description of Project:

The project investigates grassroots economics by addressing the social, cultural and political environments in which common people make everyday economic decisions. Through an interdisciplinary approach that uses ethnographic fieldwork and comparative analysis, it investigates the interaction between individuals, households and institutions. The aim is to respond to the following questions: 1) How is the value(s) of economic action assessed? How do ordinary people negotiate different moral frameworks in pursuit of a better life? 2) What are the material and ideological conditions of possibility for designing life projects? What are the power relations that configure distribution patterns and channels for accessing resources? 3) What is the relationship between authoritative models of the economy and the real economic projects and practices of ordinary people in their pursuit of a livelihood?
Job Summary:
A PhD in social anthropology or a closely related discipline in the social sciences is required. Postdoctoral fellows will conduct ethnographic research in Portugal, Italy, Greece or Spain. They will take an active role in organizing scholarly activities related to the project, including conferences, workshops and seminars. Research will be based at the Universitat de Barcelona. There is no nationality/residence restriction. The main communication language is English.
Job application:
Applications must include, in a single PDF file:

  • A curriculum vitae
  • A motivation letter including 1) a brief description of the candidate's PhD and 2) an answer to the following questions: Why are you interested? How do you see your participation in the project? How does it fit your career plans?
  • A research plan with an indication of expected theoretical implications (2,000 words maximum)
  • Names and contact details of two recommenders
  • In addition to the above single file, applicants must include as an attachment: One published (or accepted) article.
  • All correspondence will be in English. Applications must be sent as e-mail attachments to borsadetreball@fbg.ub.edu by May 31 2013. E-mail message subject lines and attachment names must consist of the text "GRECO applicant's-last-name".
  • Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed during the first week of July.
  • For a full description of tasks and requirements please consult http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/jobs/index


For any other additional information, contact the principal investigator, Professor Susana Narotzky at the following email: recipocitat@ub.edu

Juliana Hu Pegues' article published

Current graduate student Juliana Hu Pegues' article "Rethinking Relations: Interracial Intimacies of Asian Men and Native Women in Alaskan Canneries," was published in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Volume 15, Number 1. For abstract and full article, please click here.

Wiggins accepts position at the University of Pennsyivania

Current Grad Student Ben Wiggins has accepted a position at the University of Pennsylvania as an Associate Director of Online Learning and Digital Engagement.

The Graduate Workshop in Modern History

The Graduate Workshop in Modern History (GWHM) will be held Heller Hall 1229 on Friday, May 3rd at 11:30am. Maarja Merivoo-Parro of the IHRC will present her paper: "'Pronunciations of Ethnicity Among Descendants of Estonian refugees in Post-War United States." Professor Elaine Tyler May of the Departments of American Studies and History will offer faculty comment.

Please join us Friday, May 3 at 11:30 AM for the Graduate Workshop in Modern History. We will be meeting in Heller Hall 1229. Please note the different starting time.
Maarja Merivoo-Parro of the IHRC will present her paper: "'Pronunciations of Ethnicity Among Descendants of Estonian refugees in Post-War United States." Professor Elaine Tyler May of the Departments of American Studies and History will offer faculty comment.
Hard copies will be available in the history department main office in Heller Hall, and an electronic version is also available at the GWMH Moodle site (see below).
A light lunch will be provided. We look forward to seeing you there!
For your calendars, please note the remaining meeting of the Modern History Workshop this semester:
May 10 at 11:30 AM in Heller 1229 - Adam Hjorthén of the IHRC, with Professor David Chang as discussant
TO ACCESS THE WORKSHOP WEBSITE:
Option 1: If you have a Moodle account and are logged in, go to https://moodle2.umn.edu/course/view.php?id=13717 and enter the one-time enrollment key (password: modhist) when prompted.
Option 2: If you prefer to access the site anonymously, go to http://moodle2.umn.edu and scroll down on the left-hand side to click on "Read-only access." Next, go to https://moodle2.umn.edu/course/view.php?id=13717 (or search for "Graduate Workshop in Modern History") and enter the enrollment key (password: modhist) when prompted.
Please contact Emily Bruce (bruce088@umn.edu) with any problems accessing the paper.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Women, Gender, and Families of Color: Call for Papers

Women, Gender, and Families of Color, a multidisciplinary journal published by the University of Illinois Press, is currently seeking manuscripts for three forthcoming Special Issues. This journal is sponsored by the University of Kansas and published by the University of Illinois Press

Race, Gender, and Disability
Abstracts Due: 6/1/13
Manuscripts Due: 10/20/2013
Despite discourse on gender/sexuality and race/ethnicity or gender and disability, there are few studies about the intersections of race, gender and disability from a critical perspective. This issue will focus on articles that analyze these intersections from different disciplinary perspectives. Categories include interrogations into the lives of people of color and white subjects from a critical whiteness perspective; gender as it encompasses interrogations of femininity, masculinity, transgender, or intersex subjectivity and any form of sexual expression and identity and their intersection; and disability to encompass impairment and the socio-cultural aspects that accompany it. Topics include but not limited to:
  • Family caregiving or parenting at the intersections of gender/race/disability
  • Lived experiences of disabled women/people of color
  • Representations of disability in families of color in films and literature
  • News and media representations of race, disability and gender/sexuality
  • Historical analysis that highlights these intersections (e.g., eugenics)
  • Policy, activism and interventions that empower disabled people of color
  • Articles connecting disability studies, queer theory and women's studies to critical race theory and critical whiteness studies
  • Analysis of policies related to education, employment, immigration and incarceration that centers on the intersections of race, gender and ability.

Contact: Guest-Editors Sandy Magana, maganas@uic.edu; Liat Ben Moshe, lbenmosh@uic.edu, University of Wisconsin.

The State of Child Welfare for Children and Families of Color

Manuscripts Due: June 30, 2013
What does the child welfare system mean to children and families of color in the US? It has long been a site of struggle for families of color. In the 1970s, the National Association of Black Social Workers issued a statement against the placement of black children in white foster or adoptive families and Native American activists achieved the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act. Today children of color are among the almost 700,000 children in foster care, about half of whom experience chronic medical needs and eleven percent of whom age out of the system with no permanent family placement. This troubling data raises questions about the relationship of the child welfare system to racial/ethnic minority children and families.
This special issue is soliciting manuscripts that explore the historical and contemporary issues, circumstances, policies, practices, and outcomes of child welfare for children and families of color; which includes multiracial/ethnic or transracial/transcultural foster care and adoptive families. Editors are particularly interested in historical, social, and behavioral science approaches to the following broad topics:
  • foster care and adoption
  • guardianship and kinship

  • placements, welfare policies, and permanency
  • aging out of state care and outcomes
  • transnational comparisons on any of the above
  • other topics that fit the general subject matter


Contact Editor Jennifer F. Hamer, Jhamer@KU.edu Guest-Editor Margaret Jacobs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
U.S. Immigration: Women's Rights and Realities
Manuscripts Due: 12/15/13
Women and families across racial and ethnic groups have historically moved to the US in search of better living conditions, safety, and opportunities. These women disproportionately suffer from poverty, assault, unfair labor practices, poor health, a lack of health services, and ambiguous protections and educational access for themselves and their children.
This special issue is devoted to scholarship that explores the historical and contemporary social, economic, cultural, and political aspects of living as documented/undocumented women of color emigrants. Possible topics include but not limited to:
  • separation from children, partners, and kin
  • emotional challenges

  • abuse and violence
  • reproductive rights and health care
  • labor issues
  • managing families and households
  • living conditions
  • documented and undocumented women
  • legal rights and protections
  • education

Contact: Editor, Jennifer Hamer, JHamer@KU.edu Guest-Editor, Jacqueline McLeod, Metropolitan State University of Denver

The Minnesota Political Theory Colloquium presents Prof. Charles Mills

The Minnesota Political Theory Colloquium is proud to present Professor Charles Mills from the Depertment of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He will present his paper "Decolonizing Western Political Philosophy," and a discussion is to follow. The Colloquium will meet from 1:30-3:00pm in Social Science Tower room 1314 on Friday April 26th.

His paper is attached below.
Mills, Decolonizing Western Political Philosophy.doc

Monday, April 22, 2013

ICGC Distinguished Public Lecture with Premesh Lalu

ICGC is hosting a Distinquished Public Lecture titled "The absent centre: human capital, nationalism and the desire for a postcolonial episteme" that will be presented by Premesh Lalu. This lecture will be held on Monday, April 29th from 3:30-5:00pm in 170 Humphrey School.

ICGC Distinguished Public Lecture
WHEN: Monday, April 29, 2013 3:30 - 5:00pm
WHERE: Stassen Room, 170 Humphrey School
"The absent centre: human capital, nationalism and the desire for a postcolonial episteme"

Presented by: Premesh Lalu, Director, Centre for Humanities Research, Deputy Dean for Research and Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Arts University of the Western Cape
Refreshments will be served.

The Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science presents Sall Haslanger

The Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science presents "Are We Breaking the Ivory Ceiling? Women and Minorities in Philosophy and STEM Disciplines" with Sally Haslanger from MIT. This talk will be held on Friday, April 26th in 275 Nicholson Hall at 3:35 - 5:00pm.

"Are We Breaking the Ivory Ceiling? Women and Minorities in Philosophy and STEM Disciplines"

Sally Haslanger

Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract: There has been significant work on the underrepresentation of women and minorities in STEM disciplines through the NSF ADVANCE program. Philosophy, however, has not drawn the same attention and continues to lag behind in the recruitment and retention of underrepresented groups, not only in comparison with other humanities and social sciences, but almost all the natural sciences (physics being the exception). What can we learn from recent research about the persistence of these disparities? What is being done now, and what should be done, to avoid the substantial loss of talent and to make the academy more just?
When: Friday April, 26th
Time: 3:35-5:00pm
Where: 275 Nicholson Hall

Friday, April 19, 2013

"Remote Intimacies: From Relocations to the Empty Orchestra" at Carleton College

American Studies and the Gender and Sexuality Center from Carlton College are co-sponsoring "Remote Intimacies: From Relocations to the Empty Orchestra" presented by Karen Tognson. This talk will be held in Gould Library Athenaeum at Carleton College on Wednesday, April 24th at 4:30pm.

"Remote Intimacies: From Relocations to the Empty Orchestra"
Wednesday, April 24, 4:30PM
Gould Library Athenaeum
Carleton College
This multimedia presentation explores the music and migrations, which animated Togson's first book, Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries, and continues to inspire her current work on aesthetics, karaoke, imitation, and critical/sexual geographies.
This talk is sponsored by the Endowed Fund for Academic Programs in LGBT Studies to the Women's and Gender Studies program, and co-sponsored by American Studies and the Gender and Sexuality Center.
Karen Tongson bio:
Associate Professor Karen Tongson joined the USC faculty in English and Gender Studies in fall 2005. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to USC, Tongson held a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship in Literature at UC San Diego, and a UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) Residential Research Fellowship at UC Irvine. Tongson's work on popular culture, queer studies, performance, music and literature has appeared in such journals as Social Text, GLQ, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and The International Journal of Communication, as well as in the anthologies Queering the Popular Pitch (Routledge), and The Blackwell Companion to LGBTQ Studies (eds. Haggerty and McGarry). Her first book, Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries, was published August 1, 2011, as part of the New York University Press Sexual Cultures Series. Professor Tongson is also a co-founder of the culture industry webzine OH! INDUSTRY (2007-2010). She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Popular Music Studies (alongside Gustavus Stadler), Series Editor of Postmillennial Pop at NYU Press (with Henry Jenkins), and Events Editor for the journal American Quarterly. Her latest book project, Empty Orchestra: Karaoke. Critical. Apparatus. offers a critique of prevailing paradigms of originality and imitation in aesthetics and critical theory, while exploring karaoke cultures, technologies, techniques and desires.
Click here for Carleton College's website with more info.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

ARTH 5565 "American Art of the GIlded Age: Or, an excercise in History, big or small" Fall 2013

ARTH 5565 "American Art of the Gilded Age: Or, an exercise in History, big or small" will be offered in Fall 2013 on Mondays and Wednesdays at 4:00- 5:15pm with Prof. Jennifer Marshall.

Please see attached course flyer.
ARTH 5565.pdf

Wendy Kline Talk

"Coming Home: Medicine, Midwives and the Transformation of Birth in Late-Twentieth-Century America" will be presented by Wendy Kline from the University of Cincinnati on Friday April 26th, 2013 from 3:30-5:00pm in Carlson 1-135.

Please see attached flyer for more info.
WendyKlineflyer.docx

Call for Proposals:The Newberry Library Seminar on Women and Gender

The Newberry Library Seminar on Women and Gender invites proposals for their 2013-2014 seminar. The seminar's focus is on the United States and North America across all time periods; however, they welcome papers on non-American aspects of the history of women and gender. Open to grad students, independent scholars and faculty. Submission Deadline: April 25th, 2013.

Please see attachment for full details.
W&G CFP 2013-14 copy.pdf

Monday, April 15, 2013

Fulbright Information Sessions scheduled for May and June

The Graduate School Fellowship Office will be holding Fulbright Information Sessions on multiple dates throughout May and June. The UM campus application deadline for the Fulbright is September 4, 2013.

The Graduate School Fellowship Office is pleased to announce four Fulbright Information Sessions for students who are interested in conducting research abroad during the 2014-15 academic year. Excellent opportunities are available to over 155 countries. Applicants must be U.S. citizens. The UM campus application deadline is Wednesday, September 4, 2013.
You may reserve a place at one of the four meetings by clicking on the RSVP links below.
Meetings are scheduled as follows:

  • Wednesday, May 15, 2013
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
101 Walter Library
RSVP for May 15

  • Tuesday, May 21, 2013
10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
101 Walter Library
RSVP for May 21

  • Tuesday, June 4, 2013
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
101 Walter Library
RSVP for June 4

  • Tuesday, June 11, 2013
9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
101 Walter Library
RSVP for June 11

Jensen received MA

Doug Jensen has received his MA. Kale Fajardo and Kevin Murphy, advisers.

The Minnesota Political Theory Colloquium presents Prof. Margaret Kohn

The Minnesota Political Theory Colloquium is proud to present Prof. Margaret Kohn from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. Her presentation titled "The Right to Occupancy and the Right to the City". The Colloquium will be held on Friday April 19th from 1:30-3:00 in Social Sciences Tower room 1314.

When: Friday April 19th from 1:30-3:00pm
Where: Social Sciences 1314

Friday, April 19th the Minnesota Political Theory Colloquium, in conjunction with the Department of Sociology, and with the support of the Coca-Cola Activity Grant, is proud to present Professor Margaret Kohn from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. Her presentation, "The Right to Occupancy and the Right to the City," is part of her work in progress, and she has generously agreed to circulate some reflections that are an extended version of her talk and part of her ongoing work. These reflections are attached, and the abstract is below. The Colloquium will meet from 1:30-3:00 in the Lippincott Room (Social Sciences Tower 1314). Coffee will be served. All are welcome.
Abstract: In a famous scene in Democracy in America, Tocqueville described the removal of the Choctaw Indians as both tragic and inevitable. Since Tocqueville's time, scholars have criticized the normative and legal rationales for the displacement of indigenous communities from traditional lands (Hendrix 2008, Tully 2000, Williams 1990, Pateman and Mills 2007, Turner 2006). Yet other forms of forced removal have not received similar attention. This paper poses the question whether the displacement of urban dwellers from public housing projects or gentrifying neighborhoods should be viewed as unjust. In the literature on indigenous rights, scholars have introduced the concept of "a right to occupancy" (Stilz 2012, Moore 2012, Kolers 2009). The right to occupancy describes a people's right to live in a particular area and is distinct from the right to property or territorial jurisdiction. The right to occupancy seems like a promising way to think about displacement in an urban context. In this paper, I draw on the literature on native land rights in order to examine the whether the theoretical concepts might also illuminate "the right to the city." In order to explore this question I present an overview of some theoretical arguments about the wrong of displacement that were developed to address indigenous land claims. Next, I examine the case of the demolition of the Cabrini-Green housing project in Chicago and highlight some similarities and differences between the indigenous and urban experiences of displacement. Finally, I will conclude that the right to occupancy helps illuminate Henri Lefebvre's provocative but under-theorized call to assert a "right to the city." It also provides a theoretical justification of public policies such as rent stabilization, public housing, and on-site replacement of demolished public housing units.
Please see attached reflections.
Kohn, Right to the City.docx

Friday, April 12, 2013

ICGC Distinguished Public Lecture with Tina Mai Chen

ICGC is hosting a Distinguished Public Lecture titled "Regulating Wartime Migration of Chinese-Burmese in the 1940's: Racial Logics, Patriarchal Records, and International Norms" that will be presented by Tina Mai Chen, Associate Professor of History from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. This lecture will be held on Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 from 3:30-5:30

Please see attached flyer for more info.
TINA CHEN BB FLYER2 (1).pdf

ARTH 3005 "American Art: Paintings You Should Know (And Maybe Love)" Fall 2013

ARTH: 3005 "American Art: Paintings You Should Know (And Maybe Love)" will be taught this fall on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 1:25-3:30 by Prof. Jennifer Marshall.
Please see attached course flyer.
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Please see attachment below for ART 3005: "American Art: Paintings You Should Know (And Maybe Love)".
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Please see attachment right below for ARTH 5565; "American Art of the Gilded Age: or, an exercise of history, big or small".
ARTH 5565.pdf

Mahdi awarded the Francis Maria Fellowship in Arab American Studies for Fall 2013

Current grad student Waleed Mahdi has been awarded the Immigration History Research Center's 2013-2014 Francis Maria Fellowship in Arab American Studies for the Fall 2013 term.

Elaine Challacombe's Retirement Lecture and Reception

Lecture in Honor of Elaine Challacombe's retirement, "A Personal Story of the Blending of Bibliomania and Historical Scholarship" presented by Dr. W. Bruce Fye in honor of Elaine Challacombe's retirement as curator of the Owen H. Wangesteen Historical Library of Medicine. The lecture will be held on Thursday, April 18th at 4:30pm in the Wangensteen Library. Reservations requested.

You are invited to
Elaine Challacombe's retirement reception

You are cordially invited to a lecture by historian of medicine and bibliophile Dr. W. Bruce Fye in honor of Elaine Challacombe's retirement as curator of the Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Medicine. Dr. Fye, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Medical History at the Mayo Clinic, will present, "A Personal Story of the Blending of Bibliomania and Historical Scholarship."
ElaineThursday, April 18, 2013 at 4:30 p.m.
Reception to follow.
Wangensteen Library
568 Diehl Hall
Essex St. S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Online Reservation Requested
Parking and Directions
To honor Elaine and her great contributions to the Wangensteen Collection, we have established the Elaine Challacombe Visiting Scholar Fund. The Challacombe Fund will allow researchers, students, and independent scholars to come to the Wangensteen Library and take advantage of the truly remarkable collections that Elaine has nurtured and developed over her 24 years as curator.
Contribute to the Elaine Challacombe Visiting Scholar Fund
NOTE: Please specify that your gift is in honor of Elaine Challacombe.
Learn more about the fund
Elaine Challacombe has enjoyed a successful career in Rare Books and Special Collections, first at the Strong Museum in Rochester, NY, and later at the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine. Under Elaine's leadership the collection has expanded in scope and content, growing from 30,000 books to approximately 70,000 volumes, many of them valuable and unique items in medical history.
Bruce FyeDr. W. Bruce Fye received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Johns Hopkins, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha. After completing a medical residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, he returned to Hopkins for his cardiology fellowship. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar when he received a master's degree from the Institute of the History of Medicine.
In 1978, Dr. Fye established the echocardiography laboratory at the Marshfield Clinic and was chief of cardiology from 1981 to 1999. He joined the cardiovascular division of the Mayo Clinic in 2000 and is a Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine. He has been director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Medical History since 2006. Dr. Fye is a past president of the American Osler Society (1988-1989), the American College of Cardiology (2002-2003), and the American Association for the History of Medicine (2008-1010). He is the author of more than 200 historical and biographical papers and two books.
For more University Libraries' events, please see their website.

USC two year post-doc Teaching Fellowship accepting applications

Applications are invited for a two-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship beginning Fall 2013 at the University of Southern California. The fellowship focuses on immigrant populations and the potential impact and/or need for Comprehensive Immigration reform (CIR). The fellowship will offer a competitive salary, a yearly $2,000 research allowance, and fringe benefits. Applicants must have completed all requirements for the PhD by mid-August 2013. Review of applications will begin on May, 3rd, 2013.

Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2013-2015
The USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII) and the USC Department of Sociology announce a two-year post-doctoral Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, beginning Fall 2013. The fellowship focuses on immigrant populations and the potential impact and/or need for Comprehensive Immigration reform (CIR) for the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 academic years. While we would prefer a post-doctoral teaching fellow looking at the populations likely to benefit from CIR in order to help us build a research project looking at the longitudinal effects, we would also be open to candidates who would study the politics of change. We would prefer an interdisciplinary researcher who could utilize and teach mixed methods approaches (i.e., both quantitative and qualitative) to Sociology graduates and undergraduates in his/her teaching role. The fellow will teach one course each semester at USC and is expected to conduct research with CSII.
The fellowship will offer a competitive salary, a yearly $2,000 research allowance, and fringe benefits. The fellow must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. by mid-August, 2013.
Review of applications will commence on May 03, 2013, with a decision expected approximately May 17, 2013. To apply, see instructions below.
Please follow the application process and upload the following materials:
  • C.V.
  • Detailed description of the nature of the research to be undertaken during the fellowship period
  • Relevant writing sample of no more than 30 pages, and
  • Contact information for three references (they will be asked to directly submit on your behalf).

Please click here to apply for position.

Click "Search Postings" on the left and use requisition ID: 018495.

Call for Submissions: Enloe Award

Submissions are invited for the 2013 Enloe award, which recognizes exceptional quality in a paper submitted to the International Feminist Journal of Politics by an emergent scholar. The winning entry is published in the journal as the Enloe Award Essay and the author is given an honorarium (currently US$500) on publication. Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2013.

Enloe Award Call for Papers
The International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFjP), in conjunction with Taylor and Francis, created the Enloe Award in honour of Cynthia Enloe's pioneering feminist research into international politics and political economy, and her considerable contribution to building a more inclusive feminist scholarly community. The Award is given annually, after an open competition judged by a committee of eminent feminist scholars drawn from the IFjP Board. It recognizes exceptional quality in a paper submitted to IFjP by an emergent scholar. The winning entry is published in the journal as the Enloe Award Essay and the author is given an honorarium (currently US$500) on publication.
Those eligible for the Award include postgraduate students nearing completion of their Ph.D. at the time of the competition deadline up to five years after their Ph.D. Papers should fall within the rubric of IFjP, which as a journal seeks to publish lively, original research at the intersection of international relations, politics, and women's studies. They should also be no longer than 8000 words, including notes, and conform to the IFjP house style, details at www.tandfonline/rfjp. The deadline for submissions for the Enloe Award 2013 is June 1 2013. Please submit papers to ifjp@ufl.edu, marking them as clearly intended for consideration by the Enloe Award Committee.
Please see attached flyer.
Enloe Award Call.docx

The College of Liberal Arts Office of Information Technology Media Services Fellowship Position

The College of Liberal Arts Office of Information Technology seeks enterprising, technologically savvy graduate students for Media Services Fellow positions for nine-month appointments. These are 50% appointments include tuition remission for fall 2013 and spring 2014 semester. Applications due: Friday, May 3rd, 2013

Please see attachment for more info.
Media_Services_Fellows_Call_2013.pdf

U.S. Midwest University Level Chinese Bridge Speech Contest

The Department of Asian Languages & Literatures is pleased to announce that the University of Minnesota will be hosting the U.S. Midwest University Level Chinese Bridge Speech Contest on Saturday April 27, 2013. Sessions are open to the public.


Please see attached flyer.
Chinese Speech Contest Flyer.pdf

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

American Studies Teaching and Assisting Applications for 2013-14

To apply for a TA-ship next year, please complete the attached application (s). One is a form used to indicate your preference for assisting in the classroom, and the other for teaching. Because assisting positions are limited we recommend that all students who will be ABD next year also apply to the teaching pool. Please feel free to contact Colleen (612-624-1871) with any questions. The deadline for the application is Wednesday, May 1st, 2013.

To apply for a TA-ship next year, please complete the attached application (s). One is a form used to indicate your preference for assisting in the classroom, the other for teaching. To be eligible for the teaching positions you must have passed your preliminary examinations. Because assisting positions are limited we recommend that all students who will be ABD next year also apply to the teaching pool. Please feel free to contact Colleen (612-624-1871) with any questions. The deadline for the application is Wednesday, May 1st, 2013. The processes and selection criteria by which teaching assistant resources are distributed in American Studies are intended to seek balance among the following rationales: curricular needs, programmatic obligations, equity, and merit. The goal of the Department is that every graduate student will, at some point before graduation, have the opportunity to teach his or her own American Studies course. In accordance with University policy, the Chair of the Department ultimately makes staffing decisions.
Click the following attachment for Application for the Teaching Pool in the Department of American Studies Fall 2013, Spring 2014
App Teaching Pool FY13.docx
Click the following attachment for Application for the Department of American Studies Teaching Assistant Pool Fall 2013, Spring 2014
App Assisting Pool FY13.docx

GLBTA Inclusion in the Classroom Survey

GLBTA INCLUSION IN THE CLASSROOM: One of the GLBTA Programs Office's academic initiatives is our involvement with the Leadership Minor's Social Change Project. The survey link is for a group of Leadership Minor students researching the infusion & inclusion of GLBTA identities across academic courses, departments, etc. in order to improve campus climate and in-the-classroom experiences for GLBT and Ally students.

Survey responses are due by 5:00PM on Monday, April 15 - the information received is confidential, and written responses are only seen by the team of 5 students working on this semester project - the team then makes recommendations for further inclusion.
Click here to access the survey.

The American Studies Spring Assembly Meeting

The American Studies Spring Assembly meeting will be held on Monday, April 15th from 3:30 - 5 pm in 105 Scott Hall (the Scott Hall Commons). All students and faculty are invited to attend.

Below is a tentative agenda for the Assembly meeting. If you would like to request that additional items be added to the agenda please email Colleen at henne020@umn.edu with your request. We look forward to seeing you.
American Studies Assembly Meeting
15 April, 2012 3:30 pm 105 Scott Hall
Tentative Agenda
1. Announcements
2. Graduate Recruitment and Placement
3. Discussion on Proposed Speakers' Series
- Black Studies and American Studies at the Crossroads: Racialized Inequalities
- American Studies in the World: Advancing Publicly Engaged Scholarship and Pedagogy

Matthew Schneider-Mayerson speaking at TEDxUMN

Current Grad Student Matthew Schneider-Mayerson will be giving a talk titled "Climate Change, Capitalism, and What's Next?" as a part of a TEDxUMN event titled "Where Do We Go From Here?" on Saturday April 20th. Tickets are required for the event and are almost sold out.

Please click here for registration and more info.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Anthropology Colloquium featuring Jessica Cattelino

Anthropology Department is sponsoring a Colloquium titled "Unsettling Nature in the Everglades" that will deal with Seminole Indians with Prof. Jessica Cattelino, UCLA Department of Anthropology, on Monday, April 15th at 4:00pm in Blegen 235

Anthropology Colloquium Professor Jessica Cattelino, UCLA Dept. of Anthropology "Unsettling Nature in the Everglades" (will deal with Seminole Indians) Date: 04/15/2013
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
When: Mon, April 15, 4:00pm - 5:30pm GMT-05:00
Where: Blegen 235
Cost: Free
Contact:
Name: Marjorie Schalles
E-mail: magid001@umn.edu
Phone: 4-6579
Sponsored by: Anthropology, Anthropology
Reservation Information: No reservations needed. No charge for Colloquium.
Disability Options:To request disability accommodations, please contact Disability Services.
Professor Cattelino received her Ph. D. degree from New York University. Her research interests include: Sociocultural anthropology, citizenship and sovereignty, indigeneity and settler colonialism, economy and value, gender, environment, American public culture, Indian gaming; United States, Native North America.
Her CV is attached.
CVCattelino.pdf
Please see attachment for schedule.
Cattelino Itinerary.docx

Mitchell accepts position at SUNY College at Old Westbury

Current grad student Jasmine Mitchell has accepted a position as an assistant professor of American Studies and Media Studies at SUNY College at Old Westbury.

IAS Brown Bag Talk with Jennifer Brier

The Institute for Advanced Study is sponsoring a brown bag lunch with Jennifer Brier on Friday, April 19th from 12-1pm in 125 Nolte. Prof. Brier will talk about History Moves, a mobile and community-co-curated public history project she leads at the University of Illinois - Chicago

Please click here for more info.

ICGC Brown Bag Talk presented by Roozbeh Shirazi

ICGC is hosting "A Matastasizing Foreign Policy? Civil Rights, Education, and Transnational Citizenship under the Iran Sanctions Regime". This talk will be presented by Roozbah Shirazi on Friday, April 12th at 12 noon in 537 Heller Hall.

ICGC Brown Bag
"A Metastasizing Foreign Policy? Civil Rights, Education, and Transnational Citizenship under the Iran Sanctions Regime"
Presented by: Roozbeh Shirazi, Postdoctoral Associate,
Comparative & International Development Education and College of Education and Human Development
-The Iran Sanctions program is a focal point of U.S. foreign policy towards Iran. Often lauded as an alternative to military action, the sanctions have become increasingly strict during the Obama Administration, and are being used to pressure the Iranian government to stop uranium enrichment for its nuclear program. Thus far, the sanctions have not yet yielded intended effects: the Iranian government has not ceased enrichment, and there are growing reports of a humanitarian crisis unfolding in Iran. Less examined are the lived experiences and transnational effects of the Iran sanctions, which increasingly target Iranian nationals and US citizens of Iranian origin both inside and outside of Iran. This presentation examines how an increasingly mobile discourse of "Iran sanctions" has implication for education, development, civil rights, national identity, and citizenship. As this is a work "under construction," the aim is to elicit critical discussion reflection on theoretical and methodological next steps.
Friday, April 12, 2013
12:00 noon, 537 Heller Hall

WAM ArtWords Awards Ceremony and Reception

The Weisman Art Museum is hosting the ArtWords Awards Ceremony and Reception on Wednesday, April 10th from 6-8pm.

Please click here for more info.

Department of Geography, Environment and Socitey's annual Brown Day Lecture

Please save the date for the Department of Geography, Environment and Society's annual Brown Day Lecture on Friday, Mar 3rd from 3:30-5:30pm, in Honeywell Auditorium. Prof. William J. Cronon will be presenting his talk titled "The Portage: Reflections on Nature, History, and Storytelling in the Making of an American Place."

This year they are honored to have William J. Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His talk is titled, "The Portage: Reflections on Nature, History and Storytelling in the Making of an American Place."
More information:
In a lecture based on the opening chapter of the book he is writing on the history of Portage, Wisconsin, environmental historian William Cronon meditates on the role of memory and storytelling in the complicated ways human beings construct their individual and collective sense of place. A natural ecosystem or an abstract geographical space becomes a human place, he argues, through the endless accretion of narratives that render that place meaningful for those who visit or live in it. Portage is an especially interesting community in which to explore this idea, since it was the home town of Frederick Jackson Turner, the American historian who authored the famous "frontier thesis." It was also the town into whose hinterland John Muir migrated as an eleven-year-old boy from Scotland, and the town where Aldo Leopold's "Shack," famed subject of the book A Sand County Almanac, is located. Although virtually unknown to most Americans, few places have played so central a role in shaping our national ideas of nature.
The talk will be held on May 3, 2013 from 3:30-5:30pm in the Honeywell Auditorium (L-110), Carlson Building, University of Minnesota.
The Department of Geography, Environment, and Society hope to see you there!

Book orders for Fall 2013 courses are due to Melanie (stein196@umn.edu) by Wednesday, April 24

Book orders for Fall 2013 courses are due to Melanie (stein196@umn.edu) by Wednesday, April 24. Please continue reading for the order form, bookstore ordering guidelines, and notes that help process your order and obtain desk copies.


Notes from staff:
-Please complete one book order form for each course, and email your order as an attachment to stien196@umn.edu by April 24, 2013.
-Let us know whether or not you need a personal desk copy. We will be requesting copies for your TAs.
- We submit a request to the publisher for desk copies after we receive your completed order form. It can take weeks to obtain desk copies, so the earlier you submit your order, the earlier you and your TAs will have copies of the books. Please only request desk copies of titles for which you have not previously received desk copies. Desk copies cannot be guaranteed for faculty and instructors if the deadline for book orders is not met.
-If your course is cross-listed, include all department names on your order form so that all sections of the course will have books ordered.
- Include the ISBN of the edition you want . If the ISBN is incorrect, you may end up with a different edition of the book.
-If you are NOT ordering books or ordering a packet instead, be sure to let Melanie know.
Bookstore guidelines:
-Submitting book orders before Finals Week of the current semester gives the bookstore the opportunity to pay students the best price for their books during buyback.
- If you delete or change books for your course after they have shipped from the publisher, your research account will be charged for return fees.
-If know you will be using a book in the future, please indicate when that is. This allows the bookstore to plan to purchase used copies, saving students money.
- Be sure to specify whether the book is Required (R) or Optional (O).
Please use this order form:
Blank Book Order Form.doc

Friday, April 5, 2013

David K. Johnson Talk on Friday, April 19th

David K. Johnson from the University of South Florida will present "Buying Gay: Consumer Culture and Community Before Stonewall." This talk will be held on Friday, April 19th from 2:30-4:00pm in Scott Hall 105.

Please see attached flyer.
DKJohnsonflyerNew.docx

Scripting the Shoah: The Holocaust in Moroccan Official and Public Discourses

THE CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES is co-sponsoring Scripting the Shoah: The Holocaust in Moroccan Official and Public Discourses, a lecture presented by Assistant Prof. Aomar Boum from the University of Arizona. This lecture will be held on Thursday, April 11th, 2013 at 5:30pm in 1210 Heller Hall.

Event: Scripting the Shoah: The Holocaust in Moroccan Official and Public Discourses. A lecture by Aomar Boum, assistant professor, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies and Religious Studies Program, University of Arizona
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013
Time: 5:30pm
Location: 1210 Heller Hall, West Bank
Description:
Since the end of WWII, the Holocaust has been a prominent issue in Arab political and intellectual discourse. Although this issue has largely played out in Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, it has also been an integral part of the North African debate in general and the Moroccan anti-Israeli and Zionist discussions in particular by the early years of Independence.
Using archival material and ethnographic interviews, Professor Boum will argue that North African and Moroccan perspectives about the Holocaust are part of what he calls the durable structures of acceptance and minimization. Using Bourdieu's habitus, Boum claims that Moroccan debates about the Holocaust have been framed and ossified in a context of social and political pre-dispositions of minimization of the Holocaust generating typological and conflicting scripts. Therefore, when individuals go against the grain and question this habitus, they are perceived as going against the principles of regular continuity that has governed the Arab/Moroccan critique of Israeli policies towards Palestinians.
Dr. Aomar Boum was born and raised in the oasis of Mhamid, Foum Zguid (Province of Tata, southern Morocco). As a socio-cultural anthropologist, his main research focuses on how Moroccan Muslims remember, picture, and construct Jewishness and Moroccan Judaism. Dr. Boum has written a number of entries on the Jews of southern Morocco in The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World; he also published on ethnic folk dances and nationalism, traditional Islamic and modern education, as well as on hip-hop and youth dissent in Morocco, and youth culture.
He is currently working on a manuscript, Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco, as well as journal articles on Moroccan Jews in national movies and the national debate regarding the status of Moroccan Jews in national newspapers.
Please see attached flyer.
Boumfinal.pdf

Sponsored by: The Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study.

Career Networking Breakfast for Students and Post- Doctoral Researchers

The Graduate School is co-sponsoring an U of MN Career Networking Breakfast for Students and Post-Doctoral Researchers on Friday April 12th, 2013 from 9:00-11:30 am in The Commons Hotel, Ballroom.

Click here for registration and more info.
For a list of registered employers, please click here.

Cartwright will be joining the American Studies Program at UC Davis

Ryan Lee Cartwright, PhD '12, has accepted an ACLS New Faculty Fellowship and will be joining the American Studies Program at UC Davis.

4th Annual La Academia del Pueblo Conference

The Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies at Wayne State is hosting its yearly La Academia del Pueblo conference. This two day event will bring together undergraduate and graduate scholars, activists, corporate sponsors, and community members to engage in conversations around the historical trajectory of colonization in the Americas and the impact that has had on Latin Americans and U.S. Latinos today. This conference will be held on April 19th-20th in Detroit, Michigan.

Friday, April 19th, 2013 they will be hosting a film screening of Harvest of Empire. Here is a link to the trailer: http://harvestofempiremovie.com/
Saturday, April 20th, 2013 will be the conference with academic, professional and community panels. Here is a link for the agenda and the RSVP page: http://events.wayne.edu/rsvp/4thacademiadelpueblo/
Please see attached flyer.
LaAcademiaFlyer (1).pdf

New DVDs at University Libraries

Nancy Herther has a new list of DVDs for the collection in Walter Smart Learning Commons.

For complete list of DVDs, please see attachment.
NewVideoList.413.pdf

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

The Women's Student Activist Collective's Revolutionary Art Thing (RATH)

The Women's Student Activist Collective is sponsoring a series of events that are a part of their Revolutionary Art Thing (RATH). In the month of April, there are four events beginning with the first on April 11th and the last one on April 22nd.

See attachment for schedule.
narratives_02.pdf

Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies GRPP Summer 2013 Fellowship

Applications are invited for the 2013 Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies Summer GRPP Fellowships. There will be two fellowships awarded. The Ethnic Studies Fellowships are an award of $4000 and are intended to support the research of graduate students in CLA who seek to work with faculty mentors in African-American Studies, American Indian Studies, Chicano & Latino Studies and Asian American Studies. Application deadline: Friday, May 3rd, 2013.

The Departments of African and African American Studies, American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, and Chicano and Latino Studies are pleased to announce that there will be two Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies Summer GRPP Fellowships in 2013. The CLA Ethnic Studies Summer Fellowship is a $4000 award that will be paid over five pay periods during the summer.
Focus:
This program seeks to foster an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural community of faculty and graduate students committed to studying and teaching various subject in ethnic studies. The Ethnic Studies Fellowships, like the CLA Graduate Research Partnering Program (GRPP), are intended to support the research of graduate students in CLA who seek to work with faculty mentors in African-American Studies, American Indian Studies, Chicano & Latino Studies and Asian American Studies.
Application and deadline:
A completed application and proposal must be submitted to CCC@umn.edu by Friday May 3rd.
Selection Process:
A committee of faculty from the host departments will review applications and determine awards based on eligibility and merit of the submitted proposals.
Eligibility:
Recipients of the CLA Ethnic Summer Fellowships are not eligible for other internal fellowships during summer 2013 (e.g. CLA GRPP Fellowships, CLA DOVE Summer Fellowships, Graduate School Dissertation Fellowships, department fellowships). As a condition of the award, recipients may not register for courses during the summer term and may only hold up to a 25% appointment during the summer.
Reporting Requirements:
Each Ethnic Studies Fellowship recipient must submit a 1-3 page progress report to CLA that includes the current status of the project and plans for conference presentations, publications, or exhibits that may result from the partnership by August 28, 2013.

History of Medicine Lecture Series with Director of "United in Anger: ACT-UP and Politics of HIV/AIDS"

HMED is co-sponsoring an event with clips from the documentary "United in Anger: ACT-UP and Politics of HIV/AIDS" and a discussion with Director Jim Hubbard, Prof. Jennifer Brier and Keith Henry, MD as a part of their History of Medicine lecture series. This event will take place on Thursday, April 18th at 6:30pm in Nicholson 275.

Please see attached flyer for more info.
4.18.13 United in Anger.pdf

ICGC Distinguished Public Lecture

ICGC is hosting a Distinguished Public Lecture titled "Making spaces for Nature: Ecology and democracy in contemporary India" that will be presented by Mahesh Rangarajan, Director at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and Professor in Modern Indian History at the University of Delhi, Delhi. The lecture will be on Monday April 8th, 2013 from 3:30pm-5:30pm in 1210 Heller Hall.

Please see attached flyer.
Rangarajan Poster.pdf

Intramural teams that will be organized by Prof. Kale B. Fajardo

Professor Kale B. Fajardo is interested in organizing and/or coaching faculty-grad-students intramural teams and pick-up games (various sports/let's decide together) for next fall/spring semesters. If you are interested in participating, please email him at: kfajardo@umn.edu -- He anticipates that AMST teams will be open to faculty and grad students from allied departments and programs -- e.g. GWSS and all the Ethnic Studies Programs at UMN -- so help spread the word!

New Books at University Libraries

New books at University Libraries: Nancy Herther has created a list of new books that support teaching, learning and research.

For complete list, please click attachment below.
NewBooksList.413.pdf

ICGC Brown Bag Talk presented by Valerie Were

Valerie Were will present a Brown Bag discussion "Monitoring and Evaluating Non-governmental Organization Water Projects: Lessons from 3 Organizations in western Kenya" as a part of the ICGC Brown Bag Series. This talk will be held Friday April 5th at 12:00 noon in 537 Heller Hall.

Please see attached flyer.
Valerie Were.pdf

Monday, April 1, 2013

The Center for Austrian Studies presents The Future's Past

The Center for Austrian Studies presents The Future's Past, a documentary focusing on Cambodia today seen through the eyes of three Cambodian youths and their families by Susan Brandstätter on April 3rd, 2013 at 7:00pm in Bell Auditorium. There will be a Q&A session after the film presented by Brandstätter and moderated by Alejandro Baer, director for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.



THE FUTURE'S PAST focuses on Cambodia today, seen through the eyes of three Cambodian youths and their families: one living in Phnom Penh, one in the country, far from the globalized centers of the world, and one in Paris. The film reveals the emotional, physical and intellectual impact that the Khmer Rouge Tribunal has on the youngsters their families, and the Cambodian people. After thirty years of silence, the past atrocities will be discusses publicly on TV: five senior Khmer Rouge leaders will be held accountable the deaths of 1.7 million people. Among them is S-21 prison warden Kaung Guek Eav, alias Duch, who will be tries by an international tribunal. However, in a society where relatives, friends, and neighbors belonged to the thousands of perpetrators the burning questions is: Why? Each youth goes on a quest to find out his or her own personal answer.

Dillon accepts Assistant Professor Position

Current Grad Student Steve Dillon has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Queer Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Coffe Talk Hour: "Anthropogenesis: Origins and Endings in the Anthropogenic"

A Coffee Talk hosted by the Department of Geography, Environment and Society titled "Anthropogenesis: Origins and Endings in the Anthropogenic" will be given by Kathryn Yusoff, Lecturer in Nonhuman Geography at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University. This talk will be held in Carlson 1-123 beginning at 3:30 on April 7th.

Abstract: This lecture will address how the Anthropocene contains within it a form of Anthropogenesis--a new origin story and imagined ending for "Man"--a genesis that names a fossil-fuelled creature of geomorphological capabilities, operating at the scale of the planet. How are we to understand this new geologic subjectivity, its temporal, material and spatial horizons? How does the designation of a unitary geologic humanity fail to acknowledge gross differences in responsibility for Anthropogenic climate change? In contrast to the socially undifferentiated geomorphising of the Anthropocene, I will suggest some points of departure for thinking a more nuanced and differentiated "Geologic Life".
The talk will be held in Carlson 1-123 beginning at 3:30. Complimentary refreshments and coffee will be served at 3:15.
*Please note the room change from the usual Coffee Hour location*
Please See Attached Flyer.
yusoff coffee hour.pdf

Global REM presents Lucy Salyer

IHRC's Global Race, Ethnicity, and Migration lecture seriespresents "'A Citizen Should Be A Citizen Wherever He Goes': Naturalizes Americans and the Transatlantic Crisis over Citizenship in the 1860's" on Thursday, April 4th from 12:00-1:00pm in 308 Andersen Library. The talk will be presented by Lucy Salyer, Associate Professor in History at the University of New Hampshire.


Please see attached flyer for more info.
flyer_Salyer.4.4.pdf