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Graduate student and History Department Graduate Teaching Assistant S.L. Ivey is Charlotte’s 2024 Golden Niner. He was selected from the prestigious Niner 9 and is the fourth student to be named in this young annual tradition. S.L. Ivey credits the second Charlotte Golden Niner, Raquan Leary ‘22 for sparking his interests to apply to Niner […]
Public History student Amy Zytka and Scott Warren, site manager at James K Polk, have won a Digital Humanities award from the Southeastern Museum Conference for their website’s Digital Resources, featuring the Polk Family Cemetery website–a project that Amy originated during her internship at the James K Polk historic site last summer. She will also […]
Congratulations to Dr. Jason Newton! His book, Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest, appeared this October 2024 with the West Virginia University Press. Summary: What happened to the loggers of America’s past when lumbermen moved west and south in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How did these communities continue to create […]
Congratulations to Dr. Ella Fratantuono who won the SERMEISS 2024 Award for her book chapter: “Colonization, Territorialization, and Displacement in Ottoman Migration Policy, 1856-1918.” Abstract: This chapter considers the themes of expulsion and colonization within the Ottoman immigration story. The Ottoman Empire does not figure prominently in histories of empire and colonization, yet it offers […]
Congratulations also to Tina whose book Detention Empire got a nice shout out from Teen Vogue in an op-ed by Barbara Sostaita, “Migrant Crime Narratives are Really About Excluding Immigrants and Asylum Seekers.” Detention Empire Awards & distinctions: Honorable Mention, 2023 First Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society The early 1980s marked a critical […]
Congratulations to Dr. Jurgen Buchenau whose pedagogical/digital humanities project has been published! It is available in English and Spanish and is a companion to his 2013 book and 2022 document reader that includes Jurgen’s article, “Mexico’s Revolutionary Experiments, 1910-1940.”
The latest issue of The Latin Americanist just came out, and our former student and colleague Maria Labbato has an article out! A great review of Jurgen’s new book also appeared in this issue. The links work through Project Muse. The Latin Americanist, Volume 68, Number 3, September 2024 Abstract US-born Janet Riesenfeld (1914–1998), known […]
Tina Shull’s book, Detention Empire (pub date Oct 4, 2022) is landing in mailboxes! She also has an essay in the anthology Abolition Feminisms, vol. I published in Haymarket Books in August.