Faculty

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.