The Center for Race and Ethnicity is pleased to announce the Spring schedule for its Sawyer Seminar on Race, Place and Space in the Americas in its entirety.
Conference locations are listed. Programs will be announced shortly. All works-in-progress sessions meet at 1:00pm at the Rutgers CRE, 191 College Avenue, 1st Floor, New Brunswick. For copies of the papers, please contact Mia Kissil at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Race, Place and Nature Works-in-Progress Meetings:
1/23 Kyla Schuller (Women’s & Gender Studies, Rutgers-NB) - Orphans of Progress: The Child Migrants of the Lower East Side. Commentator: Alison Miller (History, Rutgers-NB)
2/6 Lyra Monteiro (History Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers-Newark) – Temples to White Mastery: Classical Plantation Landscapes and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early American Republic. Commentator: Ann Fabian (CRE/History, Rutgers-NB)
2/20 Ashley Falzetti (CRE/Women’s & Gender Studies, Rutgers-NB) – The White Rose and an Old Tree: Keeping Rhetorics of Indigeneity in Place. Commentator: Alison Bernstein (Director, Institute for Women’s Leadership, Rutgers-NB)
3/6 Roosbelinda Cárdenas (CRE Postdoctoral Associate, Rutgers-NB) – Lay Encounters With Molecular Ancestry: Narratives Of Nation, Race, and Genetics in Colombia. Commentator: Catherine Lee (Sociology, Rutgers-NB)
3/8 Conference on Race, Place and Nature Van Dyke Hall, Room 301, CAC
Presenters include: Chris Anderson, (Native Studies, University of Alberta); Juanita de Barros (History, McMaster University); Ann Fabian (History, Rutgers-NB); Jared Farmer (History, SUNY-Stonybrook); Rebecca Ginsberg (Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois-Urbana Champagne); Melissa A. Johnson (Anthropology/Environmental Studies, Southwestern University); Renisa Mawani (Sociology, University of British Columbia); Natalia Molina (History, University of California-San Diego); Samuel K. Roberts (History, Columbia University); Anadelia Romo (History, Texas State University); Melissa N. Stein (Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky); Ellen Stroud (Environmental Problems and Policy, Bryn Mawr College); Amar Wahab (Sociology, York University)
Cities, Towns and Suburbs Works-in-Progress Meetings
3/27 Kartikeya Saboo (CRE/Anthropology, Rutgers-NB) - The Unpoliced Line: "There" and Here in a Class-Divided Urban Neighborhood. Commentator: Beryl Satter (History, Rutgers-Newark)
4/10 Shatema Threadcraft (Political Science/Women’s & Gender Studies, Rutgers-NB) – Black Feminist Spatial Justice: The Geographic Implications of Empowering Black Women within Social Reproduction. Commentator – Linda Bosniak, School of Law, Rutgers-Camden
4/24 Timothy Stewart-Winter (History, Rutgers-Newark) – Putting the AIDS Crisis in Its Place: Public Health, Neoliberalism, and Urban History. Commentator: Seth Koven (History, Rutgers-NB)
5/1 Louis Prisock (Africana Studies, Rutgers-NB) – Suburban Dreams?: Race, Suburbia, and African Americans. Commentator: Alvin Tillery (Political Science, Rutgers-NB)
5/2-3 Conference on Cities, Towns and Suburbs Alexander Library, CAC
Keynote: Douglas Massey (Sociology, Princeton University) - Author of Brokered Boundaries: Creating Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times (2010)
Presenters Include: Guadalupe Garcia (History, Tulane University); Andrew Friedman (History, Haverford College), Su’ad Abdul Khabeer (Anthropology, Purdue University); Davarian Baldwin (American Studies, Trinity College); Wendy Cheng (Asian Pacific-American Studies, Arizona State University); Joshua Guild (History, Princeton); Scott Kurishige (American Culture, University of Michigan); Karen B. Murray (Political Science, York University); Ellen Wu (History, University of Indiana); Andrew Sandoval-Strausz (History, University of New Mexico); Tristan Cabello (American Studies, American University); Zaire Dinzey-Flores (Sociology, Rutgers-NB); Marisa Fuentes (Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers-NB); Beryl Satter (History, Rutgers-Newark)
191 College Avenue, 1st Floor