Princeton University

Fall 2012

Monday, September 24, 12:00-1:20,  127 East Pyne
Lisa Ford, Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of New South Wales
The Legal History of the Pacific?
Cosponsored by the Program in Law and Public Affairs

Monday, October 1, 12:00-1:20,  127 East Pyne
Ken Kersch, Associate Professor of Political Science, History, and Law at Boston College
Beyond Segregationist Subterfuge: Stories About Federalism in Postwar Conservative Constitutionalism
Cosponsored by the American Political History Series and the Program in Law and Public Affairs
 

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Spring 2012

Vogue and Ephemera
Brad Evans, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University
Cosponsored by the Department of English
 

Fall 2011

Apostles of Race: Religion and Black Racial Identity in the Urban North, 1920-1950
Judith Weisenfeld, Professor of Religion, Princeton University

Where Property Meets Poetry: Experiments in the Digital Humanities with William Byrd II and Susan Howe's "Histories of the Dividing Line"
Sarah Luria, Department of English, College of the Holy Cross

Spring 2011

Fall 2010

From Megan's Law to Bernie Madoff: A Conversation with Judge Denny Chin '75 
The Honorable Denny Chin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Cosponsored with the Program in Law and Public Affairs

Fall 2009

From Appomattox to Juneteenth:  African American Commemoration of Lee's Surrender and the End of Slavery
Elizabeth R. Varon, Professor of History and Associate Director, Center for the Humanities, Temple University

Musical Recourses, Mystical Qualities: Cuba Linda Lifts the Studies Protocol
Alexandra Vazquez, Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies

Tolstoy's Rabbi,  American Progressivism and Jewish Agriculture:  A First Look at Dr. Joseph Krauskopf and the Founding of the National Farm School
Rabbi Lance Sussman, Visiting Professor of Religion and Senior Rabbi, Congregation Keneseth Israel
Cosponsored with the Program in Judaic Studies

Women at Arms: The Female Shape of the All-Volunteer Force
Elizabeth Hillman, Professor of Law, Hastings College of the Law, University of California and Lizette Alvarez, National Correspondent, The New York Times
Cosponsored with the Program in the Study of Women and Gender

Our Father: School Prayer and the Challenges of Interfaith Politics
Neil Young, Lecturer in History

Cuisine du Terroir (Regional Cooking), at home and abroad
Amy Trubek, Food Anthropologist and Assistant Professor, Nutrition and Food Science, University of Vermont

Adrift in the Archives: Venturing into the Backstage of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jonathan Rieder, Professor of Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia University
Cosponsored with the Center for African American Studies

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Spring 2010

Instead of Waiting for the Thirteenth Amendment: War Power, Slave Marriage, and Inviolate Human Rights
Amu Dru Stanley, Associate Professor of History, University of  Chicago

Confederate Reckoning:  Arming Slaves in the C.S.A.
Stephanie McCurry, University of Pennsylvania

Disability, Anti-Professionalism, and Civil Rights: The National Federation of the Blind and the ‘Right to Organize’ in the 1950s
Felicia Kornbluh, Director, Women's and Gender Studies Program and Associate Professor of History, University of Vermont

Campfire Talk: The Los Angeles Urban Rangers Enact the Megalopolis
Jenny Price, writer, history Ph.D., Los Angeles Urban Ranger

Notes on an Iconoclasm: Aesthetic Spoliation and the American Practice of War in the Province of Manila, 1899
JoAnne Mancini, Department of History, National University of Ireland Maynooth and Visitor, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study

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FALL 2008

Jackson Lears, Board of Governors Professor of History, Rutgers University and Eric Rauchway, Professor of History, University of California-Davis.
New Narratives for the Century's Turn: Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Sam Freedman, Professor of Journalism, Columbia University
The Big Game: Football and Freedom in the Civil Rights South - focusing on the 1967 football season at Grambling and Florida A&M

Leigh Bienen, Senior Lecturer, Northwestern University School of Law and Director, Chicago Historical Homicide Project
The Life and Times of Florence Kelley, Factory Inspector in Chicago, 1890-1899: 55,000 Documents and the Challenges of the Digital Age

John Palattella, Literary Editor, The Nation
Book Reviews are Dying, Long Live Book Reviews: Literary Journalism Today

Josh Kun, Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC 
The Treasure Hunt of Tradition: Re-visiting the archives of Jewish-American music

Barbara Welke, Professor of Law and Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota
No One Thought Children Might Die: Owning Hazard in the Twentieth Century U.S. Consumer Economy

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SPRING 2009
 
Susan Coutin, Professor, Department of Criminology, Law, and Society and Department of Anthropology, University of California-Irvine and Director, UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture
Citizenship and Membership at Odds?  Legal Histories of One-and-a-half Generation Salvadoran Migrants

Jose Emmanuel Raymundo, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for African American Studies
Unbreakable Cord: Dogs, Lepers and Other Colonial Animals in the US Occupied Philippines

April Masten, Associate Professor of American History,  Stony Brook University (SUNY)
'Man and Money Ready': Challenge Dancing in Antebellum America

Emily Thompson, Professor, Department of History
'Two Turntables and a Microphone': The Curious Proto-History of D.J. Technology

Eduardo Canedo, Link-Cotsen Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and Lecturer, Department of History
George Stigler, Ralph Nader, and the Ideological Origins of American Deregulation, 1962-1973

Christine Desan, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Making Money:  the Measure of the Market Reconsidered

Jennifer R. Uhlmann, Washington University in St. Louis, History Department
Reflections on the Historiography of the Civil Rights Movement

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FALL 2007

Dan Tarlock, Distinguished Professor of Law, Chicago Kent College of Law
Anatomy of a Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology and Dirty Politics 

Bonnie Martin, The Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition, Yale University
Poetry and Peril: Mortgaging Slaves in 18^th- and 19^th-Century America

Kimberly Smith, Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities
Understanding Environmental Justice 

Catherine Fisk, Douglas Blount Maggs Professor of Law, Duke University
Attribution, Intellectual Property, and Professional Reputation in the 20^th Century 

Melani McAlister, Visiting Fellow, Davis Center for Historical Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies and International Affairs, George Washington University and Marie Griffith, Professor of Religion and Director, Program in the Study of Women and Gender
Religion and Politics in Contemporary America

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SPRING 2008

Imani Perry, Visiting Professor of Center for African American Studies and Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law-Camden
Exceptionally Yours: Racial Escape Hatches in Contemporary U.S. Culture

Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita
Was Marie White?: The Trajectory of a Question in the United States

Jonathan Sarna, Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University
The Mystical World of Colonial American Jews: From Colonial Judaism to American Judaism

Lisbeth Haas, Visiting Fellow, History and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies and Associate Professor, History, University of California-Santa Cruz
Politically Defeated but with Power: The writing of Luiseño Indian Scholar Pablo Tac,  l821-41

Joshua Dubler, Visiting Instructor of Religion, Haverford College
Religious Practice in a Maximum Security Prison

Scott Deveaux, Associate Professor,  McIntire Department of Music, University of Virginia
"Fusion" as an Alternative Narrative for Jazz History
 

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FALL 2006

David Treuer, novelist, essayist and Associate Professor of Literature, University of Minnesota
Culture as Style in Native American Literature

Robert Gordon, Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History, Yale Law School
The Legal Profession, 1870-2000

Sarah Whiting, Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory
Thinking Big:  Chicago's Modern Urbanism

David Ball, English Department
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Failure, and American Modernism

Chin Jou, Department of History
"Your Stomach Must Be Disciplined:" Lulu Hunt Peters and the beginnings of Calorie-Counting in Corporeal Self-Regulation, 1886-1924

Peter Nabokov, Visiting Professor of the Council of the Humanities, Stewart Fellow in Anthropology; World Arts and Culture and American Indian Studies, UCLA
A Life Behind a Myth:  The Passages of Edward Proctor Hunt

Rachael Z. DeLue, Department of Art and Archaeology
Diagnosing Pictures and the Science of Seeing in America circa 1900

Thorin Tritter, Department of History
Carving a Different Path: New York City’s Newspaper Industry and their Business Model, 1830-1930

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SPRING 2007 

Elizabeth Crist, Assistant Professor of Music
"Of Rage and Remembrance," Music, and Memorials:  The Work of Mourning in John Corigiano's Symphony No. 1 (1989)

Alec Dun, Lecturer in History
Elizabeth Drinker's Haitian Revolution

Michael Kammen, Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture, Cornell University
How the Mall in Washington Became the Nation's Most Venerated Civic Space 

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FALL 2005

Laura Stark, Department of Sociology
Changing the Subject:  The Science and Ethics of Deception in American Psychology, 1966-1973

Randall Bauer, Department of Music
A Certain State of Surrender:  Toward a Jarrettian Landscape of Spontaneity

Jennifer Legath, Department of Religion
For Love or Money:  Deaconesses, Consecration, and Cold, Hard Cash

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SPRING 2006

Joanna Dyl, Department of History
"The Class War is Raging:"  San Francisco After the 1906 Earthquake

Danielle Elliott, Department of English
Middle Passage Sensibilities in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton

Prof. Daniel Richter, University of Pennsylvania, Department of History
Two Medieval Civilizations

Kyoko Sato, Department of Sociology
It's Like Any Other Food:  How Genetically Modified Food Has Become Normalized in the United States

Craig Barton Upright, Department of Sociology
The Rural-Urban Connection in Co-operative Food Movements

Belinda Huang, Department of History
Redefining Chineseness in the Trans-Pacific Community:  Curriculum and Activities of Chinese-language Schools in San Francisco, 1907-1919

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Fall 2004

Laura Clawson, Department of Sociology
Going Hollywood:  Participation, Performance, and the Commercialization of Sacred Harp Music

Thorin Tritter, Department of History and Program in American Studies
New York's Newspaper Buildings:  The Fall of Park Row and the Rise of Modern Journalism

Christopher Roy, Department of Anthropology
"Canadian Indians":  Histories of Abenaki Residence Off the Reserve and South of the Border

Jennifer Greeson, Department of English
Expropriating The Great South:  Global Imaginaries of the First Reconstruction

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SPRING 2005

Traci Schlesinger, Department of Sociology
The Limits of Colorblind Anti-Discrimination Law:  An Empirical Assessment of Determinate Sentencing Policies

Drew Levy, Department of History
Recovering the Folklore of the Camera:  MoMa's "The American Snapshot" (1944) in Historical Perspective

Bryan Shelly, Department of Politics
Gold Towns and Shark Pools:  The Effect of School Finance Reform on Vermont's School Boards

Mariah Zeisberg, Department of Politics
Interbranch Conflict and Constitutional Fidelity:  A Relational Understanding of Executive War Power

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FALL 2003

Carol Sanger, Columbia Law School
Compelling Narrative:  Judicial By-Pass Hearings and the Misuse of Law

Margaret L. Usdansky, Department of Sociology and the School of Population Research, Princeton University
Defining Harm:  Depictions of Single-Parent Families in U.S. Magazines, 1900-1998

Tamar Zinguer, School of Architecture, Princeton University
The Toy, Charles and Ray Eames, 1951

Elizabeth Boyle Machlan, Department of English, Princeton University
'Do We Need All That Space?': Architecture and Anxiety in Henry James' "The
Jolly Corner" and David Fincher's "Panic Room"

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SPRING 2004

Linda Gordon, Stone Visiting Professor of History
The Photography of Dorothea Lange and Diane Arbus:
Political Culture, Gender Studies

Brooke Blower, Department of History
Politics on Parade:  The American Legion Returns to Paris

Nicole Sackley, Department of History
Take-off Dreams:  American Social Scientists and the Promise of India, 1947-1961

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