Modern America Workshop
2011-2012
Spring 2012
A Roundtable on the Historical Study of Criminal Law
Monday, February 6, 2012
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
211 Dickinson Hall
GERRY CADAVA , Northwestern University
Author of The Heat of Exchange: Latinos and Migration in the Making of a Sunbelt Borderland (forthcoming)
RISA GOLUBOFF, UVA School of Law
Author of The Lost Promise of Civil Rights (2007)
MICHAEL WILLRICH, Brandeis University
Author of City of Courts (2003) & Pox: An American History (2011)
Moderator: Sarah A. Seo, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Princeton
Pre-circulated essays will be available in Dickinson Hall
Co-sponsored by Program in American Studies and LAPA
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
12:00-1:15 p.m.
210 Dickinson Hall
TOMIKO BROWN-NAGIN
UVA School of Law
"Lawyers, the Grassroots, and Social Change:
Constance Baker Motley at the Bar and on the Bench"
Co-sponsored by CAAS and the Graduate School of Academic Affairs & Diversity
Thursday, April 12, 2012
4:30-6:00 p.m.
211 Dickinson Hall
CANCELED
REGINA KUNZEL
University of Minnesota
"In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality"
Co-sponsored by GSS and the Program in American Studies
April, 26, 2012
12:00-1:15 p.m.
210 Dickinson Hall
HENRY COWLES
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Princeton University
Fall 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
210 Dickinson Hall
12 - 1:15 p.m.
SARAH MILOV
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Princeton University
"How the New Deal Created the Tobacco Lobby"
Commentator: Ronny Regev
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Princeton University
The pre-circulated paper will be available in the History Graduate Lounge, outside the Faculty Lounge, or by contacting aejinseo@princeton.edu.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
211 Dickinson Hall
CHERYL HICKS
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Author of "Talk With You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935"
Will address prominent themes in her text, for
two chapters of the book, click here
Moderator: Tikia Hamilton
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Princeton University
Co-sponsored by the Center of African American Studies and the Graduate School Office of Academic Affairs and Diversity
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
12:00 - 1:15 p.m.
210 Dickinson Hall
RONNY REGEV
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Princeton University
“The Best of Both Worlds”: How Screenwriters Learned to Write and Rewrite in Hollywood
Commentator, Sarah Milov
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Princeton University