The History Department at Rutgers–Camden announces its Lees Seminar for 2024-2025, where scholars present cutting-edge research in progress through pre-circulated papers. Seminars open with an author’s introduction and a formal comment, followed by discussion and light refreshments. This series is supported by an endowment gift from Professor Andrew Lees.
Unless otherwise noted, the Lees Seminar is held in the first-floor seminar room of 429 Cooper Street at 4 pm. Maps and directions are available on the Rutgers-Camden site. If you plan to attend a session, please RSVP to the Director of the Program, Professor Boyd, via email kendra.boyd@rutgers.edu at least one week in advance.
2025-2026 Schedule
October 3: Beatrice J. Adams, Assistant Professor, Princeton University, “Sisters are in Charge:” Black Women in Atlanta and the Making of the New Great Migration. Comment: Kendra Boyd, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University-Camden.
October 24: Susan Mokhberi, Associate Professor, Rutgers University-Camden: “Diplomacy, Politesse, and the Making of France. Comment: Sierra Lomuto, Assistant Professor, Rowan University.
December 5: Emily Marker, Associate Professor, Rutgers University-Camden: “Europeanization as Repair? Austria’s Belated Reparations to Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, 1990s-2020s.” Comment: Ari Joskowicz, Professor, Vanderbilt University.
Past Seminars
2024-2025
2023-2024
2022-2023
2021-2022
2019-2020
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
2015-2016
2014-2015