The History Department at Rutgers–Camden announces its Lees Seminar for 2023-2024, 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 Evan Jewell, ej281@camden.rutgers.edu, at least one week in advance.
2024-2025 Schedule
Fall 2024:
September 27: Andrew Shankman, Professor of History, Rutgers University – Camden: “Neither Prologue nor Insurmountable: Federalism, Settler Colonialism, and Empire in the Stamp Act Crisis”.
Comment: Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Bryn Mawr College.
October 25: James Gerien-Chen, Assistant Professor of History, University of Florida: “Dual Subjects and Dueling Sovereignties: Mobility and the Transimperial Origins of Nationality in East Asia (1895–1910)”.
Comment: Nick Kapur, Rutgers University – Camden
Spring 2025 (preview):
February 7: Hardeep Dhillon (University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor of History and core faculty in the Asian American Studies Program)
February 28: Keith Green (Rutgers University – Camden, Associate Professor of English)
March 28: Javier Samper Vendrell (University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor of German and affiliated faculty in the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies.)
April 18: Danya Pilgrim (Temple University, Assistant Professor of History)
Past Seminars
2023-2024
2022-2023
2021-2022
2019-2020
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
2015-2016
2014-2015