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.
2024-2025 Schedule
Fall 2025: Will be forthcoming
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:
February 28: Keith Green (Rutgers University – Camden, Associate Professor of English).
Title: “First Families: Richard Gunderway Presents His Afro-Native Daughters for Baptism, Rev. Ephraim Little Inherits a Black Boy, and the Fraught Meanings of Church Ties, 1708 – .”
Comment: Rebecca Goetz (New York University, Associate Professor of History)
March 7: Hardeep Dhillon, (University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor of History and core faculty in the Asian American Studies Program).
Title: “An Immigration Story: Birthright Children in the Era of Asian Exclusion.” from her book-in-progress.
Comment: Lorrin Thomas (Rutgers University-Camden, Associate Professor of History)
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).
Title: “The Gay Nazi and the Innocent Child, or Coming to Terms with the Past in Germany, Year Zero (1948).”
Comment: Joseph Fischel (Yale University, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)
April 18: Danya Pilgrim (Temple University, Assistant Professor of History)
Title: “Authenticity, Antiblackness, and the Transformation of Taste.”
Comments: Kendra Boyd (Rutgers University-Camden, Assistant Professor of History) and Becky Diamond (Rutgers University, Business Librarian)
Past Seminars
2023-2024
2022-2023
2021-2022
2019-2020
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
2015-2016
2014-2015