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
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)