We are currently seeking nominations for the 2014 Collective Speaker!
Due to our budget, we are only seeking nominations for scholars and authors who are located West of the Mississippi. Otherwise, please feel free to nominate anyone you would like to see visit UCSD to speak about their work, the state of the discipline, or anything else you think would benefit us as historians.
To nominate someone, please comment on this post with their name, affiliation, and a few sentences describing their work. We will be holding a vote next week, so please get your nominations in by Tuesday, December 3rd at 5:00 pm.
If you have any questions about the nomination process please contact your field group representative, listed below:
ABD - Dave Henderson
East Asia - Cherry Lui
Europe - Teresa Walch
Latin America - Johnathan Abreu
Middle East - Ben Smuin
Science - Nick Hirsch
US - Mary Klann
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ReplyDeleteI am going to nominate two, since nobody has responded and the deadline is approaching. If I can only nominate one, then please consider the first one my nominee:
- David Erickson. Director, Center for Community Development Investments of the FED.
He has a PhD in History from Berkeley. It may be interesting to learn about someone who has followed a non-academic path. He could tell us about the work that he does, but also about how he used his PhD to pursue this kind of career. A couple sentences about his work: "His research areas in the Community Development department of the Federal Reserve include community development finance, affordable housing, economic development, and institutional changes that benefit low-income communities" (taken from his organization's website).
You can learn more about him here: http://www.frbsf.org/community-development/about/staff/erickson/ and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGuHal7tJl0&list=PL5ZWH38T6fudYGdBy_GiJO8BKMVX6fHHS
- Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History at Stanford. He is a big name in the field of Middle Eastern social history. He has written about labor organizations, Marxism, peasants, political Islam and the Arab-Israeli conflict. I am nominating him because I am personally interested in his work. I think a talk by him would be of interest, at least, to those who are not working on that region but are looking at social movements. His CV is available here: http://history.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/vita.08-13.pdf
Jessica Stites Mor
ReplyDeleteThe University of British Columbia
Kelowna, British Columbia
http://hist.ok.ubc.ca/faculty/jessica.html
Research description from the website:
I am currently researching transnational solidarity movements, focusing on the particularities of South-South political activism. I have recently completed work on an edited volume that examines notions of citizenship, human rights and political community in transnational solidarity movements across Latin America during the Cold War. I have also begun preliminary research on the historical meanings of transnational solidarity projects for the Argentine Left, with a forthcoming article on the case study of solidarity with the PLO entitled, "Nuestros Palestinos: The PLO and the Arab League in the Argentine Political Imaginary."
I nominate Elizabeth Escobedo whose book From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front was released this year. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Denver.
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Modern U.S.; Latino/a history; immigration
Background:
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2004>
Interests:
I am an assistant professor of Latina/o history, with a specialization in 20th century Mexican American history. I received my PhD from the University of Washington in 2004 and enjoy teaching a wide-range of topics in U.S. history, including modern America, the Latina/o and Chicana/o experience, women and gender, and the history of race and ethnicity in America. Awarded a 2007-2008 Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship, I am currently completing a book on the history of Mexican American women on the World War II home front in Los Angeles.
http://www.du.edu/ahss/schools/history/facultystaff/Escobedo_Elizabeth.html
Also two:
ReplyDeleteJordanna Bailkin
University of Washington
Global History, Britain, Europe, Comparative Colonialisms
Winner of the 2012 Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the American Historical Association and Co-Winner of the 2012 Stansky Book Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies
https://depts.washington.edu/history/people/5
Edith Sheffer
Stanford University
Modern Germany, Europe, Cold War
Winner of the 2011 Paul Birdsall Prize from the American Historical Association; winner of the 2011 Fraenkel in Contemporary History from the Wiener Library, London; winner of the 2011 Keller-Sierra Prize from the Western Association of Women’s Historians
http://history.stanford.edu/sheffer_edith
I would like to nominate Dr. Nick Saenz at Adams State University. His research into questions of national identity in 18th/19th century Spain has wide thematic appeal not only for those who study Europe, but also for grad students in the Middle East and Latin America program.
ReplyDeleteMost importantly, he can provide the collective the unique insight of professional and academic life after UCSD. He has first-hand experience in applying for jobs, conducting interviews, teaching classes full time, interacting with new faculty, negotiating department politics, approaching the first book, etc. For those who do not know Nick, he completed his PhD from UCSD last year in the Modern Europe program. For more information, see his academia page: http://adams.academia.edu/CharlesNicholasSaenz
Hey, guys. I would like to nominate UCSD's own Jessica Graham for the honor. A number of people in the department haven't had the chance to interact with her yet and as a recent hire, she can give us some valuable insight about professionalization. Also, her comparative focus should be of interested to anyone interested in Africana studies, Latin America, or the U.S. Here is a description of her career and research interests from her faculty page:
ReplyDeleteCurriculum Vitae
Jessica Graham completed her Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago (2010) and a master’s degree in Africana Studies at Cornell University (2000). During a break from graduate school after leaving Cornell, Professor Graham spent two months in Brazil, where her experiences with Afro-Brazilian academics and activists led to an interest in Brazilian history. Her current book manuscript, Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Racial Inclusion as a Strategy of the U.S. and Brazilian States, 1930-45, assesses Brazil and the United States during the Great Depression and World War II. Her book examines the impact of communism, fascism, the Second World War, and Brazil-U.S. relations on evolving racial meanings of political democracy in both nations. Research for the project has been supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Archive Center, a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship, a University of Notre Dame Erskine A. Peters Dissertation Fellowship, and a University of Notre Dame Moreau Postdoctoral Fellowship, among others. Professor Graham’s most recent publication, in the Brazilian historical journal O Tempo, analyzes black pugilist Joe Louis and shifts in U.S. racial nationalism during the 1930s.
I would like to nominate Alyosha Goldstein, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico.
ReplyDeleteHis work considers the transnational and domestic politics of the War on Poverty. His book, Poverty in Common, utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to both historicize and theorize the contradictions and strategies of governance under liberal democracy.
His work would speak to essential questions of identity, politics, and governance that animate work across field groups.
In addition, he has expressed his enthusiasm to come to UCSD to meet with graduate students.