Hello all,
Below, please find the list of all nominations submitted for our 2014 Collective Speaker. Make sure to vote by Monday, January 13 using the link to the poll sent out on Monday, January 6!
1) 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.” You can learn more about him here: http://www.frbsf.org/community-development/about/staff/erickson/
2) Joel Beinin, Stanford University
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. 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
3) Jessica Stites Mor, University of British Columbia
From her bio: "
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.""
http://hist.ok.ubc.ca/faculty/jessica.html
4) Elizabeth Escobedo, University of Denver
Her 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 of Latina/o history, with a specialization in 20th century Mexican American history. She received my PhD from the University of Washington in 2004 and enjoys 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.
http://www.du.edu/ahss/schools/history/facultystaff/Escobedo_Elizabeth.html
5) Jordanna 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
6) 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
7) Nick Saenz, 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. Most 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
8) Jessica Graham, UCSD
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. 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.
9) Alyosha Goldstein, University of New Mexico
His 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.
http://www.unm.edu/~agoldste/goldsteincv.pdf
10) Robin Kelley, UCLA
From his bio: "My research has explored the history of social movements in the U.S., the African Diaspora, and Africa; black intellectuals; music; visual culture; contemporary urban studies; historiography and historical theory; poverty studies and ethnography; colonialism/imperialism; organized labor; constructions of race; Surrealism, Marxism, nationalism, among other things. My latest big project is a biography of the late Grace Halsell, tentatively titled The Education of Ms. Grace Halsell: An Intimate History of the American Century. The Texas-born journalist, granddaughter of Confederate slave owners, daughter of a once wealthy cattle rancher and Indian fighter, began her career as a correspondent (domestic and foreign) for several Texas papers during the 1940s and 50s, eventually worked as a staff writer for President Lyndon B. Johnson, before setting out in 1968 to chemically darken her skin and live as a black woman for a year."
http://www.history.ucla.edu/people/faculty/faculty-1/faculty-1?lid=6785
11) Moon Ho Jung, University of Washington
Fields include race, politics, and Asian American History. Author of Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation, which won the Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians and the History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. He is currently working on The Unruly Pacific: Race and the Politics of Empire and Revolution, 1898-1941, under contract with University of California Press.
http://depts.washington.edu/history/people/28?facultyname=j-46jung
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