AMST Assistant Professor in Public Humanities

Research Talks and lunches - Spring 2019

LLC students are invited to attend any of the following (free) lunches and/or job talks related to the AMST search for a new assistant professor of public humanities. 

RSVPs for any lunches or talks you can make it to are appreciated but not necessary. Tamara Bhalla, Associate Professor: tbhalla@umbc.edu

Department of American Studies Assistant Professor in Public Humanities

Research Talks - Spring 2019


All job talks: Fine Arts 559

All lunches: Skylight Lounge in the Commons



Wednesday, January 30

12 - 1PM Sarah Fouts, Job Talk: A TALE OF TWO TELAS: FOOD, DISPLACEMENT, AND PLACE-BASED ACTIVISM IN NEW ORLEANS AND HONDURAS


1:15-2:15PM: Lunch in the Skylight Lounge


Monday, February 4

11:30am – 12:30pm Vince Schleitwiler, Job Talk: THE NON-ALIEN’S LAMENT: VIOLENCE AND THE ELSEWHERES OF AFRO-ASIAN RADICAL IMAGINATION


12:45PM-1:30PM: Lunch at Skylight Lounge


Monday, February 11

11:30am - 12:30pm: William Gow, Job Talk: WORKING THE GOOD EARTH: CHINESE AMERICAN EXTRAS IN HOLLYWOOD DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION


12:40PM-1:20PM: Lunch at Skylight Lounge


Wednesday, February 13

11:30am - 12:30pm: Kevin Winstead, Job talk: EMANCIPATORY HOPE: RECLAIMING BLACK SOCIAL MOVEMENT CONTINUITY


12:45PM-1:30PM: Lunch at Skylight


Friday, February 22

11:30am – 12:30pm Mike Casiano, Job talk: THE CARCERAL CITY: CRIME, PROPERTY, AND MUNICIPAL POWER IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY BALTIMORE


12:45-1:30pm Lunch at Skylight Lounge



Posted: January 28, 2019, 9:25 AM