In The Spotlight
Congratulations to David Yee (PhD 2019), Assistant Professor at Metropolitan State University (Denver), on the publication of his first book, Informal Metropolis: Life on the Edge of Mexico City, 1940-1976 (University of Nebraska Press). Based on his dissertation, Informal Metropolis is a conceptually rich, interdisciplinary examination of urban housing and governance in Mexico from the 1940s-70s.
The annual Book Forum held by Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, will be this Friday, Nov. 8, 2 to 4 pm (Eastern time) via Zoom. This year we feature
Lori Flores's Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID
19 (UNC Press). Commentaries will be provided by Stephen Pitti, Nan Enstad, Laura Anne
Minkoff-Zern, and Bryant Simon. Jessie Wilkerson will moderate.
News and Announcements
In The Media
Professor Robert Chase was recently interviewed on Gulf State NPR in New Orleans on a series of civil rights lawsuits filed by Alabama and Louisiana prisoners with a very wide ranging and sweeping civil rights claim. The litigation argues that incarcerated people are laboring as "slaves" and that convict leasing, outlawed in Alabama in 1928, nevertheless continues in the form of coercive work for both public and private corporations.
Jacques Coste-Cacho (PhD candidate, Latin American history) recently published an article in The Americas Quarterly examining the future prospects of Mexico's newly elected, first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, "Claudia Sheinbaum Stays on AMLO's Course."
Aishani Gupta (PhD, 2023) co-authored a recent article on her work in Museum Collections Documentation & Curatorial Planning at the home of the preeminent scientist and polymath, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, and his wife Lady Abala Bose, a champion of women's education in colonial Bengal. The article has been published by The Heritage Lab.
