2007-2008 Seminars
“Practical Blackness: Racial Publicity, Satire and the Terms of Order in the Early Republic North”
Corey Capers, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Figuring the Great Chiefs: Iroquois Portraiture from Verelst to Catlin”
Scott Stevens, State University of New York at Buffalo
“Abolition’s Origins: The Politics of Emancipation in the Atlantic World of the English Revolution”
John Donoghue, Loyola University Chicago
“ ‘First you make a roux… with bear fat’: Cooking, Eating, and Colonial Identity in French Louisiana”
Shannon Dawdy, University of Chicago
“Down But Not Out: Poverty in a Time of Scarcity Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1730–1820”
Angela Keysor, University of Iowa
“’Of our own colar’: Racing Native Alliances in Hendrick Aupaumut’s ‘Short Narration’”
Katy Chiles, Northwestern University
“Apes, Frogs, and Dogs: The Physiology of Democracy in Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture”
Justine Murison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign