The Workshop in Modern U.S. History meets once per month to discuss works in progress by leading scholars in 20th-century U.S. history. The workshop is open to all graduate students and faculty. Sponsored by professors Beverly Gage and Elizabeth Hinton.
2024-2025 Schedule
all events take place from 4:00-5:30 in HQ 276 unless otherwise noted
September 19, opening lecture and reception: Kathleen Belew, Northwestern University, “Gunchildren: A History of the Present”
October 24: (HQ 107) Timothy Stewart-Winter, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, “The Fall of Walter Jenkins: Sexual Politics in Cold War America”
January 30: Faith Lazar, Yale University, “From Rollback to Blowback: A Genealogy of Leaderless Resistance”
February 13: Kerri Greenidge, Tufts University, “William Worthy and the Black Roots of New England Liberalism”
February 27: Ivón Padilla-Rodriguez, University of Illinois-Chicago, “I Think I Am in Prison:” Migrant Smuggling and Youth Labor Trafficking on Farms in the Post-1965 United States
March 28: (HQ 107) Gabriel Winant, University of Chicago, “Servants and Psychologists: Some Ins and Outs of Emotional Labor”
May 1: Lily Geismer, Claremont McKenna College, “Let’s Talk About Diversity: Race, Class, and Private Schools in the Post-Civil Rights Era”