Erik Bernardino is an Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Latinx Studies at Bates College. He is a historian of the twentieth century United States specializing in Latinx, immigration, and borderlands histories. His research focuses on border policing, labor migrations, and morality at the turn of the twentieth century in the United States for […]
Cody Miller, Lecturer of Sustainable Development, Appalachian State University, will deliver a lecture on Appalachian agricultural history. The talk is the department’s annual Babcock Lecture which welcomes back a department alum to share their current research.
Friends and colleagues of Ngo Vinh Long will have a celebration of his life, work, and legacy during the Asian Studies Association Conference at Harvard-Yenching LIbrary, 2 Divinity Ave., Boston, MA 02138. The University of Maine History Department is helping to sponsor this event. Among those speaking at this event will be three members of […]
Jamie Kreiner, Professor of History, University of Georgia, will deliver a lecture on medieval monks’ diets, which is related to her forthcoming book The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us about Distraction (W.M. Norton, January 2023)
The Socialist-Marxist Luncheon Series at UMaine will have a program on Ngo Vinh Long, followed by a reception sponsored by the History Department. This event will also be held on Zoom.
History Department Scholarship Awards & Phi Alpha Theta Initiation
https://maine.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrd-uuqTgiE9KWZg0LhODEOqtPM_b6HGb4#/registration Paul A. Kramer is an associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University; he specializes in U.S. international history. He has authored dozens of articles published in leading academic journals as well as in Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, and The New York Times. His book, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States […]
A University of Maine alumnus, Professor Graham Carr is president and vice chancellor of Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. A historian by training and a long-time leader in higher education in Canada, Carr returns to his alma mater to explore the role universities can and should play in addressing the legacy of colonialism and anti-Black […]
Barbara Winslow is Professor Emerita at the City University of New York and the founder of the Shirley Chisolm Project. She has published five books in addition to dozens of articles, essays, and reviews. For this talk, she will draw from her latest book, Revolutionary Feminism: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Seattle, 1965-1975 (Durham: Duke […]
Kabria Baumgartner is Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies and Associate Director of Public History at Northeastern University. She writes about the hidden, forgotten, and erased lived experiences of African-descended people in New England and the Atlantic World. She has authored numerous articles published in leading academic journals, and her book, In Pursuit […]
