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"Corporate Empire: Fordism and the Making of Immigrant Detroit"
Saima Akhtar, Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin, Art Histories.
"'Women Ask Relief for Puerto Ricans': The Transnational and Colonial History of the US Welfare State"
Emma Amador, History Department, University of Michigan.
"From 'Alien Labor' to 'Temporary Alien' Employees: Migrant Rights at Work across Regulatory Regimes in the United States (1942-2011)"
Gabrielle Clark, Law, Justice, and Criminology Department, American University.
"The Enigma of Intellectual Production and Transmission in Global Capitalism: Explaining the Worldwide Sitdown Strike Movement of 1936"
Joseph Fronczak, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University,
"Stitching the Seams of Afro-Latina/o Political Identities across American, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies Divides"
Jose Fuste, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego.
"Debt and Difference: the Politics of Agriculture in the United States, Egypt and India in an Age of Global Crisis"
Samantha Iyer, Warren Center, Harvard University.
"The US Army and Colonial Military Labor in Cuba and the Philippines, 1898-1913"
Justin Jackson, Draper Program, New York University.
"'Sympathies as Broad as the Universe': Globalizing Black Antislavery after Emancipation"
Justin Leroy, Warren Center, Harvard University.
"Black Sea, Black Atlantic: From Frederick Douglass to Leo Tolstoy, Images of the Caucasus in the Wake of the Civil and Caucasian Wars"
Sarah Lewis, Hutchins Center, Harvard University.
"Philippine Disorders in the Able-Bodied Empire"
Allan Lumba, Warren Center, Harvard University.
"Mobilizing 'Free Asians': Asian American Soldiering through the Decolonizing Pacific"
Simeon Man, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California.
"The Feminist Subject at War: Logics of Racialization in US Humanitarian Imperialism"
Elizabeth Mesok, Warren Center, Harvard University.
"'The Greatest Nation on Earth': The Politics and Patriotism of the First Anglo-American Immigrants to Mexican Texas"
Sarah Rodriguez, History Department, University of Pennsylvania.
"Nowhere to Hide: International Fugitives and American Power"
Katherine Unterman, History Department, Texas A&M.
