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Security World: The View from Alaska (Transnational Policing during the Cold War)

Monday, February 4, 2013 at 12:15pm to 1:15pm

Uris Hall, 202
Central Campus

Co-Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program, the Latino Studies Program and the Committee on U.S. - Latin American Relations

Micol Siegel is associate professor of American Studies and History at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her work on race in the Americas, particularly the U.S. and Brazil, transnational method, cultural politics, prisons and policing, has appeared in such venues as the Hispanic American Historical Review, Radical History Review, Social Text and, in her book Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States (Duke, 2009), which received a finalist mention for the Lora Romero first book prize of the American Studies Association. She is a co-convener of the American Studies Association's Critical Prison Studies caucus and 2012-2013 director of the Tepoztlan Institute for the Transnational History of the American Council of Learned Societies, pursuing research on the transnational circulation of policing policy and practice during the Cold War for a project tentatively entitled The Global Precinct: U.S. Policing after World War ll.

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Event Type

Seminar

Tags

LSPCAL, Latino Studies

Website

http://lasp.einaudi.cornell.edu/node/...

Contact E-Mail

rms299@cornell.edu

Contact Name

Rebecca Snyder

Contact Phone

607-255-1468

Speaker

Micol Seigel

Speaker Affiliation

Associate Professor, American Studies and History at Indiana University, Bloomington

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