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UEP Senior Comprehensive Project Presentations
The seniors will present over three days:
Talk by Dr. Alfredo González: "Green Card Troops: From Citizenship-for-Service to Service-for-Citizenship, 1918-1940"
Alfredo González is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Students at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Dr. González received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2011 and M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2019. His book manuscript, Deporting Veterans: Race, Citizenship, and U.S. Immigrant Military Service since WWI, explores the development of exchanging legal citizenship to immigrants for their labor in the U.S.
History Department Senior Comps
Schedule and List of Presenters:
2:00 Welcome
2:05 Leah Harman, Manly Medicine: Masculinity in the 19th Century Debate on Puerperal Fever
2:20 Claire Pollard, How to Kill a Queen: Misogyny’s Deadly Effects on Elizabeth I and Mary of Scots
2:35 Maria Barkhurst, A Mechanism for Fundamental Cultural Change’: The Chicana Movement’s Use of the Law as a Tool of Resistance
A Conversation on Open Educational Resources
This talk will be facilitated by Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC and a leading advocate for Open Access.
CTSJ Presents: Ammar Campa-Najjar
Ammar Campa-Najjar is a Congressional Candidate for CA-50, Democratic Party. He worked on the Obama campaign and served in the administration. He is the former Communications Director for the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
CTSJ Presents: Prof. Natasha Behl
Professor Behl is the author of Gendered Citizenship (2019). Her work focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of gender and race based inequality in liberal democracies. Also, making sense of racial, gendered and epistemic violence in academis.
CTSJ Presents: Marie Angel Hernandez
Marie Angel Hernandez is an undocumented transgender woman of queer expression. She is an advocate for trans people of color using educational media as a mechanism to bring visibility to their narratives.