Congratulations to Tian Xu, whose article “Chinese Women and Habeas Corpus Hearings in California, 1857–1882" just won the George and Ann Richards Prize for the best article published in the Journal of the Civil War Era! www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2024/09/cong...
Tian Xu has won the $1,000 George and Ann Richards Prize for the best article published in The Journal of the Civil War Era in 2023. The article, “Chinese Women and Habeas Corpus Hearings in Californi...
I'm honored to contribute a chapter on anti-Irish nativism in the mid-19th-century US to The Routledge History of Irish America. Thank you to the volume's wonderful editors, Cian McMahon and Kate Costello-Sullivan, for guiding the authors and putting the project together! #immigrationhistory
Job alert in Asian American and Pacific Islander History. Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley is hiring an assistant professor in the field, as part of the cluster search in Asian American and Pacific Islander Transpacific Futures. Applications are due Oct. 1 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04469
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
On the "Immigrants eat cats" thing. This is part of a long, particular history of using animals to other and vilify immigrants in the United States. Here's an 1871 cartoon describing anti-Chinese sentiment: "Coolie, Slave, Pauper, and Rat-Eater."
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Personal professional news. I am pleased to announce that I have accepted a new position as the co-director of the Canadian Studies Program at Berkeley. I'm honored to serve the program and looking forward to new opportunities! canada.berkeley.edu
So honored to contribute a chapter, "Strangers in the Homeland: The Aftermath of Deportation from the United States," to this excellent volume!
Today, the officers and elected members of the IEHS Executive Board endorsed the following statement condemning the use of police violence, retaliation, and intimidation to break up college student protests across the U.S.
