Events
May 01, 2012
3:30-7:30pm
Annual Spring Party!
*Senior Honors Presentations, 3:30-5:30pm
*Dinner and mingling, 5:30-6:30pm
*Awards Ceremony, 6:30-7:30pm
Mandel Center Lounge
Registration Required
For more information, contact Kalli at kxv50@case.edu or 216.368.2625
May 01, 2012
11:30-1pm
Mather House 100
4th Annual Postdoctoral Fellowship in African American Studies Lecture
with the 2011-2012 fellow Dr. Jenifer Barclay
Free and open to the public
Bad Breeders, Monstrosities and Women of “Poor” Character: Racialized, Gendered “Disabilities” in the Era of American Slavery
Drawing on her fellowship research into the question of how gender intersected with race and health conditions that could today be classified as disabilities, Professor Barclay posits that infertility and the birth of children with congenital disabilities were racialized phenomena in the antebellum South. Slaveholders’ interest in women’s reproductive and productive labor as well as women’s attempts to maintain control over this most intimate aspect of their lives are topics that have long preoccupied scholars. By redirecting attention to cases in which pregnancy or the birth of healthy (or “normal”) children did not occur, however, Barclay considers how certain disabilities were linked to women but interpreted through racist frameworks in the antebellum years.
May 02, 2012
4:00pm
Mather House 100
Annual History Associates Fellowships Graduate Student Presentations:
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Erik Miller: “’Good in the 'Hood:’ Christian Community Development and the Evangelical Politics of Compassion.” My dissertation tells the story of a Mississippi born African American evangelical named John Perkins and his mission to save America's cities through what he called "Christian community development." HIs idea grew into a social movement that has altered the relationship between evangelical Christians and American public life since the 1960s.
Elizabeth Salem: “Women and Addiction in America, 1800-1920.” My presentation describes my current research, which is focused on the formation of the concept of modern addiction in the United States. Through an analysis of sources like medical journals, popular medical writings, contemporary novels, and the mass media, this project works to shed light on two historical problems. The first focuses on the fact that the origins of addiction are linked to the emergence of gender-specific depictions of substance abuse, and the second emphasizes how these depictions have had serious implications for the historiography on this subject, which currently relies upon a series of binary splits for its explanatory frameworks: legal versus illegal consumption, licit versus illicit substances, and medical versus popular use.
Jesse Tarbert: “When Good Government Meant Big Government: Elite Reformers and the Quest for Efficiency in U.S. Federal Agencies, 1920-1933.” Between the First World War and the New Deal, a bipartisan group of well-placed policy makers and policy advocates attempted to solve a variety of policy problems by applying the logic of efficiency to the institutional structure of the American state. In their drive to rationalize and reorganize, these reformers repeatedly proposed measures that would have increased centralized administrative power in federal executive agencies.
This event is sponsored by the CWRU History Department and History Associates. It is free and open to the public. Mather House is located on the CWRU campus, (Euclid Avenue, between Thwing Student Center and the Church of the Covenant, our front door faces the Church). Metered parking is available on Bellflower Rd., free spaces near the museum on East Blvd, and paid parking is in the lot beneath Severance Hall, or in front of the Church. Please feel free to call Kalli Vimr at 216.368.2625 if you have any questions about the event, or about becoming a member of History Associates. More information about the group can be found at the department’s website: http://history.case.edu/history-associates