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Jordan T. Camp, Associate Professor of American Studies <\/span><\/h3>\n

Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the <\/span>Social Justice Institute<\/a>\u00a0at Trinity College, and a Visiting Fellow in the\u00a0<\/span>Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut<\/a>. His research focuses on the relationships between race and class, expressive culture, political economy, the state, social theory, and the history of labor and freedom struggles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jordan is the author of <\/span>Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State<\/i>\u00a0(University of California Press, 2016); co-editor (with Christina Heatherton) of\u00a0<\/span>Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter\u00a0<\/i>(Verso, 2016); and co-editor (with Laura Pulido) of the late\u00a0<\/span>Clyde Woods\u2019 Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in<\/i>\u00a0Post-Katrina New Orleans<\/i> (University of Georgia Press, 2017). <\/span>His work also appears in journals such as\u00a0<\/span>American Quarterly<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>Antipode<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>Environment and Planning D: Society and Space<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>Eurozine, Journal of Urban History, Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>Ord & Bild<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>Race & Class<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>Rethinking Marxism,<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Social Justice<\/i>. He is the co-host and co-producer of the Conjuncture\u00a0<\/span>podcast<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>web series.<\/a>\u00a0He is currently working on a new book entitled,\u00a0<\/span>The Southern Question.<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Amanda Guzman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology<\/h3>\n

Amanda J. Guzm\u00e1n is an anthropological archaeologist with a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in the field of museum anthropology with a focus on the history of collecting and exhibiting Puerto Rico at the intersection of issues of intercultural representation and national identity formation. Guzm\u00e1n is the co-director of Trinity’s Center for Caribbean Studies.<\/p>\n

With a record of fellowships awarded by the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of American History and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Guzm\u00e1n has a demonstrated background handling and interpreting object and archival material in diverse collection-holding cultural institutions. She supports undergraduate anthropological training beyond the classroom through academic year research assistantships and regular participation in the Summer Research Program.<\/p>\n

Amanda applies her collections experience as well as her commitment to working with and for multiple publics to her object-based inquiry teaching practice that privileges a more equitable, co-production of knowledge through accessible modelling of cultural work. As a former community learning faculty fellow and advisory board member, she actively collaborates with the Center for Hartford Engagement and Research through community learning courses. Guzm\u00e1n has hosted class speaker series, focused on Puerto Rican<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0museum studies<\/a>, to promote student interactions with broader networks of scholars and cultural workers.<\/p>\n

Amanda serves as a board member on the Council for Museum Anthropology, the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center and on the Board of Directors for the Pre-Columbian Society of New York.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Christina Heatherton, Associate Professor of American Studies and Everett and Joanne Elting Associate Professor for Human Rights and Global Citizenship<\/h3>\n

Christina Heatherton is the author of Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>(University of California Press, 2022). The book will be translated into Spanish and republished by La Cigarra Press (Mexico City, Mexico) in Fall 2023. With Jordan T. Camp she previously edited\u00a0Policing the Planet<\/i>:\u00a0Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(Verso Books, 2016). Her work appears in volumes such as\u00a0The Cambridge History of America in the World<\/i>, edited by Kristin Lee Hoganson and Jay Sexton (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2022),\u00a0Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion and Change<\/i>, edited by Leela Fernandes (NYU Press, 2018),\u00a0Futures of Black Radicalism<\/i>, edited by Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin (Verso Books, 2017), and\u00a0The Rising Tides of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements Across the Pacific<\/i>, edited by Moon-Ho Jung (Univ. of Washington Press, 2014) as well as scholarly journals such as\u00a0American Quarterly<\/i>,\u00a0Society and Space,<\/i>\u00a0Women’s Studies Quarterly,<\/i>\u00a0City<\/i>,\u00a0Social Justice<\/i>,\u00a0Interface.\u00a0<\/i>It\u00a0also appears in popular venues such as\u00a0Public Seminar<\/i>,\u00a0Politics\/Letters<\/i>,\u00a0Zocalo<\/i>,\u00a0The Funambulist<\/i>,\u00a0Washington Spectator<\/i>, and\u00a0032 Magazine<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Christina previously founded and co-directed several public facing initiatives, including: New Directions in American Studies (NDAS); the Oral History and Activism Project; and the Working Group on Racial Capitalism, a project of the Center for Study of Social Difference (CSSD), Columbia University. She is the editor of Downtown Blues: A Skid Row Reader<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(Freedom Now Books, 2011) and co-editor with Jordan T. Camp of\u00a0Freedom Now! Struggles for the Human Right to Housing in LA and Beyond<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(Freedom Now Books, 2012). She is co-host and co-producer of the podcast\/ web series\u00a0Conjuncture<\/i>. She currently co-directs the Trinity Social Justice Institute.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Karen Li Miller, Lecturer in American Studies \u2013 Graduate Studies Program<\/h3>\n

Karen Li Miller teaches American culture and literature courses. Her interests include nineteenth-century, multi-ethnic, women’s, children’s, and material culture studies. Her dissertation,\u00a0Locating Reproduction: Representations of the Chinese in Nineteenth-Century American Literature<\/em>, explored the theme of reproduction in a range of perspectives, from the politics of individual women’s bodies to American immigration policies to Sino-American relations. The project examined a variety of texts and materials, including canonical writings, such as Melville and Twain, historical women\u2019s publications, children\u2019s missionary periodicals, chinoiserie, photographs, and toys. This interdisciplinary and multi-layered research approach informs her teaching philosophy. Through interactive assignments and discussions, she works to extend students’ sense of connection and authority with our texts as well as in their multiple communities, from local to global.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Juliet Nebolon, Assistant Professor of American Studies<\/h3>\n

Juliet received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. Her research and teaching bring a transnational perspective to the study of race, indigeneity, and gender in the United States, with a particular focus on U.S. war and empire in Asia and the Pacific Islands. Nebolon\u2019s book manuscript, Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai\u2018i and the Making of U.S. Empire\u00a0<\/i>(under contract, Duke UP), focuses on the martial law period in Hawai\u2018i during the Pacific War.\u00a0 This interdisciplinary project explores the overlapping regimes of settler colonialism and militarization in the domains of public health, domestic science, education, land acquisition, and internment.\u00a0 Her article in\u00a0American Quarterly<\/i>, \u201c\u2018Life Given Straight from the Heart\u2019: Settler Militarism, Biopolitics, and Public Health in Hawai\u2018i during World War II,\u201d was awarded the American Studies Association\u2019s 2018 Constance M. Rourke Prize. She recently published a second article, \u201cSettler-Military Camps: Internment and Prisoner of War Camps across the Pacific Islands during World War II,\u201d\u00a0in the\u00a0Journal of Asian American Studies<\/i>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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