This course takes a cultural approach to connected histories and more contemporary developments of (post)colonial national identity formations, U.S. empire, and globalization during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the lenses of gender, race, and appearance. We will examine visual and performative cultural arenas such as beauty pageants, advertising, mass media, film, and video and investigate how discourses of racial and gendered aesthetics functioned in structuring and maintaining colonial forces and empire.
2013-2014 WIGH Fellow Associate Professor of History, Queen's University, Canada
Amitava Chowdhury is an historian and historical archaeologist of agrarian labour regimes and colonial plantations in the British Caribbean and the Indian...
Cyrus Veeser is Associate Professor of History at Bentley University. His research interests include modernization in colonies and LDCs, 1870-1930; U....
WIGH Associate 2015-2016 PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
Westenley (Wes) Alcenat is a PhD candidate in history at Columbia University in New York City. His research interest is in comparative U.S and Caribbean...
WIGH Visiting Fellow, Spring 2017 Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Fall 2016 Associate Professor in International Law, University of Los Andes Law School, Colombia
Liliana Obregón is professor of law at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. She has a degree in law from the same university, an MA from...
