BARBARA RANSBY
African American Studies and History, University of Illinois at Chicago
Date and lecture titles TBA

LOIS WEIS
Graduate School of Education, University of Buffalo
UNEQUAL OUTCOMES: THE PRODUCTION OF INEQUALITY IN NEW ECONOMIC TIMES
“Re-thinking the Intersections of Race, Class and Gender: Tracking the Making of the New White Working Class in the Final Quarter of the Twentieth Century”
Tuesday, February 20, 4pm
“Reflections on the Utility of Longitudinal Ethnography: Understanding Class as ‘Nested’ Production”
Wednesday, February 21, 4pm
Public Seminar
Thursday, February 22, 12:20pm

NANCY MACLEAN
History, Northwestern University
RACE AND REGION IN THE MAKING OF THE MODERN RIGHT
“Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace”
Tuesday, March 20, 4pm
“Southern Dominance in Borrowed Language: The Regional Origins of American Neo-Liberalism”
Wednesday, March 21, 4pm
Public Seminar: “Neo-Confederacy vs. the New Deal: The Regional Utopia of the Modern American Right”
Thursday, March 22, 12:20pm

ROSE BREWER
Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota
THEMES TBA
"Lecture 1"
Tuesday, March 27, 4pm
“Lecture 2"
Wednesday, March 28, 4pm
Public Seminar
Thursday, March 29, 12:20pm

GLENDA GILMORE
Department of History, Yale University
THE U.S. SOUTH, THE NATION, AND THE WORLD, 1919-1949
“When Jim Crow Met Karl Marx”
Tuesday, April 17, 4pm
“The Nazis and Dixie: African Americans and Fascism”
Wednesday, April 18, 4pm
Public Seminar: “Guerrillas in the Good War”
Thursday, April 19, 12:20pm

IRA KATZNELSON
Political Science and History, Columbia University
ON JIM CROW AND THE LIBERAL TRADITION
“When Affirmative Action was White”
Tuesday, May 8, 7pm
“Southern Nation: Did a ‘Solid South’ Shape American Political Development?”
Wednesday, May 9, 4pm
Public Seminar
Thursday, May 10, 12:20pm