Congratulations to the AMST class of 2014! AMST welcomes you to The University of Maryland May 2014 Commencement, where graduates, family members and the university community gather to celebrate the diplomas and degrees given to graduate students.
Moderated by AMST Assistant Professor, Dr. Perla Guerrero.
Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
Student Meet & Greet in 4116 Susquehanna Hall, 2:30-4pm
Public Talk in Gildenhorn Recital Hall, CSPAC, 5:30-7pm
Food, Trauma, and Sustainability asks: how does food enable one to achieve a more satisfactory “intellectual, emotional, moral and spiritual existence” during times of life transition, migration (forced and voluntary), displacement and dislocation?
On New Book: Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia
Maryland Room, 0100 Marie Mount Hall
Thursday, April 3rd, 2014 @ 4pm
Dr. Perla Guerrero has received a Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship for the 2014-15 academic year. Dr. Guerrero will be working on her book manuscript, Latinas/os and Asians Remaking Arkansas, and working with Professor Paul Ortiz and the Samuel...
Harry Truman is celebrated for recognizing the new state of Israel, but there is evidence he was never comfortable with the idea of a Jewish state, and would have preferred some sort of Arab-Jewish federation. Largely because of vigorous lobbying by...
Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance by Dr. Cheryl LaRoche
In the Spirit of a New People: The Cultural Politics of the Chicano Movement by Dr. Randy Ontiveros