Held on December 4, 2013
In this talk designed for students and faculty, Dr. Sarah Chinn, Professor of English at Hunter College, discussed the historical intersections of legal, medical, and racial discourses in the United States. The event was organized by Dr. Amy Traver, Professor of Sociology at Queensborough Community College, CUNY.
Please note the lecture's original title was "The Body, Disabilities and the Holocaust" which was updated to "Blood, Disability, and the Meaning of Japanese American Citizenship in World War II".
Dr. Sarah Chinn, Professor of English at Hunter College, received her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. Her work primarily explores questions of race, sexuality, and gender in U.S. literature and culture, particularly in the 19th century. She is the author of two books, Technology and the Logic of American Racism: A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence (Continuum, 2000), and Inventing Modern Adolescence: The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Center America. Dr. Chinn has published numerous scholarly articles on 19th century US literature, gender and sexuality, and disability studies.
Dr. Amy Traver is Professor of Sociology at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. Her research interests include student success and experiential pedagogies in community college contexts, as well as intersections of race/ethnicity and gender in American family life. Her most recent publications in these areas include articles in Teaching Sociology, Internet and Higher Education (with Volchok, Bidjerano, and Shea), Qualitative Sociology, Sociological Focus, and International Journal of Sociology of the Family. She is also the co-editor (with Perel Katz) of Service-Learning at the American Community College (Palgrave Macmillan 2014), an edited volume reviewed as a “must read” that “suggests a strategy for reconsidering the priorities and practices of higher education.” Traver is a graduate of Colgate University (B.A., 1997), Harvard University (Ed.M., 1999), and the State University of New York at Stony Brook (Ph.D., 2008).
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