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Work in Progress Lecture Series
This series offers a dynamic forum where faculty and doctoral students in the Department of History share previews of their ongoing research. Each session invites discussion, feedback, and collaboration in an informal setting, fostering intellectual exchange and community among scholars at all stages of their work.
Fall 2025
- November 13th, Ummull Muhseneen, "Memorialization and Commemoration of the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide".
- November 21st, Dr. Carnaghi, 鈥淭argeting the Resistance Abroad: Fascist and Nazi Secret Human Weapons鈥� and Dr. Ann Daly, "Minting America: Labor, Science, and the Political Economy of Money in the early United States".
Ward Stavig Memorial Lecture
This lecture series was inaugurated in 2008 to honor the memory of our former colleague Ward Stavig, who was a beloved social historian of colonial Peruvian and Bolivian peasant culture. His books and essays, including the World of Tupac Amaru: Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru, exhibited sensitivity for his subjects while exploring then novel topics of marital life, sexual values, violence, and identity.
The 2025-2026 lecture will be announced soon.
Previous Stavig Lectures
2024 - Dr. (Florida International University), "How Florida Helped Shape the Nation鈥檚 'Culture Wars': A History of the 1950s and 60s". The event, co-sponsored by the Department of Women鈥檚, Gender and Sexuality Studies and, the USF Humanities Institute, and the History Department Graduate Student Organization, provided much needed historical context to the current debates around gender and sexuality happening in our state.
2017 - Dr. (Notre Dame University), "Containing Law Within the Walls". Dr. Graubart鈥檚 talk focused on a 1568 order from the governor of the viceroyalty of Lima to construct a walled neighborhood to house indigenous immigrants. Dr. Graubart shows that this was a legal act, intended to differentiate the laws that ordered both Spanish and indigenous communities in the city, and to create indigenous leadership that could be molded by Spanish authorities. She argues racial differentiation flowed from the recognition of indigenous self-governance.
2014 - Dr. (Davidson College), "Even Though She was Indian in Her Dress: Spanish Outsiders within Indigenous Family Networks in 16th Century Peru鈥�.&苍产蝉辫;
2011 - Dr. (Barnard College), "Defining Latin America within a Global Perspective".
2007 - Dr.(Harvard University), 鈥�Searching for the Subaltern: Ward Stavig鈥檚 contribution to the historiography of Latin America鈥�.