When: Wednesday, November 13, 2024 | 3:30PM
Where: Hurst Lounge
Join us as Maddalena Marinari, Professor of History at Gustavus Adolphus College, presents a lecture as part of the History Department Colloquium series. This event is co-sponsored by AMCS, CRE2, and Global Studies.
Talk followed by Q&A.
Light refreshments will be served.
About the Speaker
Professor in History; Peace Studies; and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies; Chair in History; and Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Faculty Associate in John S Kendall Center
Dr. Marinari teaches a broad range of courses on twentieth-century U.S. history, immigration history, American identity, U.S. in the world, and world history. In the classroom, she seeks to empower students to look at U.S. history in a global perspective, think critically about who makes history, and grapple with how the past influences the present. She loves hearing from students so feel free to stop by and say hi!
Dr. Marinari also has an active research agenda. She has published extensively on immigration restriction and immigrant mobilization, including articles published in the Journal of Policy History, Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Social Science History, and Journal of American Ethnic History. She is the author of Unwanted: Italian And Jewish Mobilization Against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882-1965 and, along with Maria Cristina Garcia and Madeline Hsu, a co-editor of A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965. She is the co-editor with Erika Lee of a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of American History on the hundredth anniversaries of the passage of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924 and co-editor with Maria Cristina Garcia of a second anthology, titled Whose America? U.S. Immigration Policy since 1980 under contract with the University of Illinois Press. The Gustavus faculty recognized her outstanding scholarly record with the 2021 Faculty Scholarly Accomplishment Award, the college’s highest honor for research.
She is also an active public intellectual. She regularly gives public talks and has written for media outlets like the Washington Post, Public Radio International, and MinnPost. She is one of the scholars who created the #ImmigrationSyllabus, an online tool for anyone interested in understanding the history behind current debates on immigration, and Immigrants in COVID America, a curated collection of resources that chronicles the impact of the pandemic on migrant and refugee communities in the United States. Her research for this project received funding from the Social Science Research Council. Lastly, she is currently president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. In recognition of her public engagement, the Minnesota Campus Compact awarded her the Presidents’ Civic Engagement Leadership Award in the spring of 2021.