People most everywhere are crossing borders, perhaps in numbers never before seen. When we think of these crossings in the Americas, we imagine them as a one-way street, and from south to north. But people have moved around in any number of directions within the hemisphere, and have been doing so for generations.
This one day workshop sponsored by the University’s Center for the Liberal Arts and supported by a grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations will offer rich perspectives on the humanity of migrants throughout the Americas, a broad context within which to teach the stories of those reaching the borders of the United States from the global south, and the long history of U.S. policies toward these newcomers
Presenters
Carl J. Bon Tempois, associate professor of history at the State University of New York, Albany. His research and teaching focus on twentieth century U.S. political and public policy history, immigration and refugee history, and the history of human rights. In 2008, he published Americans at the Gates: The United States and Refugees during the Cold Warwith Princeton University Press. Currently, he is co-authoring with Hasia Diner (NYU) a book titled Immigration: An American Historyfor Yale University Press. Bon Tempo is also writing a monograph titled Human Rights at Home: The United States and Human Rights in the 1980sfor the University of Pennsylvania Press. In 2014, Bon Tempo received the College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, University at Albany, SUNY.
Elena McGrath, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, is a historian of revolutionary movements, race, gender, and natural resources in Latin America. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 2016. Her current project, Devil’s Bargains: The Limits of Worker Citizenship and Resource Nationalism in Bolivia follows mining families as they struggle to hold a revolutionary government accountable, create more egalitarian communities, and survive in the Andes in the 20th Century. At UVa, Elena teaches courses on revolution and migration in Latin America, and has previously taught seminars in global history for adults and college students. Elena’s next project will be a transnational history of how the English bowler hat came tobe a symbol of indigenous femininity in Andean Bolivia.
Jennifer Sublette Williamson, Assistant Principal, Western Albemarle High School, began her teaching career in 1995 in Montgomery County, Maryland where she taught both middle and high school socialstudies and served as an instructional specialist. For the past 15 years, she has worked for Albemarle County Public Schools as a teacher, facilitator of social studies and gifted services, and, now, as an assistant principal at Western Albemarle High School. She received a BA and Ed.S. from the University of Virginia. Having taught a range of courses from 7th grade social studies to AP European history, Ms. Sublette works to integrate content rigor with engaging instructional strategies that support student learning when working with teachers.
Agenda
8:30–9:00 Check-in/Coffee
9:00–9:30 Intro - Natsuko Rohde, Associate Director, Center for the Liberal Arts, UVA.
Marc Selverstone, Chair, Presidential Recordings
Program & Associate Professor, Miller Center, UVA.
Herbert Braun, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, UVA.
9:30–10:45 Global Migration – Elena McGrath
10:45–11:00 Break
11:00–12:15 US Immigration - Carl Bon Tempo
12:15–1:30 Lunch
1:30–3:00 Pedagogy – Jenn Sublette-Williamson
3:00 Departure