University in the High School Program is honored to host this workshop sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and the University of Virginia’s Center for Liberal Arts
Friday, January 25th, 2019 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
University at Albany Campus Center West Expansion–Board Room
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 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.
All high school history, social sciences and humanities teachers are welcome to attend.
Agenda
8:30 – 9:00am Check-in, Meet & Greet, Light refreshments
9:00 – 9:30am Introduction
- Debernee S. Privott, Ph.D., AssistantDean for Public Engagement, College of Arts & Sciences; Director, University in the High School Program, University at Albany
- Marc Selverstone, Ph.D., Chair, Presidential Recordings Program & Associate Professor, University of Virginia
9:30 – 10:45am Global Migration
- Susan Gauss, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston
10:45 – 11:00am Break
11:00 – 12:15pm US Immigration
- Carl Bon Tempo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, University at Albany
12:15 – 1:30pm Lunch and Discussion
1:30 – 3:00pm Pedagogy
- Sam North, History Teacher, Ossining High School
Presenters
Carl Bon Tempo is 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 War with Princeton University Press. Currently, he is co-authoring with Hasia Diner (NYU) a book titled Immigration: An American History for Yale University Press. Bon Tempo is also writing a monograph titled Human Rights at Home: The United States and Human Rights in the 1980s for the University of Pennsylvania Press. In 2014, Bon Tempo received the College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, University at Albany, SUNY.
Susan Gauss is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research focuses on the history of development, industrialization, race, and inequality in Latin America. Her first book, Made in Mexico, Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s-1940s (2010), examined the political and social causes of urban industrialism in Mexico. She has also published on gender and labor movements, and a co-authored textbook with Lawrence Clayton and Michael Conniff, A New History of Modern Latin America, 3rd Edition (University of California Press, 2017). Her current research is a history of Mexican beer. She teaches on democracy and development, social movements, human rights, and food culture in Latin America. From 2003 to 2016, she taught at the University at Albany, SUNY.
Sam North is a teacher in the social studies department at Ossining High School In Ossining, NY. His specialty is U.S. History. In 2006, Sam began a collaboration with Jillian McRae from the Ossining High School English department to partner with the University in the High School Program on several college level elective course offerings at Ossining High School. These courses include Classism, Racism, Sexism; Latino USA; Intro to African/African-American History; and Concepts of Race and Culture in the Modern World. Jillian and Sam have been co-teaching these courses to Ossining High School students for college credit through the University at Albany's University in the High School program ever since. Sam is also currently working with Brent Glass, Director Emeritus of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, as an educational consultant on the development of curriculum for the Sing Sing Prison Museum.
Debernee S. Privott is Assistant Dean for Public Engagement for the College of Arts & Sciences and Director of the University in the High School Program at the University at Albany.Prior to her service at the University at Albany, she was employed at the Southern Center for Studies in Public Policy at Clark Atlanta University, where she also worked with the Army Environmental Policy Institute. Privott has worked with the Continual Improvement Project, now known as Service Outcomes Action Research, at the University at Albany.Additionally, she has worked with the following: Father Peter Young’s Honor Court Program, the Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities, the New York State Defender’s Association, the District Attorney’s “Bring It to the Courts” Program, and Girls Incorporated of the Greater Capital Region. Privott currently serves as a NEW Leadershiptm Committee Member – a program of the Women's Leadership Academy at the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society. Additionally, she serves on the Instructional Program Advisory Committee of the Niskayuna Central School District.With a passion for meaningful education, Privott has designed a course that encourages applied learning as well as community engagement, which she developed through the University at Albany’s top ranked School of Criminal Justice, where she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. She is a member of the first class of the Leadership Academy of the State University of New York Research Foundation and a past recipient of the University at Albany’s Initiatives For Women President’s Award.She devotes much of her time to community engagement; and she works very closely with the Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York and AVillage, Inc.
Marc J. Selverstone is Associate Professor and Chair of the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. He is the author of Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945-1950(Harvard, 2008), which won the Bernath Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). He is also the editor of A Companion to John F. Kennedy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), consulting editor of the SHAFR Guide to the Literature (Brill, 2017–), and general editor of the Presidential Recordings Digital Edition(Virginia, 2014–). He is currently writing The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam, under contract with Harvard University Press.