Tag: violence
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[Upcoming] Working Group, Diana Anselmo
Diana Anselmo, a film and media studies researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, will be presenting her current project on the experiences of working-class immigrant women during the 1910s. She will provide a microhistorical account of the physical, mental, and social injuries inflicted on a working-class immigrant woman who eventually committed suicide in Chicago.
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[Upcoming] Working Group, Jennifer Uribe
Jennifer Uribe, a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at UCLA, will workshop a draft of one of their dissertation chapters. Jennifer examines the ways infrastructural neglect contributes to injuries and collective trauma, exacerbating social inequities in urban communities.
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Working Group, Kaushiki Arha
Kaushiki Arha, a Ph.D. candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University, presented part of her dissertation project, which explores the gendered legal and social adjudication of sexual violence in India. Her project considers how the changing definition of rape from a physical assault to a violation of consent has paradoxically made prosecuting cases of sexual violence more difficult.
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Working Group, Joanna Paxton Federico
Joanna Paxton Federico, a Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers workshopped the first chapter of her dissertation, which explores the emergence of violence as an object of public health interest in the 1960s and early 1970s. Much of her project focuses on the production of ignorance (agnotology) around the effects of gun violence, and her work delves into…