The Mellon-funded U.S. Law and Race Initiative Webinar Series explores new approaches to research, teaching, and public engagement with the history of law, race, and racialization in the United States. Moderated and hosted by Katrina Jagodinsky, Jeannette Eileen Jones, and William G. Thomas III, the webinar series features guest speakers, scholars, lawyers, jurists, community members, students, and others who are doing innovative and inspiring work to help us understand the development of U.S. law and race.
Recordings of previous webinars are available on the U.S. Law and Race Initiative's MediaHub Channel.
Spring 2025 Series Schedule
More Than a Snapshot: Will Brown's Lynching and the Violence of History
Ashley Howard (University of Iowa)
February 13, 9:30-10:30 am CT
Zoom Event
Join our Rights & Wrongs in American Legal History class for a discussion with guest speaker Professor Ashley Howard on racial violence in the Midwest, moderated by Dr. Katrina Jagodinsky.
The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution
Keith Richotte, Jr. (University of Arizona)
March 6, 9:30-10:30 am CT
Zoom Event – Register
Join our Rights & Wrongs in American Legal History class for a discussion with guest speaker Professor Keith Richotte, Jr., about the Supreme Court's understanding of Native America from an Indigenous perspective, moderated by Dr. Katrina Jagodinsky.
Previous Webinars
The Carceral State: Legal Histories of American Unfreedom
Taja-Nia Henderson (Rutgers University-Newark)
November 26, 2024
Asian Americans Confront U.S. Law and Policy: A Case Study of the Vietnamese Impact on Defining the "Refugee"
Linda Ho Peché (Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive)
November 21, 2024
The Insular Cases and Contested Citizenship
Robert McGreevey (College of New Jersey)
October 29, 2024
From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in the 20th Century U.S.
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine (California State University, San Bernardino)
April 18, 2024
Vanguard: Black Women and the Right to Vote
Martha S. Jones (Johns Hopkins University)
April 9, 2024
Killers of the Flower Moon Roundtable Discussion
Angel Hinzo, Anne Gregory (UNL), Jordana Bass (Vision Maker Media), Renee Sans Souci (Community Educator)
March 27, 2024
Equal Protection, Reconstruction, and the Meaning of the 14th Amendment
Sharlene Sinegal-DeCuir (Xavier University) and Kate Masur (Northwestern University)
November 2, 2023
Affirmative Action's Origins and Legacies
Eric Berger, Danielle Jefferis, and Catherine Wilson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
October 26, 2023
U.S. Constitutionalism and Native American Sovereignty
Ned Blackhawk (Yale University)
September 28, 2023