Webinar Series

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.

Fall 2024 Series Schedule

The Insular Cases and Contested Citizenship
    Robert McGreevey (College of New Jersey)

October 29, 9:30-10:30 am CT
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Join our HIST 115: And Justice For All class for a discussion with guest speaker Professor Robert McGreevey, author of Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration.


Asian Americans Confront U.S. Law and Policy: From the Chinese Exclusion Laws to the Vietnamese Experiences at Camp Pendleton
    Linda Ho Peché (Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive)

November 21 , 9:30-10:30 am CT
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Join our HIST 115: And Justice For All class for a discussion with guest speaker Professors Linda Ho Peché, moderated by Mellon Research Assistant Professor Donna D. Anderson, about immigration law and Asian-American legal perspectives in U.S. history.


The Carceral State: Legal Histories of American Unfreedom 
     Taja-Nia Henderson (Rutgers University-Newark)

November 26, 9:30-10:30 am CT
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Join our HIST 115: And Justice For All class for a discussion with guest speaker Professor Taja-Nia Henderson, author of "The Ironic Promise of the Thirteenth Amendment for Offender Anti-Discrimination Law."

Previous Webinars

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) 
     September 28, 2023