I’m happy to announce that, with sponsorship from CCHS and the Department, Alvita Akiboh, assistant professor at Yale, will be here to speak about her new book, Imperial Material: National Symbols in the U.S. Colonial Empire (Chicago). The book looks at the U.S. empire through the flags that flew, bills that circulated, and quilts that were sewn throughout the United States’ territories. This event is a homecoming; Imperial Material comes from the award-winning dissertation that Akiboh wrote here at Northwestern. Those who have the pleasure to know Akiboh know her to be not just a sharp historian but a dynamic presenter.
Alvita Akiboh | Imperial Material | Wednesday, May 22, 12:30-1:50, lunch at 12 | Harris 108
Please let me know if you’d like to meet with Akiboh while she’s in town.
Yours,
Daniel
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Daniel Immerwahr
Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence
Associate Chair, History Department
Northwestern University