Comparative Border Studies-Spring 2012 Colloquium with Dr. Rachel St John

Friday, Feb. 24, Noon-2 p.m.

This event is coordinated by: Transborder Studies
College of LIberal Arts and Sciences
Comparative Border Studies
Location: Interdisciplinary B Room 161
Campus: Tempe
Cost: Free and open to the public

Rachel St. John, associate professor of history at Harvard University, will discuss here first book, "Line in the Sand: A history of the Western U.S.--Mexico border".
Her research focuses on nineteenth and twentieth century North American history with a particular emphasis on state-‐formation and nation-‐building. She teaches courses in 19th-‐century United States history, transnational borderlands history, environmental history, and the history of the U.S. West. Her first book, "Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-‐Mexico Border", was published by Princeton University Press in early 2011. She is currently working on a new book, "The Imagined States of America: Nation-‐building in Nineteenth-‐century North America", which will explore the diverse range of nation-‐building projects that emerged throughout North America in the nineteenth century.