Book Discussion: 'The New Immigrant Whiteness'
Join us for a book discussion featuring:
Author Claudia Sadowski-Smith, who earned her PhD in English, is a professor of English and American studies in the Department of English at ASU. She specializes in multiethnic U.S. literatures, immigration studies and border studies. Sadowski-Smith’s book, "The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States" (2018), places post-USSR migration in the larger context of the racialization of contemporary U.S. immigrants.
Discussant Iveta Silova, who earned her PhD in comparative education as well as history and political science, is a professor and the director of the Center for the Advanced Studies in Global Education at the ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Born and raised in Soviet Latvia, Silova has since lived and worked in various countries of the former Soviet Union, including Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Belarus. Her research looks at post-socialist education transformations, including in her most recent book, "Childhood and Schooling in (Post)Socialist Societies: Memories of Everyday Life" (2018), which she edited with Nelli Piattoeva and Zsuzsa Millei.
Discussant Laurie Manchester, who earned her PhD in history, is an associate professor in the ASU School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. She is the author of "Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia" which won the 2009 Vucinich Prize from the organization now known as Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. Her current book project focuses on Russian, most of whom were from pious, monarchist families who voluntarily repatriated to the Soviet Union between 1935 and 1960.
Discussant Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, who earned her PhD in history, is an associate professor in the ASU School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. A native of Krakow, Poland, she studies postwar Polish gentile-Jewish relations in 20th century Poland and abroad, antisemitism and ethnic violence, and "rebuilding" of individual and communal lives. Cichopek-Gajraj’s book, "Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia in 1944-1948" (2014), was a finalist of the 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award and a recipient of the 2015 Barbara Heldt Prize Honorable Mention. Her current research project incorporates interviews with Polish Jews and Catholics who came to the United States either as children or teenagers in the first 15 years after World War II.
Dessert will be served at the event.
This event is sponsored by the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies and the Department of English.
Parking is available in the ASU Fulton Center parking garage , which is located on South College Avenue just north of East University Drive in Tempe.