Feminist Research Alliance Workshop
Founded in 2010, the Feminist Research Alliance Workshop advances and energizes interdisciplinary conversation and collaboration among feminist scholars locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. At our convivial meetings, faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars present and discuss research-in-progress. A fertile space for idea-incubation, the workshop also is community-building, enabling students and faculty to network with potential committee members, mentors, and colleagues beyond the boundaries of their home departments. All events are free and open to the public.
SPRING 2024 Events
February 21, 2024 - 12PM (EST) via Zoom
"'Our dimness brightened in her smile': Sex, Race, and Latinidad in US Higher Education, 1900-1920."
Pablo Mitchell, Thomas B. Lockwood Professor of Latinx History, University at Buffalo
Pablo Mitchell is the Thomas B. Lockwood Professor of Latinx History at the University at Buffalo and is the author of a textbook on Latina/o History (Understanding Latino History: Excavating the Past, Examining the Present) as well as Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 and West of Sex: Making Mexican America, 1900-1930. He also recently completed a Queer Pasts digital history project, “Reclamation Projects: An Archive of Queer Latinidad." His current research examines the history of Latino/as in US colleges and universities.
April 17, 2024 - 12PM (EDT) via Zoom
"Care Work, the Problem of the Archive, and the Predicament of the 21st-Century Feminist Worker"
Kari Winter, Professor of American Studies, Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, University at Buffalo
Professor of American Studies in the Department of Global Gender Studies, Kari J. Winter is a historian, literary critic and screen writer who has served as the Director of the UB Gender Institute (2011-17) and Executive Director of the UB Humanities Institute (interim, 2017-18). She has published three books and many articles on gender, slavery, and resistance in the Atlantic worlds of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
April 25, 2024 - 12PM (EDT) via Zoom
"Suzanne Simon Baptiste Louverture: Microbiography and Black Women’s Lives"
Robin Mitchell, Associate Professor, Department of History, University at Buffalo
Robin Mitchell is an award-winning Associate Professor in the Department of History, and the College of Arts and Sciences Endowed Professor, at the University at Buffalo. She is a 19th century French historian, specializing in discourses about race, gender, and sexuality. She received her doctorate in Late Modern European History from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. In addition to several published journal articles, and her first book, Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France (University of Georgia Press, 2020), Dr. Mitchell is currently writing the first biography of Suzanne Simone Baptiste, also known as Madame Toussaint Louverture. It is currently under contract with Princeton University Press.