In the academic year 2021-2022, the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies (IHGMS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the Five Colleges to explore the topic of “Race, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in Global Perspective,” including Alon Confino, Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies, Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Director, Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies. The project organizers are Iyko Day, Elizabeth C. Small Associate Professor in the Department of English and Chair of Critical Social Thought at Mount Holyoke College, and Adam Dahl, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Participants:
Jennifer Bajorek
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Visual Studies, Hampshire College
Project Description: Artists and activists visualizing contemporary migration with a focus on the representation of African and Black sites and subjects.
Sony Coráñez Bolton
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Amherst College
Project Description: The queer of color and settler colonial politics of Filipinx American Fiction.
Robert B. Caldwell, Jr.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, Hampshire College
Project Description: Thematic-historical maps of American Indian homelands, languages, and culture areas.
Alon Confino
Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies, Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Director, Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Project Description: Palestine, 1948.
Laura Doyle
Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Project Description: How long-historical analyses of culture and political economy (beginning before European hegemony) can move us past Eurocentric narratives and bridge decolonial and postcolonial perspectives.
Laura M. Furlan
Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Project Description: The archives of Native American literature.
Dana Leibsohn
Professor of Art and Latin American and Latino/a Studies, Smith College
Project Description: Mobility in light of Indigenous, Russian, and Spanish travel and settlement along the Pacific coasts of North America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Susana Loza
Associate Professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Media Studies, Hampshire College
Project Description: The settler colonial and gothic traces in contemporary horror television and film.
Christen Mucher
Associate Professor of American Studies, Smith College
Project Description: College Herbaria, seed collection, and science education as settler colonialism.
Kevin Surprise
Visiting Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Mount Holyoke College
Project Description: The political economy of climate change.
Dan Tsahor
Visiting scholar at the History Department and at Jewish and Near Eastern Studies,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Project Description: The Postwar Nakba: Exclusion and Resistance in the New State of Israel, 1949-1953.
This article was originally posted by the UMass Amherst Institute for Holocause, Genocide, and Memory Studies.