Faculty News

Liza Black gave a talk on October 6 to the Unitarian Universalist Church in Bloomington on missing and murdered indigenous women.

Cara Caddoo recently identified the earliest surviving fragment of a Black-produced film in American history—made four years before the earliest known extant footage from a race film company, Oscar Micheaux’s “Within Our Gates” (1920). The Library of Congress will announce the discovery later this month.

Michael Dodson's book, Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India, 1870-1930 (Routledge, 2020) has been published in paperback for the US and European markets.

Ellen Wu was the featured guest on HERE'S WHERE IT GETS INTERESTING, a top 1% podcast hosted by Sharon McMahon, "America's Government Teacher." Wu spoke on Episode #185, "Resilience: Asian Immigration and the American West Coast," the first in a twelve-part series on the World War II-era incarceration of Japanese Americans.