Faculty in Conversation Series: Antiracist Pedagogy with Greta LaFleur and Dan Martinez HoSang
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Greta LaFleur
Associate Professor American Studies
Yale University
Greta LaFleur is Associate Professor of American Studies. Her research and teaching focus on early North American literary and cultural studies, the history of science, the history of race, the history and historiography of sexuality, and queer & trans studies. Her first book, The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), reveals how eighteenth-century race science contributed to emerging sciences of sex in the colonial Atlantic world. She is currently at work on two new book projects: the first, tentatively titled A Queer History of Sexual Violence (under contract with The University of Chicago Press), examines the role of cultural and legal responses to sexual violence in the development of modern understandings of sexuality. The other, tentatively titled Counter-Empiricisms: Other Human Sciences in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, rewrites the story of early modern and eighteenth-century empiricism as an expansive, embodied form of knowledge-making that not only delimited understandings of humanness and enfranchisement in this period, but also, at times, expanded them.
She is also the editor (with Kyla Schuller) of a special issue of American Quarterly, “Origins of Biopolitics in the Americas” (2019); the editor (with William Huntting Howell) of the first volume of the Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition series, (under contract with Cambridge University Press); the editor (with Benjamin Kahan) of a special issue of GLQ on “The Science of Sex ‘Itself,’” (2022); and the editor (with Anna Klosowska and Masha Raskolnikov) of Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern (forthcoming with Cornell UP, 2021).
LaFleur’s writing has appeared in Early American Literature, Early American Studies, American Quarterly, American Literature, Criticism, The New Republic, and on BLARB: The Blog of the Los Angeles Review of Books and Public Books. LaFleur’s research has been supported by fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study (School of Social Sciences), the American Council of Learned Societies, the Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA), the William Andrews Clark Library at UCLA (Los Angeles, CA), the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University (Providence, RI), and the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA.
Dan Martinez HoSang
Associate Professor Ethnicity Race & Migration and of American Studies
Yale University
Daniel Martinez HoSang is an Associate Professor of Ethnicity Race and Migration and American Studies and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Political Science and serves on the Education Studies Advisory Committee.
His forthcoming books include A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone (University of California Press, fall 2021); Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that Covid Lays Bare (Haymarket Press, Spring 2021, co-edited with Kimberele Crenshaw).
HoSang is the co-author (with Joseph Lowndes) of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and the author of the author of Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California (University of California Press, 2010) which was awarded the 2011 James A Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians.
He is the co-editor of three volumes: Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines (with Kimberle Crenshaw, Luke Harris and George Lipsitz) University of California Press, 2019; Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method and Practice (co-edited with Ramon Gutiérrez and Natalia Molina), University of California Press, 2019; and Racial Formation in the 21st Century (with Oneka LaBennett and Laura Pulido) University of California Press, 2012).
HoSang supports a summer community organizing training program for undergraduate students in conjunction with the Alliance for a Just Society, and a research and advocacy project on Public Reconstruction and organizing campaigns for public goods.
He has a long record of collaboration with community-based organizations and labor unions as a trainer, board member, and advisor with groups including the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), the Alliance for a Just Society, Oakland Kids First!, the Partnership for Safety and Justice, and Forward Together. He is a board member of the African American Policy Forum and the Connecticut Bail Fund.
Through the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, he has taught seminars for K-12 public school teachers on Anti-racist Curriculum and Pedagogy, and works with teachers and youth organizing groups in Connecticut on teaching about racism and racial justice in the K-12 curriculum through the Anti-Racist Teaching & Learning Collective.
Prior to joining the Yale faculty in 2017, HoSang was an Associate Professor (and Department Head) of Ethnic Studies and Political Science at the University of Oregon. He received his BA in History from Wesleyan University and PhD in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California.
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