The Lehigh History Seminar brings together scholars for an engaged discussion of pioneering research. Each session highlights a pre-circulated paper on a transnational topic, featuring brief remarks from the author, a faculty response, and a moderated Q&A for the remainder of the time.
Past Seminars
Hannah Kaemmer (McNeil Center, Penn)
Empire Fortified: Engineers, Military Architecture, and the Making of the British World, 1650-1720
April 7, 2026
Kate Brown (MIT)
What Blueberries have Taught Me: Plants as Chemists and Engineers
March 26, 2026
Giovanna Montenegro (SUNY Binghamton)
Moravian Missionaries and their Engagement with Saamaka Environment and Cultural Traditions
March 17, 2026
Nitzan Lebovic (Lehigh University)
Complicity & (bad) Solidarity
March 3, 2026
Owain Lawson (Lehigh University)
Hydro-Logics of Empire: Effective Sovereignty and the Mandate Borders
February 17, 2026
Amanda Herbert (Durham University)
Commerce, Governance, and Empire at the Spa, c. 1740-1840
November 18, 2025
Tiraana Bains (Brown University)
Crown, Company, and Parliament, 1763-1770
October 28, 2025
Brian Yates (St. Joseph’s University)
The Black Panther and the Teaching of African Religion: Coates, Coogler and African Centered Pedagogy
September 16, 2025
Carolyn Biltoft (Geneva Graduate Institute)
A Semiotics of Ethnocide: Minority Rights and Global Media Dynamics, 1919-1994
April 29, 2025
Yanni Kotsonis (NYU)
The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism
April 15, 2025
Caroline Séquin (Lafayette College)
Preventing Marriages Across Racial and Colonial Lines: The Case of French Women and Indochinese Men, 1917-1920
April 8, 2025
Uponita Mukherjee (Fordham University)
Two Histories of Detective Policing: Crime, Prosecution and Investigation in the nineteenth-century English-speaking World
March 4, 2025
Joseph Williams (Lehigh University)
“Where the People Dare Be True:” Nineteenth Century Black Women’s Intellectual Activism and the Case of John W. Jacks
December 3, 2024
Thamyris Almeida (Swarthmore College)
Politics of Remembrance: Araguaia and the Martyrdom of Osvaldo Orlando da Costa
November 19, 2024
Carl Kubler (Carnegie Mellon University)
Beyond Conflict: Global Trade and Everyday Relations between China and the West, 1780-1860
November 12, 2024
Emily Pope-Obeda (Lehigh University)
Deported Americans, Multidirectional Expulsion: U.S. Citizens in an Expanding Global Deportation Regime
September 24, 2024
Paul Barclay (Lafayette College)
Rewarding, Unrewarding, and Re-rewarding Combatants: The Curious History of Imperial Japanese Military Decorations, 1890-1971
April 23, 2024
Laura Robson (Penn State)
The Three Rs of Postwar Internationalism: Refugee, Return, Repatriation (with Arie Dubnov)
April 9, 2024
Cal Parks (Lehigh University)
A Spiritual Monarchy: The Clerical Separation of Church from State in Eighteenth-Century England
March 5, 2024
Emily Pope-Obeda (Lehigh University)
Alternative Destinations, Deportee “Dumping” and International Disputes over the Deportation of Non-Nationals
October 23, 2023
Shellen Wu (Lehigh University)
Geopolitics
September 25, 2023
Samuel Dodge (Lehigh University)
Obligations of Conscience: Personal Sentiment, Authority, and Political Responsibility in Late-Colonial Pennsylvania
September 11, 2023