Speaking

In this informal, one-hour lecture, Prof. Paul Kramer of Vanderbilt University, speaks to his undergraduate students in the course “Writing for Social Change” on some principles and practices to keep in mind when workshopping each other’s writings. He focuses on one-on-one conversations between peers, but much of the lecture can…

How did the US immigration debate get to be so divisive? In this informative talk, historian and writer Paul A. Kramer shows how an “insider vs. outsider” framing has come to dominate the way people in the US talk about immigration — and suggests a set of new questions that could reshape the conversation around whose life, rights and thriving matters.

This lecture and discussion over Zoom covers the practical do’s and don’t’s of launching your first academic book, with an eye towards both the steps you can take to help get your ideas out into the world, and the role this process can play for academic exchange and building and sustaining intellectual community.

This talk at the Spring 2018 Princeton symposium “The Future of the Puerto Rican Body,” held in response to Hurricane Maria and the bankruptcy crisis, uses recent scholarship to explore the historical relationship between Puerto Rican migration to the mainland US and US colonialism in Puerto Rico.

C-SPAN June 22, 2018 A panel of historians discussed U.S. immigration policies and migration patterns to America dating back to the late 19th century. The topics covered in a session titled “The Geopolitics of Migration” include Chinese and Mexican immigration, travel restrictions in the civil rights era, and the criteria…