Keynote
Julia ott
Panelists
MANUEL A. BAUTISTA GONZALEZ
KENDRA D. BOYD
ALVIN A. CAMBA
EMILIE CONNOLLY
TOBIAS EHRENBOLD
DAN ELKIN
AMANDA GIBSON
WILLIAM D. GOLDSMITH
TYLER GRAY GREENE
HANNAH C. GRIGGS
AARON R. HALL
MUSHAHID HUSSAIN
QUINN LESTER
FRASER LIVINGSTON
VIVIAN CHENXUE LU
ANDREW MEADE MCGEE
RACHEL MILLER
KIRSTEN MOORE-SHEELEY
ROBBIE NELSON
ALFREDO R.M. ROSETE
JUSTIN SIMARD
MARGARET STACK
JERMAINE THIBODEAUX
ERIC THOMAS
CORY YOUNG
commenters
SARA BERRY
RYAN CALDER
Jay Driskell
TIFFANY GILL
PERLA GUERRERO
Theresa Runstedtler
Ronald Walters
Andrew Zimmerman
co-organizers
Paige glotzerPhD Candidate
Johns Hopkins Department of History Bio: Paige Glotzer will be joining Harvard University’s Joint Center for History and Economics as a Prize Postdoctoral Fellow in the fall of 2016. Her first book, entitled Building Suburban Power: The Business of Exclusionary Housing Markets, 1890-1960 is currently under contract with Columbia University Press. Paige's most recent article appeared in the May, 2015 issue of the Journal of Urban History where another forthcoming essay will come out in March, 2016. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Business History Conference's K. Austin Kerr Prize, the Maryland Historical Society Lord Baltimore Fellowship, and the Johns Hopkins University Dean’s Teaching Fellowship. Her scholarship has been profiled by The American Historical Association and The Baltimore Sun. In addition to conducting research, she has given talks, tours, and lectures about Baltimore. Paige has taught classes on the history of the American dream, social, and architectural history. When not out walking through Baltimore she can generally be found on Twitter as @apaigeoutofhist |
Jessica Levy
PhD Candidate
Johns Hopkins Department of History Bio: Jessica Levy is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History. Her dissertation, provisionally titled, "From Black Power to Black Empowerment: Transnational Capital and Racial Integration in the United States and South Africa, 1969-2010," explores the rise of black empowerment, including private and government initiatives promoting black business and racial integration into corporations, in the United States and South Africa. She previously has published on the history of black mayoral politics in Atlanta in the Journal of Urban History. Between September 2014 and April 2015, she was a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for African Studies (CAS) at The University of Cape Town in South Africa. She is the recipient of several fellowships, including most recently the Doctoral Fellowship in International Business History at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. |