The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program at Ithaca College presents…a lecture with Dr. Beau Gaitors, Assistant Professor of History at the University Tennessee-Knoxville entitled “Illuminating the Invisible: Black Presence in 19th Century Mexican History”.
Please join us for a virtual talk via Zoom on Thursday, November 4th, 2021 from 12:10PM – 1:05PM Eastern Time. You can click the Zoom link below and register:
https://ithaca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAucOutqzsjGNRtIlW4v1esO_1h1qOIeLck
Beau D.J. Gaitors is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. He is a historian of Latin America with research and teaching emphasis on the economic, political, and social impacts of African descendants in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Latin America after the abolition of slavery. He received his Ph.D. in Latin American History in 2017 from Tulane University, his M.A. in History from Purdue University in 2010, and his B.A. in African Studies and International Relations from Brown University in 2008. His research and teaching interests also focus on the intersections of race, environment, and public health in nineteenth-century Latin America.
Talk is sponsored by The Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Program, the Department of History and the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (CSCRE).