Organizers
| A. Aneesh Senior Director, International Affairs & Outreach Associate Professor, Sociology and Global Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
Mark R. Brand Conference Coordinator PhD Candidate, English University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
Speakers
| Sukanya Banerjee Diversity in the Time of the Liberal: A Colonial Tale |
Daphne W. Ntiri Transformative Learning and Adult Literacy: An Autoethnographic Study of a Female African Immigrant |
| Cary Gabriel Costello Global Diversity in Sex Categories and Gender Identities: Resistance to Binarist Colonialism |
Tasha G. Oren From Home Dish to Worldly Plate: American Cooking, Television, and the Emergence of Contemporary Food Culture |
| Andrew Deener Market Distinction in the Age of Excess: the Transformation of Infrastructure and the Food System |
Lousia Schein The Devil in the Profile: Revisiting Asian Masculinities |
| Ryan Holifield Diversity, Disproportionate Impact, and EPA Policy: The Challenge of Addressing Difference in Environmental Justice Communities |
Caroline Seymour-Jorn The Role of Intersectionality in Theorizing Social Justice Activism in Muslim Milwaukee |
| Jennifer Kibicho Economic Self-Help Support Groups and the Syndemics of Sexual Risky Behaviors, Alcohol Misuse, Violence, and Economic Vulnerability |
Maurice Stierl Migration Resistances in a Bordered World |
| Peggy Levitt Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display |
Lok Siu Hemispheric Internment: Japanese Latin Americans in WWII |
| Anna Mansson McGinty Everyday Embodiment of Citizenship and Religion: Narratives of Belonging Among Muslim American Youth |
Natasha Borges Sugiyama Making the Newest Citizens: Achieving Universal Birth Registration in Contemporary Brazil |
| Walter Benn Michaels Diversity: The OxyContin of the Professional Managerial Class |
Chia Youyee Vang Exile, Identity Formation, and Placemaking: The Hmong Refugee Experiment in French Guiana, 1977-2015 |
| Blain Neufeld Citizenship Education and Nondomination in Diverse Democratic Societies |
Frederick Wherry Diversity Out of Place: From Artisanal Markets to Financially Inclusive Banking |
| Kumkum Sangari Denationalization and the Politics of Heterogeneity |
Erin N. Winkler Rethinking Notions of Diversity: Children’s Understandings of Race |
Moderators
| Ivan Ascher Assistant Professor, Political Science University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
Peter Paik Associate Professor, French, Italian, and Comparative Literature University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| Erica Bornstein Associate Professor, Anthropology University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
Jason Puskar Associate Professor, English University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| Kennan Ferguson Director, Center for 21st Century Studies Associate Professor, Political Science University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
Nigel Rothfels Director, Office of Undergraduate Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| Lane Hall Professor, English University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Assistant Professor, English and Film Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| Andrew Kincaid Associate Professor, English University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
W. Warner Wood Associate Professor, Anthropology University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |