Episode 47: Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof on Transnational Migration from the Caribbean
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In a wide-ranging conversation, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, a new faculty member in Harvard's History Department, looks at ethnic studies in the context of the Supreme Court's recent decision on affirmative action, as well as innovative digital humanities research, immigration justice and transnational migration from the Caribbean. His research and teaching focus on the history of Latinx people in the United States, the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, immigration and asylum law, publicly engaged humanities, and digital humanities. He is also the third Harvard senior faculty member dedicated to the teaching and scholarship of ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration.
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