Event

A More Perfect Union: Histories of Voting in America

Event Speaker
Hardeep Dhillon and William Sturkey
Event Organizers
Arch 108
3601 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA

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SCHEDULE:

10:30 am
Breakfast


10:45 am
Opening Remarks
Dr. Hardeep Dhillon, Penn


11 am
The Promise and Limits of Electoral Democracy in the Early United States
Dr. Mark Boonshoft, Virginia Military Institute
Chair: Dr. Karen Tani, Penn

 

11:45 am
The Rise and Fall of Black & Woman Suffrage During Reconstruction
Dr. Manisha Sinha, University of Connecticut
Chair: Dr. Mia Bay, Penn

 

12 pm
Lunch

 

1:15 pm
Disenfranchisement and the Fight for Chinese American Suffrage
Dr. Beth Lew-Williams, Princeton
Chair: Dr. Fariha Khan, Penn

 

2 pm 
Purging the Electorate
Dr. Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Cornell University
Chair: Dr. Chenoa Flippen, Penn

 

3 pm 
Student Voices
Moderator: Dr. William Sturkey, Penn

This event is in partnership with Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration (CSERI), Penn Migration Initiative (PMI), Penn History, Asian American Studies (ASAM), McNeil Center for Early American Studies (MCEAS), Pan-Asian American Community House (PAACH), Greenfield Intercultural Center, the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy (AMC), Africana Studies, and Penn Carey Law.