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Department of American Studies College of Arts and Sciences
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Micol Seigel

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Associate Professor
Department of American Studies
African American and African Diaspora Studies

Office: Memorial Hall East M33
Phone: (812) 855-6327
E-mail: mseigel at indiana.edu

Education

Ph.D., New York University, 2001

Research Interests

Race in the Americas; racial theory; transnational method; popular culture; Brazil; Latin American studies; history; mass incarceration; the Cold War; postcolonial and queer theory; Cultural Studies

Courses Recently Taught

  • AMST-A399 / AAAD-A354: Advanced Topics in Society & History: Transnational Americas (Indiana, Fall 2008)
  • SHUM 419 (also AS&RC 419): Transnational Method Then & Now: Historiography, Theory, Practice (Cornell, Fall 2006)
  • Liberal Studies 410: National Identity, Race and Popular Culture: Chicana Feminist Performance (Cal State L.A., Spring 2006)

Publication Highlights

Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009).

"Black Mothers, Citizen Sons," in Quase-Cidadão: histórias e antropologias da pós-emancipação no Brasil, ed. Flávio dos Santos Gomes and Olívia Gomes da Cunha, Rio de Janeiro: FGV, 2007.

"The Disappearing Dance: Maxixe's Imperial Erasure," Black Music Research Journal, 25 No. 1/2: 93-117, Spring/Fall 2005.

"Beyond Compare: Historical Method after the Transnational Turn," Radical History Review 91, 62-90, Winter 2005.

"World History's Narrative Problem," Hispanic American Historical Review 84, 3 (2004):  431-446.

"Cocoliche's Romp:  Fun with Nationalism at Argentina's Carnival," TDR44, 2 (Summer 2000):  56-83.  Republished in Latin American Theatre and Performance, ed. Jill Lane (Routledge, forthcoming).

Honors and Awards

  • American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)/Oscar Handlin Fellowship for Research in American History, 2012
  • Finalist Mention, Lora Romero first book prize of the American Studies Association, 2010, for Uneven Encounters
  • Society for the Humanities Fellowship, Cornell University, 2006-07
  • Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, CSULA, Los Angeles, 2005-06
  • David C. Driskell Center for African Diaspora Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, UMCP, Spring 2003
  • Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, New York University, 2000-2001
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Dissertation Fellowship, affiliate of the Advanced Program in Contemporary Culture, UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro), 1998-99
  • Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, UNICAMP, São Paulo, Winter, 1998