Fesler-Lampert Recipients
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2009-2010 Recipient |
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Donna Gabaccia, professor of history and 2009-10 Fesler-Lampert Chair, will create and direct a small team of University-based researchers and community-based immigrant youth and archivists to create, collect, digitize, and analyze life writings by undergraduate and high school students from the three largest immigrant and refugee groups in the Twin Cities--Hmong, Mexican, and Somali--who either arrived in the United States at a young age or were born here. Life writings are important supplements to traditional oral histories and autobiographies and help scholars to understand the identities and viewpoints of immigrants and their children. |
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2007-2008 Recipients |
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Erika Lee, recipient of the Fesler-Lampert Professorship, plans to re-examine America’s immigrant past from comparative, interdisciplinary, and transnational perspectives. A story that is relatively untold, it promises to redefine the parameters of immigration history. |
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Riv-Ellen Prell, Fesler-Lampert Chair recipient, will analyze the various institutional efforts to socialize young Jews growing up in the post-World War II era, in order to foster an identity that is both Jewish and American. Her project will make important contributions to the literature on assimilation, diversity, and identity. |
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