Talented history Ph.D. students shine in the Borderland Stories Conference publication

The annual Borderland Stories conference, which Dr. Karen Marrero helps coordinate, involves students on both sides of our international border. Participants from the 2018 conference were given the opportunity to submit their papers for inclusion in an electronic collection, edited by graduate students and faculty mentors from the Department of History at the University of Windsor.

Ph.D. student Mitch Fleischer is represented here with a very original and interesting paper he wrote for in Marrero's HIS 8010 course comparing race-based "re-districting" of Detroit's neighborhoods after the Great Fire of 1805 and in the mid-20th century.

Doctoral students Tom Cragg and Leon Bates are also represented. Cragg compares and contrasts wealth inequality across time in the 19th century in Ontario and Michigan and Bates wrote about the transnational efforts of John Freeman, a former black slave fleeing American slave catchers, to maintain his freedom by utilizing the Canadian/U.S. border.

Read the publication here: Borderland Stories Conference 2018