Gary Gerstle, professor of history and director of the Center for Historical Studies at the University of Maryland, presents, "Race, Nation, and Immigration in the Twentieth Century,"as part of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center speaker series "Immigration and Global Citizenship." Gerstle will lecture on Thurs., April 24, at 8 p.m. in the KJ Auditorium.
Gerstle is the author of Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960 and American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. The latter was the winner of the 2002 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, sponsored by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. Gerstle has received numerous fellowships, including an NEH and a Guggenheim, and is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. He has lectured throughout the United States and in France, England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Israel, Japan and Brazil. He co-edits a book series, Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America, for Princeton University Press.
