Humanities Now

Alumni College Fellows III: New Perspectives on Freedom, Culture, and Identity

May 26, 2021 The Humanities Center at Texas Tech Season 1 Episode 7
Humanities Now
Alumni College Fellows III: New Perspectives on Freedom, Culture, and Identity
Show Notes

On this episode, we continue visiting with our 2020-2021 Alumni College Fellows as they lead us in conversation on the relationship between who we are, how much freedom we possess, and the cultures we navigate in establishing either of the two.  We hear from Dr. Dale Kretz, Assistant Professor of History, who discusses African Americans' engagement with the federal government after the Civil War; Dr. Lesley Wolff, Assistant Professor of Latinx and Latin American Art History, who speaks with us about foodways and indigeneity in post-revolutionary Mexico City; and Dr. Alan Barenberg, Buena Vista Foundation Associate Professor of History, who talks about his current research on the Soviet government's punitive use of hard labor beginning in the 1940s.