Center for European Studies 2018 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow Romeyn studies the intersection of Holocaust memory and migration politics in the Netherlands. She argues that one way the presence of migrants and their descendants is problematized is through the supposed lack of a “shared” past, in particular WWII and the Holocaust. In the Netherlands, and […]
Ph.D. Candidate, Education 2018-2019 Rothman Doctoral Fellow Currin’s research addresses the “Age of Accountability,” a decades-long period defined by top-down education reforms that position teachers as both the problem and the potential solution for America’s so-called failing public schools. This, Currin argues, leads to increased teacher stress, a loss of creativity, and a shift in […]
Ph.D. Candidate, History 2018-2019 Rothman Doctoral Fellow Strickland researched the lives of enslaved people on Codrington Plantation on Barbados and the role of religious conversion that occurred there from 1710 to emancipation in 1838.