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Nayan Shah is Professor and Department Chair of American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California. Shah's first book, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (University of California Press, 2001) won the Association of Asian American Studies History Book Prize in 2003. His recent book Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West (University of California Press in 2012) received the American Historical Association Pacific Branch Norris and Carol Hundley Award for Most Distinguished Book on any historical subject.
Lunch will be provided!
Please review the attached papers before the seminar.
Paper 1 - "Forging Intimate Publics"
Paper 2 - "Sun Never Sets"