Center for Ethics to Host “Racial Borders: Law and Citizenship in the United States, 1787-2009”
The Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics will host Dr. Deborah Rosen, head of the history department at Lafayette College, as a speaker for their series Politics, Ethics & Citizenship.Friday, February 27, 2009 11:22 AM
Rosen’s presentation, “Racial Borders: Law and Citizenship in the United States, 1787-2009,” will be held Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 4:30 p.m. in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Rosen will discuss the changing racial borders of citizenship in American history. Specifically, she will analyze the evolution of constitutional law pertaining to African Americans’ citizenship, the complex debate about American Indian citizenship, and the “whiteness” prerequisite for naturalization of immigrants.
Rosen holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. She teaches early American and American legal history at Lafayette College where she also serves as head of the department. Her books include the recently published American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790-1880 (Nebraska, 2007), and Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law, and the Market Economy in Colonial New York (Ohio State, 1997). She is also co-editor of Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and Laws, 1607-1789.
Politics, Ethics and Citizenship is presented in cooperation with the Political Science Department’s Election Series and co-sponsored by the Lectures and Forums Committee, with assistance from the Departments of Art, Media & Communication and Theatre & Dance, and the Muhlenberg Activities Council and the Multicultural Center.
For more information on this event or other Center for Ethics programs, please visit www.muhlenberg.edu/cultural/ethics.
Muhlenberg College gratefully acknowledges the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation’s support of the Center for Ethics.
