Climate Refugee Stories, with Tina Shull, UNC Charlotte, 4/9

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CHAT, the Environmental Studies Program, and the Department of Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora invite the Tufts Community to join us April 9 at 4 pm to hear Tina Shull (UNC Charlotte) discuss Climate Refugee Stories. 

Tina Shull is a public historian of race, immigration enforcement, and climate migration in the modern US and World. Her current book project explores the rise of migrant detention in the 1980s as a form counter-insurgency in Reagan’s Cold War on immigrants. Shull has been awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Foundations for her work in immigration detention storytelling, and a National Geographic Documenting Human Migrations education grant for directing the digital history project Climate Refugee Stories.

All are welcome. For questions, contact humanities@tufts.edu.