Micol Seigel
Assistant Professor, Program in American Studies
Assistant Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies
Alma Mater: PhD, New York University, 2001
Office: Memorial Hall E M33
Phone: (812) 855-6327
E-mail: mseigel@indiana.edu
Research Interests
Race in the Americas; prisons and policing; militarization; transnational connections, Brazil; popular culture; Latin American studies; history
Courses Recently Taught
AAADS G696, Interdisciplinary Research Methods (graduate syllabus) and AMST G603, Introduction to American Studies (graduate syllabus). Courses taught in the past: Race, Sex, and Popular Culture (syllabus); Historical and Cultural Approaches to AAADS (graduate syllabus); Historical and Cultural Approaches to AAADS (syllabus fall'08); The Body in the Body Politic (flyer fall'08); American Studies of Empire (graduate syllabus); Transnational Americas (syllabus)
Publication Highlights
Uneven Encounters: Racial Construction in Brazil and the United States (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009).
"Black Mothers, Citizen Sons," in Quase-Cidadão: histórias e antropologias da pós-emancipação no Brasil, ed. Flávio dos Santos Gomes and Olívia Gomes da Cunha, Rio de Janeiro: FGV, 2007.
"The Disappearing Dance: Maxixe's Imperial Erasure," Black Music Research Journal, 25 No. 1/2: 93-117, Spring/Fall 2005.
"Beyond Compare: Historical Method after the Transnational Turn," Radical History Review 91, 62-90, Winter 2005.
"World History's Narrative Problem," Hispanic American Historical Review 84, 3 (2004): 431-446.
"Cocoliche's Romp: Fun with Nationalism at Argentina's Carnival," TDR44, 2 (Summer 2000): 56-83. Republished in Latin American Theatre and Performance, ed. Jill Lane (Routledge, forthcoming).
Honors and Awards
- Society for the Humanities Fellowship, Cornell University, 2006-07.
- Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, CSULA, Los Angeles, 2005-06.
- David C. Driskell Center for African Diaspora Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, UMCP, Spring 2003.
- Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, New York University, 2000-2001.
- Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Dissertation Fellowship, affiliate of the Advanced Program in Contemporary Culture, UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro), 1998-99.
- Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, UNICAMP, São Paulo, Winter, 1998.