Collaborators

Ishan Ashutosh

Associate Professor

Phone:

(812) 855-6303

Email:

iashutos@indiana.edu

Ishan Ashutosh’s research focuses on the production of South Asia along two lines of inquiry. The first concerns South Asian diasporas, whose histories and experiences of spatial dispersal and connection reimagine the region through transnational forms of belonging and political solidarities. The second examines social scientific constructions of South Asia, particularly in American geography and its relationship with other social sciences. He has published widely in these areas.

Kate Ekama

Kate Ekama is a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past (LEAP), Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. 

Alex Lichtenstein

Professor

Phone:

(812) 855-7504

Email:

lichtens@indiana.edu

Alex Lichtenstein is Professor of History and American Studies at Indiana University. His publications include Twice the Work of Free Labor, a book that highlights the important role convict labor played in the redevelopment of the post-Civil War south and as a precursor to mass incarceration today. He has recently published Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid, based on a photography exhibit curated at IU and in South Africa, and Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of American Memory. He is co-curator of an exhibit on anti-lynching art and memory as social protest, now on display at the Crispus Attucks Museum in Indianapolis.

Ursula Romero

Outreach Librarian; Assistant Librarian

Phone:

(812) 855-3190

Email:

uromero@iu.edu

Ursula Romero is Outreach Librarian at the Lilly Library, Indiana University’s rare books and manuscripts library, where she has worked since 2019. In this role, she teaches classes on a wide variety of subjects, plans public events, manages the Lilly’s social media accounts, and provides reference services. Ursula is also a Rare Book School-Mellon Cultural Heritage Fellow, and is dedicated to highlighting the lives and stories of historically excluded groups, and to making these stories accessible to students, researchers, and the general public. Her interests include Black history, labor history, and historic fashion.