Associate Professors of History Mackenzie Cooley and Celeste Day Moore, Visiting Professor of History Ty Seidule, and Garrin Brandl ’27 recently participated in the 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA). The four-day event took place at several venues in New York City.
Cooley presented a paper, “Critters of the Tianguis: Wet Markets at the Nexus of American–European Medicine,” in a session titled “Multispecies Colonialism: Human– Animal Encounters in the 16th-Century Iberian Atlantic World.”
Moore’s paper, “Voicing America: Georges Collinet, Leo Sarkisian, and the Sounds of the US State,” was presented in a session on “Sound, Silences, and State Power: Listening to Music and War in the Late 20th Century.”
Seidule was a panel member for “Historians Engaged in Public Policy.”
In addition, Brandl presented “Historical Pharmacopeias: Measurement and the Making of Medicine” in an undergraduate poster session.
According to the AHA website, the organization was founded in 1884 and now, with some 10,500 members, is “the largest membership association of historians in the world.” It “defends academic freedom, develops professional standards, supports innovative scholarship and teaching, and helps to sustain and enhance the work of historians.”
