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Andy Urban

is an Assistant Professor in the American
Studies and History departments at Rutgers University. He
received his PhD in History from the University of Minnesota in 2009. Professor Urban’s book The Empire of the Home:
Race, Domestic Labor, and the Political Economy of Servitude in the United States, 1850-1920 (NYU Press, forthcoming, 2015), examines how the occupation of domestic service, and the “servant problem” – the voluble and persistent
claims of white middle-class Americans that they were unable to find a suitable source of domestic laborers – reflected
broader anxieties about the maintenance of domestic order
as the United States expanded nationally, ended slavery, and
encountered new sources of labor through immigration. His
research explores the recruitment and contract of African
Americans, Asian immigrants, and European immigrants as domestic servants, and how immigration policies and laws concerning the freedom of mobility supplied laborers for an occupation that was stigmatized in the minds of native-born, white Americans. In addition to his
work on immigration, race, gender, and labor, his research and teaching interests also include
public and legal history, and the cultural history of American landscapes and institutions.
Led by Eleanor Bullock, the Garifuna

Performing Arts Company enables young
people to explore and celebrate the language,
and cultural traditions, and arts of the Garifuna
community. The group demonstrates all aspects
of the Garifuna artistic tradition, including dance,
music, drama, and the literary arts. Among the
group’s educational programs is the Habinaha
Garinagu Language & Performing Arts Program.
The program seeks to promote the Garifuna
language through language immersion and the
performing arts. They achieve this by using lyrics
that are translated from Garifuna to English,
allowing both performers and observers to
understand the the performance.

Louis Masur is an American Cultural historian who focuses on discrete moments and seeks to unpack

their meaning. These moments can be the events of an entire year, or a single photograph, or even a seminal
record album. His most recent book offers a close study of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. He is currently working on two projects, an edited collection of essays on wounded soldiers during the civil war, and a
collection of Bruce Springsteen’s essential interviews.