W.P. Whitsett Research Fellow Lecture
The Department of History at CSUN invites you to attend a lecture on:
Tuesday, October 23rd at 7 p.m.
by Kelly Sisson
Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan in the Program in American Culture and the current W.P. Whitsett Research Fellow.
"Bound for California: Chilean Contract Laborers in the California Gold Rush, 1848–1853"
Ms. Sisson’s research for this subject began as an undergraduate at Stanford University, where her honors thesis on Chileans in the California Gold Rush received the John and Marjorie Hines Prize in American History and the Robert M. Golden Award for Excellence in the Humanities. As the Whitsett Research Fellow, she continued her research in Chile’s national archives in the winter of 2007.Ms. Sisson’s research explores how Chileans “mapped” the physical and social spaces they expected to find in California, the kinds of labor Chileans expected to implement in the Gold fields, and how they responded to conditions in California
The lecture will be held in the Whitsett Room (Sierra Hall 451). A reception will be held after the lecture. Seating is limited, please RSVP to the Department of History at (818) 677-3566 and to obtain parking information.