Coffee will be served at 3:30pm. The event will start at 4:00pm.
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Speaker
Jordan Howell is a historian of the United States in the world, with a focus on the Caribbean. He writes and teaches about empire, capitalism, and the environment. Howell’s first book, Imperial Crucible: Working for Alcoa in the Age of Empire (under contract with Columbia University Press), is about the Aluminum Company of America. It tells the story of a company that generated handsome fortunes for its founders, embroiled itself in political debates about private power in public life, and dammed rivers, built smelters, and dug mines across the American, British, and Dutch empires. At the heart of this corporate drama was a transimperial working class that built and fought Alcoa in the twentieth century.
Howell’s research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies of American History.
About the International History Seminar
If you are interested in attending this semester’s events and joining the International History Seminar, please send an email confirming your interest to the Hayes Chair Graduate Research Associate, Ian Gammon, at hayeschairgra@osu.edu, and you will be included on the mailing list going forward. Materials will only be pre-circulated to people on the mailing list.
