Event

A More Perfect Union: Histories of Voting in America Program

10:45am
Opening Remarks
Dr. Hardeep Dhillon, Penn

11am
The Promise and Limits of Electoral Democracy in the Early United States
Dr. Mark Boonshoft, Virginia Military Institute
Chair, Dr. Karen Tani, Penn

11:45am
The Rise and Fall of Black & Woman Suffrage During Reconstruction
Dr. Manisha Sinha, University of Connecticut
Chair, Dr. Mia Bay, Penn

1:15pm
Disenfranchisement and the Fight for Chinese American Suffrage
Dr. Beth Lew-Williams, Princeton
Chair, Dr. Fariha Khan, Penn

2pm
Purging the Electorate
Dr. Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Cornell University
Chair, Dr. Chenoa Flippen, Penn

3pm
Student Voices
Moderator, Dr. William Sturkey, Penn

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Breakfast 10:30am
Lunch 12pm
 

In partnership with Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration (CSERI), Penn Migration Initiative (PMI), Penn History, Asian American Studies (ASAM), McNeil Center for Early American Studies

 (MCEAS), Pan-Asian American Community House (PAACH), Greenfield Intercultural Center, the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy (AMC), Africana Studies, and Penn Carey Law.