Anore Horton to Deliver Annual Algie Newlin Lecture Nov. 8 at Guilford
History professor Anore Horton will give the Algie I. Newlin Lecture, entitled "What Good is Citizenship? Learning from Puerto Rican Migrants' Experiences in the 1950's" Thursday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Joseph Bryan Jr. Auditorium in the Frank Family Science Center at Guilford.
Horton will share what drew her to her current research focus on the complex historical relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States. She will focus on Puerto Ricans who migrated to the U.S. as citizens in the 1950s, but who were not treated as, and did not fully experience themselves as, true U.S. citizens. Her talk will address how the case of Puerto Ricans raises larger questions about how much citizenship has or has not mattered for different groups within the U.S., using letters written by Puerto Rican migrant workers themselves to explore how they understood their own citizenship experiences in the post-World War II era.
Horton is an assistant professor of history and international studies, with a research emphasis on migration and citizenship in the Americas, and a teaching emphasis on modern United States and Latin American history. She received her bachelor of arts degree in history and religion from Reed College in Portland, Ore., her master of arts in teaching from the University of San Diego and her master’s in history from Princeton University, and is currently completing her doctorate at Princeton.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.guilford.edu or call 336-316-2226.
The Algie I. Newlin Lecture, sponsored annually by the history department, honors a key member of the department from 1924-66.
Nov. 8, 2007