Event
Annenberg Seminar in History (Virtual)
Lacy Feigh, University of Pennsylvania, Gabriel Raeburn, University of Pennsylvania
Graduate Work in Progress
Please read the pre-circulated papers here:
Feigh-"Punishing Slavery: Enforcing Abolition in Southwest Ethiopia, 1942-1952
Lacy Feigh (UPenn) - "Punishing Slavery: Enforcing Abolition in Southwest Ethiopia, 1942-1952”
Lacy Feigh is a Ph.D. candidate in History specializing in the Horn of Africa in the second half of the nineteenth and throughout the twentieth century. Her dissertation utilizes travelogues, literature, and art to examine the legacies of slavery and empire and their impact on the construction of racial identity in Ethiopia. Supported by Fulbright and the SSRC IDRF, Lacy’s work draws on research in Ethiopia, Egypt, the UK, and Switzerland. Before beginning graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, Lacy also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Yirgalem, Ethiopia.
Gabriel Raeburn (UPenn) - "Broadcasting Against the State: The Rise of Televangelism in the Post-Civil Rights Era, 1975 - 1988 "
Gabriel Raeburn is a Ph.D. candidate in Religious Studies and History, working at the intersection of religion and politics, and the histories of race, inequality and evangelicalism in the United States throughout the twentieth century. His dissertation challenges prevailing narratives on the rise of the Religious Right, by focusing on Pentecostals and charismatics, predominantly located in Oklahoma and the South-West, who built the Prosperity Gospel in the postwar period. Prior to coming to the University of Pennsylvania, Gabriel studied at the University of Sussex and the University of Oxford. His dissertation is under the supervision of Anthea Butler (supervisor), Sarah Barringer Gordon, Brent Cebul and Kevin Kruse (Princeton).