364:. In that same year, he was given the Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Arts and Humanities, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. In 2023, he was given the President's Award for Excellence in Faculty Governance by Brown University. He is a "Distinguished Lecturer" for the Organization of American Historians, and an elected member of the Society of American Historians. He has also been awarded fellowships from the
334:, they concluded that the contradictions of the public "need-to-know" and the private requirement for concealment would likely never be fully resolved, and that "the hotel fascinates us because it sits at the intersection of public and private life. People will always find some of these opportunities to be threatening or dangerous."
301:, focuses on her multiracial, transnational, adopted family in France and the historical contexts of decolonization, civil and human rights, liberalism and utopianism. Recently, he has described this book as a challenge, as well, to the notion of "nation-time" and conventional periodizations in American and world history.
290:, Guterl suggests that the practice of seeing race is more commonplace than we think, and that unjust policing tactics share much with other, apparently benign racial sightlines, from narratives about multiracial adoption to platoon movies to silhouetting to debates about mixed-race children.
308:, published by the University of North Carolina Press, a book about the social and political work of hotels in contemporary American culture. Together, they describe their writing partnership as "a third way," or "a new inquiry space, a space we might both imaginatively inhabit."
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