Papers Presented 2019 “The Pacific Northwest in a German World: Travel Accounts, Ethnographies, and Exhibits, 1885–1905.” German Studies Association, Forty-Third Annual Conference (Portland, OR). 6 October. 2018 “Anxious Germans: War, Caricature, and American Empire, 1914–1918.” German Studies Association, Forty-Second Annual Conference (Pittsburgh, PA). 29 September. 2018 “Latvians as Cold Warriors: Diaspora Latvians Visiting the SovietContinue reading “Conferences”
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Aural Transit: Soundscapes of Urban Movement
Aural Transit: Soundscapes of Urban Movement is a side project that I began in Summer 2017 after becoming interested in the use of sound in undermining or asserting relationships of power in public transit. Inspired by The Acoustic City, Matthew Gandy, Benny Nilsen (eds.), I decided to produce my own recordings of Toronto’s urban life.Continue reading “Aural Transit: Soundscapes of Urban Movement”
Text, in progress
I am currently working on three projects: The first traces German anxiety about US empire from the and of the Spanish-American war in 1898 to the Great Depression. The second analyzes the memories of diaspora Latvians living in Canada who visited the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (LSSR) from 1970 to 1990. The third examines theContinue reading “Text, in progress”