Dana Elizabeth Weiner
Associate Professor
Undergraduate Officer, History, Ancient Studies, and Applied Digital Programs
Faculty of Arts
History
Waterloo, Ontario
dweiner@wlu.ca
Office:
(548) 889-5043
Expert In
Languages
English
Bio/Research
I have a BA in History (Honours) and Women’s Studies from the University of California at San Diego, and MA and PhD degrees in United States History from Northwestern University.
I have taught at Laurier since 2008, and I enjoy presenting at scholarly conferences and sharing history with...
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I have taught at Laurier since 2008, and I enjoy presenting at scholarly conferences and sharing history with...
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Bio/Research
I have a BA in History (Honours) and Women’s Studies from the University of California at San Diego, and MA and PhD degrees in United States History from Northwestern University.
I have taught at Laurier since 2008, and I enjoy presenting at scholarly conferences and sharing history with broader audiences. I research race and identity, grassroots politics, social reform and debates over rights in early U.S. history. I teach about the development of race in the United States, slavery, the intersection of politics with women's and gender history, activism, the Civil War era, and the myriad changes that the new nation experienced as it unified, expanded and divided in its early centuries of existence. Feel free to stop by office hours to discuss any of these issues, or United States history more generally.
My research explores race, identity, grassroots politics and the historical connections among race, rights, identity, and citizenship. My next book, William Alexander Leidesdorff: Contesting a Life and Afterlife is under contract with University of Nebraska Press. This is a microhistory about the most famous—and perhaps most misunderstood—immigrant of African descent in 1840s California. The book also explores race, mythmaking, and settler colonialism.
I have researched and published about antislavery and antiracist activism in the present day Midwest, the racialization of rights in early 19th century California, and the California "Black Laws." I have focused on citizenship claims and rights activism among California African Americans from 1821-1870, analyzing and re-evaluating nineteenth-century debates between the state and California African Americans over citizenship’s meanings. In recent years I have participated in an institute sponsored by the (U.S.) National Endowment for the Humanities and in a symposium, "Laying Down the Law: Critical Legal Histories of the North American West," sponsored by the William Clements Center at Southern Methodist University and the University of Nebraska. Subsequently, I published a chapter in the edited volume Beyond the Borders of the Law. I also co-organized a symposium, "African Americans in the Nineteenth-Century West," held at Saint Louis University. I am a faculty associate with the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples at York University.
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I have taught at Laurier since 2008, and I enjoy presenting at scholarly conferences and sharing history with broader audiences. I research race and identity, grassroots politics, social reform and debates over rights in early U.S. history. I teach about the development of race in the United States, slavery, the intersection of politics with women's and gender history, activism, the Civil War era, and the myriad changes that the new nation experienced as it unified, expanded and divided in its early centuries of existence. Feel free to stop by office hours to discuss any of these issues, or United States history more generally.
My research explores race, identity, grassroots politics and the historical connections among race, rights, identity, and citizenship. My next book, William Alexander Leidesdorff: Contesting a Life and Afterlife is under contract with University of Nebraska Press. This is a microhistory about the most famous—and perhaps most misunderstood—immigrant of African descent in 1840s California. The book also explores race, mythmaking, and settler colonialism.
I have researched and published about antislavery and antiracist activism in the present day Midwest, the racialization of rights in early 19th century California, and the California "Black Laws." I have focused on citizenship claims and rights activism among California African Americans from 1821-1870, analyzing and re-evaluating nineteenth-century debates between the state and California African Americans over citizenship’s meanings. In recent years I have participated in an institute sponsored by the (U.S.) National Endowment for the Humanities and in a symposium, "Laying Down the Law: Critical Legal Histories of the North American West," sponsored by the William Clements Center at Southern Methodist University and the University of Nebraska. Subsequently, I published a chapter in the edited volume Beyond the Borders of the Law. I also co-organized a symposium, "African Americans in the Nineteenth-Century West," held at Saint Louis University. I am a faculty associate with the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples at York University.
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Media Relations
Aonghus Kealy
Communications and Media Relations Officer
akealy@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4855
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Communications and Media Relations Officer
akealy@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4855
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Media Relations
Aonghus Kealy
Communications and Media Relations Officer
akealy@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4855
Lori Chalmers Morrison
Director: Integrated Communications
lchalmersmorrison@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4857
Vanessa Barrasa
Director: Communications & Issues Management
vbarrasa@wlu.ca
(548) 889-3812
Brantford Campus:
Beth Gurney
Director, Strategic Communications and Community Engagement
bgurney@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4199
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Communications and Media Relations Officer
akealy@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4855
Lori Chalmers Morrison
Director: Integrated Communications
lchalmersmorrison@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4857
Vanessa Barrasa
Director: Communications & Issues Management
vbarrasa@wlu.ca
(548) 889-3812
Brantford Campus:
Beth Gurney
Director, Strategic Communications and Community Engagement
bgurney@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4199
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