| INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION | |
| Professor: | |
| Prof. Konstantin Dierks (pronouns: he/him) |
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| E-mail: | kdierks@iu.edu [Please put A235 in the subject line of any email. And please email directly, rather than via Canvas.] |
| Office hours: | Thursdays, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Ballantine 830 |
| Course Assistants: | |
| Paloma Czapla (pronouns: she/her) |
Doctoral student specializing in photography, race, gender, and carcerality through Black feminist theory and archival studies. My research examines Brazilian police archives from the post-emancipation era, focusing on how Black and marginalized women were visually portrayed and their efforts to refuse subjection and craft meaningful lives. |
| E-mail: | pczapla@iu.edu |
| Office hours: | [** location], Tuesdays, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., or by appointment |
| Esmerelda Del Rio (pronouns: she/her) |
First-year doctoral student working on transnational environmental history in the eighteenth century, focused on edible and medicinal plants from indigenous knowledge in Las Californias, particularly Baja and Alta California. |
| E-mail: | esdelrio@iu.edu |
| Office hours: | [** location], Tuesdays, 1:00-2:00 p.m., or by appointment |
| Jakob Myers (pronouns: they/them) |
Doctoral student focusing on crisis, slavery, and empire in 19th Century Oceanic East Africa.. |
| E-mail: | jm173@iu.edu |
| Office hours: | **, or by appointment |