Sembe Presents at 19th Century Studies Association Conference
Karina Sembe, PhD student in Spanish, recently presented at the 46th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association in New Orleans, LA and received an award for her paper “Across National Borders, Across Color Lines: How a Brazilian Soldier Became a Poster Child for U.S. Abolitionism.” The conference featured multiple interdisciplinary panels, networking sessions, and private tours, including a tour of the Whitney Plantation, which operated in Wallace, LA from 1752 to 1975.