2026-06-27 –, Room 201 (Seats 42)
This paper proposes to explore the benefits and barriers of teaching a interdisciplinary course (History, Political Science, and Criminal Justice) on North American Borders at a Hispanic Serving Institution with a social justice mission in Chicago even as ICE descended upon our community. My course used bottom up, nonstate, and denationalized perspectives to explore the transnational flows of peoples, goods, and ideas across borders with a special emphasis on the impact of borders and border flows on peoples who live in borderlands regions. We began the semester by learning about a range of concepts and approaches, applied them to specific case studies, and then applied them to arrive at our own set of border policies.
Andrae Marak is a borderlands scholar and a professor of the history and politic science at Roosevelt University. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of four books and over 20 articles and chapters covering a wide range of borderlands issues with a special focus on indigenous peoples.