Seminar Leader:
Carole Shammas, University of Southern California
2025-2026
Saturday, September 13, 2025
American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man’s Democracy, 1750-1850
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Roger’s Classroom
10:30 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
RSVP by September 5 to receive pre-circulated materials.
Saturday, October 18, 2025
“Service and Circulation: The Chichimeca Diaspora (New Spain 1570-1600)”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Steven’s Classroom
10:30 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
RSVP by October 10 to receive pre-circulated materials.
This event is co-sponsored by the EMSI Linda and Harlan Martens Economic History Forum.
Thursday, December 4, 2025
“Toward a Maritime History of the Caribbean”
USC, University Park Campus
Doheny Memorial Library, DML 241
4:30 – 6:00 pm (PT)
RSVP by November 28 to receive pre-circulated materials.
This event is co-sponsored by the EMSI Linda and Harlan Martens Economic History Forum.
Saturday, January 17, 2026
“Why the American Revolution must End”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Steven’s Classroom
10:30 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
RSVP by January 9 to receive pre-circulated materials.
This event is co-sponsored by the EMSI Linda and Harlan Martens Economic History Forum.
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
“Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America”
USC, University Park Campus
Doheny Memorial Library, DML 110C
4:30 – 6:00 pm (PT)
RSVP by January 26 to receive pre-circulated materials.
Saturday, February 7, 2026
“‘The Phippses of Cape Coast Castle: An Afro-English Family living between Fetu and England”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Roger’s Classroom
10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
RSVP by January 30 to receive pre-circulated materials.
Co-sponsored by the EMSI British History Seminar.
Thursday, February 26, 2026
“How to Sue a Missouri Gambler: Civil Lawsuits in the Federal Territories, 1805-1819”
USC, University Park Campus
Doheny Memorial Library, DML 110C
4:30 – 6:00 pm (PT)
RSVP by February 18 to receive pre-circulated materials.
This event is co-sponsored by the EMSI Linda and Harlan Martens Economic History Forum.
Saturday, April 4, 2026
“The Materiality of Spanish California”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Roger’s Classroom
10:30 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
RSVP by March 27 to receive pre-circulated materials.
This event is co-sponsored by the EMSI Linda and Harlan Martens Economic History Forum.
Dissertation Workshop
Friday, May 8, 2026
Charlotte Biggs, University of California, Riverside
“Mobility, Gender, and Indigeneity: Remapping La Florida and the Atlantic World, 1720-1784”
Arrannè Rispoli, University of California, Los Angeles
“‘We were condemn’d by colour of Law’: Capital Punishment and the Origins of Black Criminality”
Julia Lewandoski, University of California, San Diego
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Seaver 1 & 2
10:30 am – 1:00 pm (PT)
RSVP by April 30 to receive pre-circulated materials.
Image Credit: Unknown (American), Jacob Deyo – Ruth Smith Family Record, ca. 1813. Watercolor and ink on paper, frame: 15 3/8 x 11 3/8 x 1 5/8 in. (39.1 x 28.9 x 4.1 cm), frame opening: 13 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (34.3 × 24.1 cm). The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Jonathan and Karin Fielding. © Courtesy of The Huntington Art Museum, San Marino, California.
