Faculty and Staff Research Series Presents a Research in Progress Talk with Laura Ng

Research in Progress Talk: “Archaeological Landscapes of Chinese American Communities in the Southwestern Urban Frontier” by Laura Ng (Anthropology)
Date/Time: Tuesday, Oct. 3, at 4:15 p.m.
Location: Burling First Floor Lounge

Please join the Grinnell College Libraries at 4:15 p.m., Oct. 3, as we continue our Faculty/Staff Research Series with Laura Ng, assistant professor of anthropology, for her Research in Progress talk, “Archaeological Landscapes of Chinese American Communities in the Southwestern Urban Frontier.” Professor Ng will examine late 19th-/early 20th-century diasporic, transnational, and interracial entanglements in dispersed Chinese American communities in Tucson, Arizona, and San Antonio, Texas, through the lens of landscape archaeology. Refreshments will be served.

Professor Ng is a historical archaeologist with a research focus on the archaeology of transpacific migration and Asian diasporic communities. Since 2017, she has been conducting archaeological research on late 19th- and early 20th-century Chinese migration and the transpacific circulation of people, goods, and ideas between home villages in Taishan County (Hoisan), Guangdong, China, and two Chinese diaspora sites in Southern California: San Bernardino Chinatown and Riverside Chinatown. Other recent projects include co-directing the Cangdong Village Project, which was the first archaeological investigation of a home village in Guangdong Province, and providing research support for the Chinese Railroad Workers of North America Project at Stanford University. She has also helped lead community archaeology projects at Manzanar National Historic Site, a National Park Service unit that preserves the story of the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. 

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