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Kristina Shull

Assistant Professor of Post-1960 US History, UNC Charlotte

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Kristina Shull

Assistant Professor of Post-1960 US History, UNC Charlotte

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Caribbean Migration, Detention and Deportation, Ecological Migration, Government Agencies (INS, DHS), Immigration During the 20th Century, Immigration During the 21st Century, Latin American Migration, Nativism and Xenophobia, Race and Ethnicity, Refugee and Asylum

AREAS OF TEACHING

US History, Latin American Studies, Humanities, Public History, Digital History

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Legal Advocacy, Media Engagement, Museums and Exhibitions, Public Talks

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Kristina Shull, Ph.D. (she/hers), is an Assistant Professor of Post-1960 US History at UNC Charlotte and a public historian of race, foreign relations, immigration enforcement, and climate migration in the modern US and the World.

EXTENDED PROFILE

She holds a PhD in History from UC Irvine, a Master’s in Humanities and Social Thought from NYU, and a BA in History from UCLA. From 2018-20, Shull was a post-doctoral fellow in Global American Studies at Harvard University where she taught in the Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights unit. Her current book project, Reagan’s Cold War on Immigrants: Resistance and the Rise of a Detention Regime, explores the rise of migrant detention in the early 1980s as a form counter-insurgency.

Shull is the creator of IMM Print and Climate Refugee Stories.

She was awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Foundations in 2016 for her work in immigration detention storytelling, and a National Geographic Documenting Human Migrations education grant for Climate Refugee Stories in 2019.

RESEARCH

Reagan’s Cold War on Immigrants: Resistance and the Rise of a Detention Regime, manuscript under contract with UNC Press Justice, Power, and Politics series.

Immigration Detention and Histories of Resistance, manuscript in progress.

“Reagan’s Cold War on Immigrants: Resistance and the Rise of a Detention Regime, 1980-1985,” Journal of American Ethnic History 40:2 (Winter 2021): 5-51.

“QTGNC Stories from US Immigration Detention and Abolitionist Imaginaries, 1980-Present,” Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, forthcoming Fall 2021.

“Mariel Cuban Stories from Immigration Detention and Resisting the Carceral State, 1980-Present,” Anthurium: A Journal of Caribbean Studies, forthcoming Fall 2021.

“‘Nobody Wants These People’: Reagan’s Immigration Crisis and the Containment of Foreign Bodies.” In Body/Nation: The Global Realms of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Century, edited by Emily S. Rosenberg and Shanon Fitzpatrick. Chapel Hill: Duke University Press, 2014.

PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS

Digital History Projects:

Climate Refugee Stories, Director

IMM-Print, Creator and Contributor, Freedom for Immigrants

Prolonged Detention Stories, Project Partner, Freedom for Immigrants and NYU School of Law

Humanizando la deportación/Humanizing Deportation, Consultant, UC Davis

AWARDS

National Geographic Explorer, Documenting Human Migrations education grant (2019), Soros Justice Fellow, Open Society Foundations (2016)

INTERVIEWS

Kristina Shull: What can you do with a humanities Ph.D.? Alumni Spotlight, UC Irvine School of Humanities Office of Graduate Study, Fall 2018.

CIVIC: The End to Isolation for Immigrants in Detention, Podcast, Mobilized News, May 2017.

Ask a Leader, Podcast, KUCI Radio, March 7, 2017.

Q&A: The Missing Voices in the Immigration Debate, Open Society Foundations, February 16, 2017.

Alumna Kristina Shull (GSAS ’06) on Giving Voice to Individuals in Immigration Detention Centers, NYU Arts and Science Alumni Blog, January 24, 2017.

A human(e)ities approach to immigration detention centers: UCI History lecturer and alumna works to give voice to detained immigrants and bring transparency to the system, by Annabel Adams, UC Irvine School of Humanities, September 2016.

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