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"Who is Doctor Bauer?: Rematriating a Censored Story on Internment, Wardship, and Sexual Violence in Wartime Alaska, 1941 - 1944"

photo of Dr. Holly Miowak Guise, in a small airplane, Alaska
Virtual, via Zoom (registration required)

Join us for a virtual seminar with the winner of FOUR Western History Association awards for the article,“Who Is Dr. Bauer? Indigenous Internment and Intimate Violence in Wartime Alaska, 1941-44” which explores the violation of Aleut women interred by the US Armed Forces during World War II.  Drawing on Oral History, Tribal History, and Federal Archives, Guise weaves a story of sordid abuse and courageous resistance from a heretofore little known moment in American History. Click here to read the award-winning article, in the Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 53, Issue 2, Summer 2022, Pages 145–16.

When: Monday, November 13, 2-4pm

Registration required via Zoom: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclcuCvrD0jHNQKyCBMOkorGuASSxbOC3F2

Co-sponsored by The Gable Chair in American History and the Institute for Native American Studies

QR code to link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclcuCvrD0jHNQKyCBMOkorGuASSxbOC3F2

Dr. Holly Guise
History Department
University of New Mexico

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