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Hi Tate, I having read your blogpost, I too have to agree that I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the wide range of presentations from the whole class. Your comment on the broad nature of transnational history, that is reflected in

With my previous blogpost serving as an evaluation of my project as a whole, I wanted to use this blogpost to narrow in on a particular area of the project. This is the way that my project has changed and

When I first developed my project, I approached the Cold War through a fairly familiar question: how rigid was the Iron Curtain? I was interested in whether cultural exchange, specifically Soviet ballet tours, revealed cracks in what is often portrayed

I really loved your presentation! I think you’ve made a great amount of progress with your work and research regarding queer communities in Miami. I remember vaguely in one of our groups discussions in class you telling me you were

By the 1990s, Miami was largely regarded as a refuge for queer exiles in Caribbean and Latin American countries. The Floridian port city, which emerged in the late 19th century, had been marketed to tourists and migrants alike as an

Today we had the final project presentations in class where everyone had 7-8 minutes to present their research thus far, and where they’re intending to take it moving forward until the final paper that is due in 3 weeks. I

This entry serves to show the new directions my project has started going in. Notably, my research questions have changed. The project’s focus will be fixed on fishing rights rather than general Indigenous rights. I’ve narrowed down specific repositories for

In preparation for the assessed presentation coming soon, I have been revisiting the notes on my own presentations and others. And as I am also in need of another blog post, decided to write a response to what i would

I find your research on how the New Right communicated itself transnationally highly engaging, not least because it shares considerable conceptual overlap with my own work on the transnational outreach of Ulster Unionism. In both cases, the focus lies on

when reading through blog posts to respond too, Tate’s ‘Using Transnationalism to deconstruct Homonationalism’ particularly drew my attention. Reading it made me consider how nationalism shapes queer identities and the other way round. Thought this module a clear point of

As the semester is coming to an end, I have been moving forward with my final project on second wave feminism in a transnational and intersectional perspective but also looking back at some of the foundational readings of the semester.

My research for my project led me down a rabbit hole of legal and social systems steeped in what scholars call ‘homonationalism’. Defined as the process under which organized LGBTQ+ activism in North America and Europe have adopted nationalist rhetoric.

Looking back on the Clavin reading from the beginning of the semester as my research comes together and class discussions have come to a close, I feel like I can understand the exact application of transnational history as he describes

This is a fascinating project proposal. I really like how you start off by setting out the dividing lines within cold war historiography. By using Pekacz and Mitchell you also effectively place your project within its historiographical context. By highlighting

This is a highly interesting project proposal. To me, it possesses a particularly sharp historiographical edge as an application of transnationalism. Immigration is, of course, a prominent subfield within transnational history, yet political exiles — such as the White Russians