TODAY! “Marginal Cosmopolitans: U.S. Colonial Legal Culture and Chinese Life in the Philippines (1902-1946)” with Jilene Chua (Feb. 1, 2023)

The Boston University Dept. of History is pleased to invite you to the upcoming lecture

“Marginal Cosmopolitans: U.S. Colonial Legal Culture and Chinese Life in the Philippines (1902-1946)”

by Jilene Chua

(Johns Hopkins University)

Wednesday, February 1, 2023 from 12:20 to 1:45 pm

in the BU Dept. of History, Room  HIS 504, 226 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215

Jilene Chua is a History PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in gender/sexuality, modern empires, and race. Her dissertation examines U.S. colonial law from the perspective of the Chinese in the Philippines. Her research has been supported by the Fulbright Program, the American Society for Legal History, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. She is also a contributor to The Lannang Archives—a digital collection of Philippine Hokkien language oral histories.