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The Tri-University Graduate Student Association (TUGSA) together with the History Anti-Racism Taskforce (HART) at the University of Waterloo will host a graduate student panel in honour of Asian Heritage Month. The event will be held on Zoom, starting at 11:00am.
The panel will be chaired by Dr. Norman Smith from the University of Guelph. Here are the panelists:
Tanroop Sandhu - "Not only a duty: it is a necessity": British and Indian Radical Solidarity in the Interwar Period
Tanroop Sandhu is a PhD candidate studying the political thought of South Asian leftists in the diaspora during the interwar period, under the supervision of Chris Moffat and Martyn Frampton at Queen Mary University of London. His research seeks to analyze the contributions that figures like Rajani Palme Dutt and Shapurji Saklatvala, among others, made to communist theory and anti-imperialist politics in both India and the imperial core. Tanroop completed his BA in History, and his MA in the Tri-University History Program, at the University of Waterloo.
Trevor Parsons - The Ku Klux Klan and Anti-Asian Sentiment in Early 20th-century Rural Ontario
Trevor Parsons is a doctoral candidate at the University of Waterloo. His research focuses on the trans-imperial careers of Canadian-born parliamentarians at Westminster from 1890 to 1918. His paper, “The Ku Klux Klan and Ontario’s Evolving Britishness: A Case Study of Belleville and Hastings County,” will appear in Ontario History in spring 2024.
Hera Averion - The Lingering Legacy of Colonialism in the Philippines: "Benevolent Assimilation," Concentration Camps, and their Impact on Contemporary Politics
Hera Averion graduated from the University of Waterloo just under a year ago with a Bachelor's of Computer Science and a Minor in History. She is currently working as a software engineer at a fintech company. Some of her favourite history classes that she studied were the ones that pushed her to research about topics she was interested in, such as HIST322 where she learned about the History of Concentration Camps.
Saif Zaman - Sufi Networks in Eastern Bengal
Saif Zaman is a PhD candidate in History. His research interests include the Islamic World, South Asian Studies and East Asian History. He currently teaches Arts 140: Diasporas and Food Cultures.