This reading group is part of the Sawyer Seminar “Race, Empire, and Environments of Biomedicine.” Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

The talk will occur virtually and guests can register to join the Zoom meeting ahead of the event.

Alberto Ortiz Díaz is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas, Arlington, and currently a Larson Fellow at the Kluge Center, Library of Congress. His first book, Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press in March 2023.