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Fakes and Frauds in Modern America

When:
January 20, 2018 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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Where:
National Press Club
529 14th St NW
Washington
DC 20045
Contact:
Alana Bhatla

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Join the Brown Club of DC for its annual Membership Reception on Saturday, January 20 at the National Press Club. Professor Matthew Guterl will lead a timely discussion – on the one year anniversary of the inauguration of reality TV personality-turned-President Donald Trump – titled “Fakes and Frauds in Modern America.”

Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and ONE FREE DRINK with each ticket. Save $5 on your ticket when you also renew your membership for 2018. Purchase your tickets here. To check your membership status, please email the event organizer.

guterlProfessor of Africana Studies and American Studies, Chair of American Studies Matthew Guterl is a historian of race and nation, with a focus on United States history from the Civil War to the present. He has written four books. The first on race and the Progressive Era, the second on Southern slaveholders and the Caribbean, the third on the history of and cultural context for racial profiling, and the fourth on the life of Josephine Baker. He also co-authored, with Caroline Levander, a book on the politics of the modern hotel. Right now, he is working on a global biography of the queer, cosmopolitan, human rights activist, Roger Casement, and a book on class-passing, cross-dressing, and race-passing.

At Brown, he teaches small and large undergraduate classes on American political and popular culture, and graduate classes on race and culture.

Guterl earned his BA degree from Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in 1993, and his PhD in History from Rutgers University in 1999. Before coming to Brown, he taught at Washington State University and Indiana University. Guterl has been awarded fellowships from the National Museum of American History, Yale University, Rice University, and the Library Company of Philadelphia. In 2010, he was the winner of the Mary C. Turpie Prize, given by the American Studies Association, for distinguished teaching, service, and program development in that field.

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