About this Event
These talks present the story of how, following attacks on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, over 30,000 Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants from the U.S were arbitrarily incarcerated first in Pr*son facilities and then in hastily established camps across the U.S and how these histories continue to be relevant for current political discourse.
Rachel Pistol joined the department of History and the Parkes Institute at the University of Southampton in 2024 as the Director of EHRI-UK having previously worked at King’s College London as a digital historian on the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). She was elected inaugural Chair of the National Coordinators' Committee in March 2024, one of the two governing bodies of the EHRI-ERIC. Since 2022 she has been the Historical Advisor for World Jewish Relief, formerly the Central British Fund and is working on new ways to make their extensive archive on refugees to Britain during the 1930s and 1940s more accessible. Rachel is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Committee Member of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies (EXILE).
Rachel completed her BA, MA, and PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London under the supervision of the late Professor David Cesarani OBE. Whilst studying for her doctorate she lectured in History at Royal Holloway, winning the College Postgraduate Teaching Prize in 2016 for her innovative teaching methods. She also held a lectureship at Kingston University in Business Information Systems and Quantitative Methods as well as a postdoctoral position at the University of Exeter.
Event venue & nearby stays
American Library, Millennium Plain, Norwich, United Kingdom
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