马可Meniketti
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教授
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Current Research Activities
I am currently examining the roles of immigrant communities in California history, explicitly within industrial development. I am exploring how groups maintained cultural identity despite efforts to homogenize or supress immigrant communities. 我带着这些 research themes into the context pf planation slavery leading to the industrial revolution and trace commonalities in the treatment and exploitation of labor. Agro-industrialism contributed to the development of modern labor and social relations. 我探索 nexus of historical slavery and modern labor exploitation. I further examine how industrial development has directly impacted environment through short-sighte, profit driven, unsustainable practices. I have conducted several archaeological projects to reveal the intersections of these research themes in the Caribbean and in California context. Along a different line of inquiry, I also investigate issues in maritime archaeology. I am intersted in questions related to the impacts of first contact between European explorers and indigenous peoples of California.
Personal 连接s to Research
As are all Americans who are not indigenous, I am the prodcut of immigration. 我的意大利 grandparents arrived in the United States shortly after 1900. My mothers side of the family arrived in the 1680s in the Scots-Irish diaspora. The experiences of immigrants has interested me, in particular their often overlooked employment within industry and their contribution to national and regional prosperity. I am also intensly, even passionatly, focused on social justice issues such as the legacy of slavery. 一个相关的 issue, which I address in my research is environmental change. These three themes; environment, immigarnt communities, and labor are the bcakb一个 of my resarch agenda.
