The Vanderbilt report invokes Natalie Zemon Davis as an exemplar against Saidiya Hartman but (a) badly misreads both Davis and Hartman; and (b) appears to know nothing of NZD’s own intellectual biography despite the fact that some of the co-authors were once her colleagues at Princeton.
Asheesh Kapur Siddique
1.) For non-Americans and/or younglings, HUAC = House Un-American Activities Committee.
2.) Natalie Zeamon Davis talks about the connection between having her passport confiscated and how she had to reorganize her early research in this essay for @nybooks.com: www.nybooks.com/online/2013/...
The year was 1952. I had spent six months in France doing the first research for my PhD thesis on “Protestantism and the Printing Workers of Lyon.” Not long after my return, two gentlemen from the US ...
