Dr. Nina Chordas, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alaska Southeast, focuses on how utopian thinking in Western Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries came to contribute to the genocide of Native Americans. Dr. Chordas earned her Ph.D. in English with a specialty in Renaissance Literature from the University of Oregon. Her book, "Forms in Early Modern Utopia: The Ethnography of Perfection" is forthcoming from Ashgate Press.
Recorded September 26, 2008
Sponsored by: University of Alaska Southeast
Produced by: UAS Video Production Services
© 2008 University of Alaska Southeast
Running Time : 54 minutes
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