Join us for an afternoon presentation from Joshua K. Salyers, University of Arizona, "Potsherds of Poverty: A Material History of Poverty and
Migration to Mexico City in the Mid-Twentieth Century".
Time: 1:30 p.m. on August 8th
Place: Lyceum at the Center of Southwest Studies
Joshua Salyers will share his approach for his dissertation
research on the material history of the poor and migration of families into
Mexico City during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Mr.
Salyers is a doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of
Arizona and is currently working with the Center of Southwest Studies archives
personnel to improve researchers’ access to the oral history collections held
by the Center. He will return to his research in Mexico City later in the
coming academic year.