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Paul A. Kramer’s primary research interests are in modern U. S. history, with an emphasis on transnational, imperial and global histories, American social thought, and the politics of inequality.
May 21, 2015 · Learn about Paul Kramer, an associate professor at Vanderbilt University who writes and teaches U. S. history from transnational, imperial and global perspectives. See his books, awards, fellowships and professional service.
Paul A. Kramer is a historian and writer at Vanderbilt University who studies the US-world relations. He has written for the New Yorker and Slate on topics such as immigration, Guantanamo Bay and the Iraq War.
Kramer’s essay remains profoundly important for interrogating historians’ categories of analysis. Kramer identified a set of binaries that have repeatedly arisen in the literature along with the uncritical adoption by historians of historical actors’ terms, categories, and frame-works that have become reified as analytic categories.
Paul Kramer writes and teaches U. S. history from transnational, imperial and global perspectives as an associate professor at Vanderbilt University. Paul is the author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines, co-founder and co-editor of Cornell University Press’ series The United States in the World.
In this informative talk, historian and writer Paul A. Kramer shows how an "insider vs. outsider" framing has come to dominate the way people in the US talk about immigration -- and suggests a set of new questions that could reshape the conversation around whose life, rights and thriving matters.
Apr 1, 2007 · Paul Kramer's ambitious book examines American colonial empire in the Philippines (but primarily the years 1899–1913) through the lens of race. Most modern accounts of the relationship discuss race, but Kramer finds them inadequate because they assume that race is essentially a static category instead of “a dynamic, contextual, contested ...
