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CAPT Center for American Political History and Technology


CAPT promotes the study of American political history and its intersections with modern communications technology with a goal of utilizing the best insights of the humanities and social sciences to advance a better understanding of the past, present, and future of media, public discourse, and American democracy in the information age.

CAPT Seminar Series Oct. 2024

CAPT Spring Seminar Series 

"Detroit as a Carceral Space: Documenting Police Violence and Community Activism through Research Collaborations"

Dr. Matthew Lassiter

University of Michigan

Matthew Lassiter is the Louis Evans Professor of History and the co-director of the Carceral State Project at the University of Michigan. He is author of The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs (Princeton University Press, 2023), The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton University Press, 2006), and co-editor of The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Join us: 

Monday, February 17, 2025, from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM

Beering Hall, Room 6138

Lunch will be provided