Dara Orenstein
- Title:
- Associate Professor of American Studies
- Office:
- 609 22nd St. NW, Room 201
- Phone:
- 202-994-2601
- Email:
- [email protected]
Areas of Expertise
History of Capitalism, History of Photography, Critical Geography, Cultural and Social Theory
Education
BA, African American Studies, Harvard University (1996)
PhD, American Studies, Yale University (2012)
Publications
Offshore Onshore: A History of the Free Zone on U.S. Soil (in progress)
Co-Editor (with Aaron Carico) of a special issue on “The Fictions of Finance,” Radical History Review (Winter 2014)
“Foreign-Trade Zones and the Cultural Logic of Frictionless Production,” Radical History Review (Winter 2011): 36-61.
“Void for Vagueness: Mexicans and the Collapse of Miscegenation Law in California,” Pacific Historical Review (August 2005): 367-407.
Classes Taught
Scope and Methods in American Studies (graduate seminar)
The Temporalities of Capital (graduate seminar)
Lines of Work (undergraduate research seminar)
Zombie Capitalism (undergraduate Dean’s seminar)
