{"id":93284,"date":"2019-04-01T07:47:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T17:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=93284"},"modified":"2019-04-01T10:35:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T20:35:23","slug":"rediker-selected-as-inouye-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/01\/rediker-selected-as-inouye-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Acclaimed historian activist selected as spring 2019 Inouye chair"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Marcus Rediker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An award-winning scholar of American history, slavery and abolition, piracy, social, cultural and labor history, Marcus Rediker<\/a>, is the spring 2019 Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals<\/a>. Rediker will present a keynote lecture on The Democratic Power of History from Below<\/em> on Wednesday, May 1 at 7 p.m. in the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa Art Auditorium. <\/p>\n

Rediker, who is also a documentary filmmaker, has authored and edited many books, including award-winning The Many-Headed Hydra<\/em> (2000), Slave Ship<\/em> (2007), The Amistad Rebellion<\/em> (2012) and, most recently, The Fearless Benjamin Lay<\/em> (2017). <\/p>\n

He is currently Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. Rediker has been active in social justice and peace movements, such as the worldwide campaign to end the death penalty. <\/p>\n

As the Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals, Rediker will spend the entire spring semester at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, teaching a graduate seminar, “Writing History from Below,” in the Department of American Studies. <\/p>\n

“Marcus Rediker is one of the nation\u2019s premier social historians,” remarked Peter Arnade<\/strong>, UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Dean of Arts and Humanities. “His writings have given voice to those too often lost to history.”<\/p>\n

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