Byran Garrett and Isabelle Rispler give the introduction to the third issue of Traversea
Author Biographies
Bryan A Garrett, University of Texas at Arlington
Bryan A. Garrett is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Arlington. He holds a M.A. in Modern Middle East History from the University of North Texas. His dissertation project focuses on Syrians and Lebanese in the Atlantic World (the US, Argentina, Haiti, Honduras, France, Great Britain), their confrontation with categories and hierarchies of the modern West (e.g. citizenship, race, the state) between 1890s and 1930s
Isabelle Rispler, University of Texas at Arlington
Isabelle Rispler is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Arlington and the Université Paris Diderot. She holds a M.A. in History and Cultural Studies from the Université Paris Diderot. In her dissertation project, she puts on German-speakers in Argentina and Southwest Africa (Namibia) between 1840s-1914 in the same analytical field, and explores contemporary connections and conceptions of colonization on both sides of the South Atlantic.
