John Grider will discuss the expansion and retraction of citizenship and voting rights throughout United States history. Not only will the discussion address voting rights in terms of gender and the black-white binary, it will also include the expansion of voting rights across class lines and to racial and ethnic groups often excluded from voting rights discussions.

John Grider is a Professor of History, and former department chair at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He specializes in maritime history, labor and working class history, Native American History, and the History of the American West. He has received numerous awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Canadian Nautical Research Society, and has been a Fullbright scholar. From 2015 to 2021, he was a Research Associate with the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice at the University of the Free State in South Africa.

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