Colloquium: “Curating 250 Years of American History: Race, Ethnicity, and This Land Is…” by Josh Garrett-Davis
Join the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies for our colloquium speaker series
Monday, November 16, 2026
1:00-2:00 p.m.
CHASS INTN 1113
As one of the co-curators of the Huntington Library exhibition This Land Is…, Josh Garrett-Davis will reveal the ways he and his colleagues approached the America 250 anniversary. The exhibition shares a diverse range of histories rooted in the institution’s collections, oriented around themes of land. He will present public historians’ efforts to discuss complex and sometimes difficult issues amid a celebratory moment, and visitors’ responses to the project.
 | Josh Garrett-Davis is the H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American History at the Huntington Library. He is the author of two books, including What Is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination (2019). He previously worked at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles, where he curated the long-term exhibition Imagined Wests. |
