Tina Shull
Tina Shull
Assistant Professor of History at UNC Charlotte
2016 Soros Justice Fellow
National Geographic Explorer
Climate Reality Leader
• Post-1960 US & World History
• Race, Empire, Immigration
• Abolition and Carceral Studies
• Climate Migration
• Public and Digital Humanities
Tina Shull (she/her) is a public historian of race, empire, immigration enforcement, and climate migration in the modern US and the World.
Tina Shull (she/her) is a public historian of race, empire, immigration enforcement, and climate migration in the modern US and the World.
She holds a PhD in History from UC Irvine, a Master’s in Humanities and Social Thought from NYU, and a BA in History from UCLA. Her forthcoming book from UNC Press, Detention Empire, explores the rise of migrant detention in the early 1980s as a form counter-insurgency.
She holds a PhD in History from UC Irvine, a Master’s in Humanities and Social Thought from NYU, and a BA in History from UCLA. Her forthcoming book from UNC Press, Detention Empire, explores the rise of migrant detention in the early 1980s as a form counter-insurgency.
Shull is the creator of IMM Print and Climate Refugee Stories. In 2018-20, Shull was a post-doctoral fellow in Global American Studies at Harvard University where she taught in the Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights unit. She was awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Foundations in 2016 for her work in immigration detention storytelling. Climate Refugee Stories has been awarded a National Geographic Documenting Human Migrations education grant in 2019, and a NC Humanities large grant in 2021.
Shull is the creator of IMM Print and Climate Refugee Stories. In 2018-20, Shull was a post-doctoral fellow in Global American Studies at Harvard University where she taught in the Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights unit. She was awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Foundations in 2016 for her work in immigration detention storytelling. Climate Refugee Stories has been awarded a National Geographic Documenting Human Migrations education grant in 2019, and a NC Humanities large grant in 2021.
Climate Refugee Stories
#ImmigrationDetentionSyllabus
#ClimateMigrationSyllabus
Digital History
Exposed: The Injustice of Immigration Detention
Building Unity in the Mass Incarceration Crisis: Centering Black Migrant Experiences in the Fight for Abolition