Congratulations to Gabriel Lesser, who began as a postdoctoral fellow at the Writing Center at UC Berkeley!

Congratulations to Gabriel Lesser, who began as a postdoctoral fellow at the Writing Center at UC Berkeley! In his dissertation, Hegemonic Humor: Racial Satires, Caricatures, and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Mexico and Brazil, Lesser analyzes how different ideas of race became embedded in everyday nineteenth-century print entertainment, including math puzzles, fashion columns, illustrated novels, and caricatures in both Mexico and Brazil.