“Landscapes of Community.” Neighborhood and ethnic enclave community formation. My lecture focused on the historical factors that impacted the city since the mid-1850s, including stories of St. Louis’ Chinatown, Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans in St. Louis.

This lecture was a part of Ampersand course, which is a two-semester experience available to first year students where they take 2 courses, one in the fall and one in the spring, that each connect in some intellectual or scholarly way. This course is part of the “American Stories” Ampersand, which examines landscapes of American urban spaces. In the first semester students explore a variety of American cities and in the second semester (this course), they study St. Louis.