The Jet Age in Seven Passengers

At her #Thursday Colloquium Lauren Stokes shares her experience about the challenges of writing a book about the history of civil aviation from a passenger perspective, focused on the passengers and non-passengers who have shaped the way that airport’s function.

Lauren Stokes is Associate Professor of History and German at the Northwestern University. As a researcher, she focuses on migration and mobility in German and European history.  During her residence at HIAS, Lauren Stokes is working on a book about the social history of the “Jet Age” since the 1960s, which led to a boom in international travel, intensified diasporic links for long-distance migrants and facilitated the growth of multinational corporations across far-flung communities of expatriate employees.

^{Her first publication:}

Fear of the Family: Guest Workers and Family Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany. Oxford University Press, 2022.

^{This event is addressed to HIAS Fellows and Tandem Partners.}