Framing Disaster Migration: Media Coverage of Latino Workers in New Orleans Post-Hurricane Katrina, Russell L. Stockard Jr., Ph.D.

Latino workers from other parts of the United States and the world have traveled to New Orleans to take part in the reconstruction of the city following Hurricane Katrina. Russell Stockard, CLU associate professor of communication, will discuss how the media have depicted the movement of Latinos to one of the last major American cities without a sizable Latino presence.

Stockard, who graduated from high school in New Orleans, has conducted ongoing disaster research on Hurricane Katrina and also taught a class on the subject. His research on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast is part of a longstanding interest in Caribbean and Latin American studies. He presented a paper on media coverage of Latino workers post-Katrina at the Latino American Studies Association conference in Rio de Janeiro this past summer.

Admission is free. Visitor parking is available in the parking lots on Mountclef Boulevard north and south of Olsen Road. Street parking is by permit only Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.