Dr. J. P. Linstroth is a Social Science teacher at Royal Palm Beach High School (RPBHS), where he teaches Advanced Placement (AP) World History, Honors World History, and Regular World History. He obtained a D.Phil. (PhD) in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford and is an Adjunct Professor at Barry University and Faculty Member at the Catholic University of New Spain (UCNE). His books include: Marching Against Gender Practice: Political Imaginings in the Basqueland (2015, Lexington Books) and: The Forgotten Shore (Poetic Matrix Press, 2017). Linstroth was a signatory of the Brussels Declaration for Peace to end ETA violence (2010). He was a co-recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Grant (2005-2007) to study immigrant populations: Cubans, Haitians, and Guatemalan-Mayan immigrants in South Florida. He was awarded a J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholar Grant (2008-2009) to study urban Amerindians in Manaus, Brazil and to be a Visiting Professor at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM). In 2017, he was awarded a Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award. Linstroth is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Peace Research Association Foundation (IPRAF). In 2019, he received a medal as a “Gentleman of Merit” and was inducted into La Noble Compañia de Bernardo de Galvez (The Noble Order of Bernardo de Galvez). In addition to many academic articles, he writes “opinion editorials” or “Op-Eds” in many newspapers and online news sources, including CounterPunch, Des Moine Register, Euroscientist, L.A. Progressive, PeaceVoice, The Houston Chronicle, and Londonderry Sentinel. His academic research interests are cognition, ethno-nationalism, gender, genocide, history, immigrant advocacy, indigeneity, indigenous politics, indigenous rights, love, memory, minority rights, peace, peace-building, racism, social justice, and trauma.
Poems on Crisis at the Mexican-American Border
My session will be reading from my prize-winning poetry book, 'Epochal Reckonings' (Proverse International Prize Winner) reading from poems concerning the crisis at the Mexican-American border, poems such as "The Crossing", "El Norte", "Eco por un Grito Moderno", and "Mexicah". This book won the 2019 Proverse Prize for its poetry which evoke the human spirit and human suffering and the ability of humans to overcome such terrible tragedies presented by the book.
