Posted on September 16th, 2009 by historydept
Professor Lewis Siegelbaum is the winner of the prestigious Ed Hewett Prize for his book, Cars for Comrades. The Ed A. Hewett Book Prize, sponsored by the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), is awarded annually for an outstanding publication on the political economy of the centrally planned economies of the former Soviet Union and [...]
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Posted on September 1st, 2009 by historydept
The winner of the 2009 Distinguished Africanist Award is the department’s very own Professor David Robinson. The ASA Distinguished Africanist Award was established in the 1980’s to recognize and honor individuals who have contributed a lifetime record of outstanding scholarship in their respective field of African studies and service to the Africanist community.
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Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by historydept
Professor John Waller’s latest book, A Time to Dance, a Time to Die. The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518 (Thriplow, Cambridge: Icon Books, 2008) , has been shortlisted by the British Society for the History of Science for the 2009 Dingle Prize for the best book in the history of science, technology, and medicine, [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2009 by historydept
Dr. Peter Alegi has been appointed a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, in South Africa for the calendar year 2010. Dr. Alegi’s project is to explore “Sport and Leisure: Colonial and Postcolonial Transformations.” As part of his project,” Alegi will teach two newly developed history courses:
1. “Global Soccerscapes: Business, Power, and [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2009 by historydept
The Alpha Phi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta at Michigan State University was pleased to host the 2009 regional conference of the national history honorary for its members from Michigan and Wisconsin. It was held on March 28 at the Kellogg Center. In addition to students from MSU, students from Oakland University, Alma College and Western [...]
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Posted on April 8th, 2009 by historydept
Matthew Pauly has won a highly competitive International Research and Exchange Board research grant to travel to the Ukraine to complete his book manuscript, Breaking the Tongue: Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1920-1934.
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Posted on April 3rd, 2009 by historydept
Dr. Georgina Montgomery has been awarded a CASID/WID Curriculum Development Grant for a new class she will be offering in the spring 2010 semester, ‘Hist 487: Gender, Sex, and Science in Popular Culture.’ Students will use a range of sources, including materials in special collections, to examine the ways in which scientific theories and authority [...]
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Posted on March 15th, 2009 by historydept
Professor Denise Demetriou has won the prestigous LOEB Classical Library Fellowship. She will use her fellowship to work on her book, which examines the articulation of new identities and the emergence of a “Mediterranean” culture in the ancient world, produced by extensive interactions among different ethnic groups in multiethnic commercial settlements. This study focuses on the formative period [...]
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Posted on February 21st, 2009 by historydept
Jenifer Barclay has recevied the prestigious two-year Carter G. Woodson Pre-Doctoral Residential Fellowship at the University of Virginia. Her project, “‘Cripples All! Or, the Mark of Slavery’: The Invisible Link between Disability and Race in the Old South and Beyond,” explores enslaved people with disabilities in the Antebellum South. Dr. Daina R. Berry is Jennifer’s [...]
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Posted on February 18th, 2009 by historydept
Jessica Trotter, who graduated from MSU with a degree in History in 1999, received one of the two Dr. L. Robert McConnell Staff Awards which the Capital Area District Library Board gives each year “to staff members who have demonstrated exceptional customer service and/or innovation.” Jessica is Head of Public Services at the Downtown Lansing [...]
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