Professor Peter Beattie’s book The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race and Nation in Brazil 1864-1945 has been translated into Portuguese: Tributo de Sangue. The department wishes Professor Beattie a hearty congratulação for this honor.
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The American Historical Association has posted an article highlighting the growing popularity of Africa: Past and Present, hosted by Professors Peter Alegi and Peter Limb.
Podcasts continue to gain popularity in both social and academic realms, becoming a routine part of Internet lingo.
Peter Alegi, associate professor in history at Michigan State University (MSU), and Peter Limb, [...]
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We are pleased to announce that Michigan State University will convene its Third Annual Africanist Graduate Student Conference on the weekend of October 9-10, 2009. The theme for the 2009 conference is “Africa’s Challenges and Possibilities”. Dr. James A. Pritchett, Director of the MSU African Studies Center, will give the opening keynote address on Friday, [...]
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Professor Ethan Segal’s chapter “Awash in Coins: The Spread of Money in Early Medieval Japan” has just come out in the edited collection of essays “Currents in Japanese History,” edited by Gordon Berger, Andrew Goble, Lorraine Harrinton, and Cameron Hurst, published by Figueroa Press (University of Southern California).
Over the summer, Ethan presented papers at two international conferences: [...]
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Professor Javier has just published Crossing Borders with the Santo Nino de Atocha with University of New Mexico Press. He has presented the department with a copy of this beautifully bound book.
Moreover, The National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago has chosen Pescador’s installation “Santo Nino-Quetzalcoatl” (with Gabrielle Pescador) for contribution to the museum’s “Camino a [...]
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Professor Susan Sleeper-Smith’s edited volume, Contesting Knowledge, the fruits of a symposium she organized at the Newberry Library, has just been released. Dr. Sleeper-Smith also published over the summer “Resistance to Removal: The `White Indian’ Frances Slocum’” in Enduring Nations: Essays on the History of Native Americans in the Midwest, a book edited by R. David Edmunds, [...]
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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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Professor and Interim Chair Dr. Keely Stauter-Halsted’s article “Moral Panic and the Prostitution in Partitioned Poland: Middle-Class Respectability in Defense of the Modern Nation,” appears in this month’s issue of Slavic Review. Interested parties may read an abstract of the article here.
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Professor Liam Brockey has been invited to present his paper “The First China Hands: Europeans in China during the Late Ming and Early Qing Period” at the Folger Shakespeare Library on September 26 at a conference on Contact and Exchange.
For more information, see the full conference schedule here.
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Interim Chairperson, Dr. Keely Statuer-Halsted, will be giving a talk entitled “Moral Panic and Prostitution in the 19th Century Polish Lands” at 204 International Center from 1:30 – 3:00 on October 9th.
The talk is part of the Center for Gender in Global Context’s Colloquia Series: New Research on Women and Gender, Global and Local [...]
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