Posted on September 29th, 2009 by historydept
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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Posted on May 9th, 2009 by historydept
Mary Clingerman has successfully defended her dissertation, “On Intimate and Friendly Terms”: A Regional Comparison of Gender and Space in Antebellum American Higher Education.” Mary’s dissertation director was Lisa Fine, and the members of her committee were Maureen Flanagan, Michael Sedlak, and Robert Bonner.
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Posted on May 8th, 2009 by historydept
Ryan Pettengill has successfully defended his dissertation “Communists and Community: Unionism and the Rise and Fall of Community Activism in Detroit, 1932-1968.” Dr. Lisa Fine and Mark Kornbluh co-chaired his committee which included Dr. Dionicio Valdes and Dr. David Bailey.
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Posted on May 2nd, 2009 by historydept
Stuart Willis successfully defended his dissertation: Left to themselves, the Cherokee would become a prosperous, independent commonwealth, and would never sell their lands: Cherokees, Slaves and Moravians at Springplace Mission, Georgia, 1799-1838. Susan Sleeper-Smith was his graduate advisor and Walter Hawthorne, Gordon Stuart, and Laurent DuBois were members of the committee.
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Posted on April 29th, 2009 by historydept
Jeanine Mazak-Kahn has successfully defended her dissertation, Birthpace of Aluminum, Cradle of Crime: Spheres of Influence in the Deindustrialization of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, 1930-1970. Her Ph.D. committee was composed of Mark Kornbluh, Kirsten Fermaglich, Christine Daniels, and Dean Rehberger. In the Fall, Dr. Kahn will be a tenure-stream Assistant Professor at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. [...]
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Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by historydept
Heath Bowen, who is completing his Ph.D. in Amiercan history, has accepted a tenure track position at St. Thomas Aquinas College in New York. Heath is completing his dissertation on the work and culture of government clerks in Jacksonian and antebellum Washington, D.C.
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Posted on March 31st, 2009 by historydept
The Department of History and the Center for European and Russian/Eurasian Studies (CERS) at Michigan State University will be hosting the 2009 Midwest Russian History Workshop (MRHW) at MSU on April 3-4, 2009 in the MSU Union Gold Room B.
The workshop, which has began in the early 1990s, will bring scholars from US and Canadian Universities in [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2009 by historydept
Assan Saar participated in a workshop on “Africa and the Early Modern” at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 6-7, 2009. The workshop was organized by Elizabeth Mancke, Philip Morgan, and Ben Vinson from The Johns Hopkins University, together with Joseph Miller of the University of Virginia and Elizabeth Mancke of the [...]
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Posted on March 4th, 2009 by historydept
Jason Friedman defended his dissertation on presidential power and relations with Congress in the late 1970s, including the question of amnesty. His research focuses on the presidencies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and how their administrations restored the balance of power in Washington and the public image of the presidency. His research thus highlights [...]
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Posted on March 3rd, 2009 by historydept
Jason Friedman defended his dissertation on presidential power and relations with Congress in the late 1970s, including the question of amnesty. His research focuses on the presidencies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and how their administrations restored the balance of power in Washington and the public image of the presidency. His research thus highlights [...]
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