Month: November 2010

In 2011 Gordon Stewart will take up a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship in the United Kingdom. He will deliver five public lectures at the Universities of Dundee and Edinburgh (“A Tale of Two Cities: Dundee and Calcutta in the Global Economy”; “Jute in the World: the… Continue Reading Professor Stewart to be Leverhulme Professor in the UK

An article by Professor Smith titled “El Señor del Perdón y los matacristos de Oaxaca: la Revolución Mexicana desde el punto de vista de los católicos” or Our Lord of Forgiveness and the Christkillers of Oaxaca: The Mexican Revolution from the Point of View of… Continue Reading Dr. Ben Smith’s Article Published

The Football Scholars Forum is meeting on Tuesday, November 16, at 2pm East Coast time. We’ll be discussing Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France by Laurent Dubois. Our good friend Laurent will be joining us via skype. For more details (and to… Continue Reading The Football Scholars Forum

Nwando Achebe will receive funding from the World Health Organization for a project titled Eradicating Wild Polio Viruses in Nigeria: A Strategic Communications-Centered Approach for Research and Training. She is Co-PI with Folu Ogundimu, Maria Lapinski-Lafaive, Khadidiatou Ndiaye, and Stephen Obaro.  The project runs 11/14/2010-11/13/2011 and… Continue Reading Professor Nwando Achebe’s WHO Project Funded