College of Social Science
Professor Emeritus Walter E. Gourlay died this week at his home in Monterey, California. Walter served in the History Department at MSU from 1967 to 1987. He was a specialist in East Asian History. For more on his life, visit our memorial page.
Professor Segal, a scholar of Japanese history, will be presenting on efforts at recovery ollowing the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant meltdown that claimed 20,000 lives and devastated northeastern Japan in March of 2011. He will be joined on the panel by Professor Kazuya… Continue Reading Dr. Ethan Segal organizes community forum to remember the 2011 Japan disasters
Professor Emeritus Walter E. Gourlay died this week at his home in Monterey, California. Walter served in the History Department at MSU from 1967 to 1987. He was a specialist in East Asian History. For more on his life, visit our memorial page
This article traces the history of international migration in Europe since the seventeenth century articulating the connections between historical migrations in Europe and the Europeanness in practice, if not in self-identity, of its mobile inhabitants. The volume of migration has fluctuated dramatically since the seventeenth… Continue Reading Leslie Page Moch has just published “Lessons and cautionary tales from the Past: Building bridges from migration history to Europeanness,” in National Identities 15:1 (2013) 9-19
Retired faculty member, Richard W. Thomas, has published with Joe T. Darden, Detroit: Race Riots, Racial Conflicts, and Efforts to bridge the Racial Divide (MSU Press, 2013). Congratulations Rich!