Month: September 2018

MSU History doctoral students Erica Holt, Daniel Fandino, Adam Coldren, and James Chrislip shared their research on issues of gender, politics, and memory in early 20th-c. East and Southeast at the Western Michigan University Asian Forum on September 28, 2018.  Their panel, “Speaking of Empire:… Continue Reading Holt, Fandino, Coldren, and Chrislip Present Research at WMU

The University of California Press is pleased to announce that Christina Schwenkel, associate professor of anthropology at the University of California-Riverside, and Charles Keith, associate professor of history at Michigan State University, have been appointed as co-editors of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies. Both have… Continue Reading Christina Schwenkel and Charles Keith Named as New Co-Editors for Journal of Vietnamese Studies

Lewis Siegelbaum will be delivering a lecture to the Department of History at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary on October 1. The title of the lecture is: “Transnationalism in One Country? Seeing Migration in Soviet History.”  

PhD candidate Shelby Pumphrey was awarded the 2018 Drusilla Dunjee Houston Award from the Association of Black Women Historians for her paper, “Where in the World was Louise Little: Finding the Lost Years of Louise Little’s Commitment at Kalamazoo State Hospital, 1939 – 1963.”  … Continue Reading Pumphrey Awarded 2018 Drusilla Dunjee Houston Award

Congrats to Naoko Wake, whose beautiful and complex PHR article wins the 2018 Oral History Association article prize! You can read “Surviving the Bomb in America: Silent Memories and the Rise of Cross-national Identity” here–offered paywall-free from our friends at University of California Press.