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Department of History
Old Horticulture
506 E. Circle Dr
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Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
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Dr. Ronen Steinberg’s article has been published

Dr. Steinberg has an article published in the International Journal of Transitional Justice. http://ijtj.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/04/22/ijtj.ijt007.full?keytype=ref&ijkey=rLhjvoPc0dNheXQ

Dr. Ronen Steinberg awarded a fellowship AY 2013-14

Dr. Steinberg will spend the academic year 2013-14 as a resident fellow of the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. The theme of the fellowship is “Trauma and Social Transformation.”

Speaker Series: Helen Veit “For Infants and Invalids: Medicalizing Children’s Food in the Nineteenth Century”

As part of the Speaker Series, our very own Helen Veit will be giving a talk on Friday, April 19, at 3:30 pm in the Old Horticulture Conference Room. Helen Veit specializes in American history. Her first book, Modern Food, Moral Food: Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century (University [...]

Professor Sayuri Shimizu awarded Fellowship 2013-14

Professor Sayuri Shimizu has been awarded a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship for a project titled “The Rise and Transformation of the North Pacific Ocean Resource Management Regimes, 1900–1975.” Taking a transnational and interdisciplinary approach to maritime environmental history, the study examines ideas, local practices, national regulatory policies, and intergovernmental institution-building regarding the commercial harvesting and [...]

Speaker Series: Jerry Davila, “Race Mixture in the Land of the Future”

As part of the Speaker Series for the Department of History, Jerry Davila will be giving a talk on Thursday, April 11, 3:30pm in room 255 Old Horticulture. Davila is a Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Race Mixture in the Land of the Future” The decolonization of West African nations [...]