Author: Walter Hawthorne

Massive Data Project Will Help People Identify Enslaved Ancestors Michigan State’s ‘Enslaved: The People of the Historic Slave Trade’ will combine available historical data on slavery into one searchable hub  

See the story in MSU Today History and Matrix receive $1.5M Mellon Foundation grant to build extensive database on the historic slave trade research on historic slave trade January 9, 2018 EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State University, supported by nearly $1.5 million from The… Continue Reading History & Matrix awarded Mellon Foundation Grant

See article: http://statenews.com/article/2017/11/leadr-gives-history-a-digital-lens  

MSU History graduate students Jodi Marshall and Akil Cornelius, have been awarded prestigious 2017/18 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowships. Marshall, whose dissertation advisor is Dr. Laura Fair, will be undertaking research on Zanzibar and Pemba and in Oman. Cornelius, whose dissertation advisor is Dr. Peter… Continue Reading Two Graduate Students win Fulbright DDRAs

Graduate Student Akil Cornelius has been awarded a Fulbright IIE Fellowship for dissertation research in South Africa. Peter Alegi is the PhD advisor. The dissertation is tentatively titled “The Venda Armory: Warfare, Gender, and Technology in South Africa, 1820 to 1903.” Cornelius will undertake research in… Continue Reading Grad student Akil Cornelius awarded Fulbright