Month: August 2010

Ethan Segal’s essay, “Money and the State: Medieval Precursors of the Early Modern Economy,”  appears in the newly released edited volume Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan (Brill), eds., Bettina Gramlich-Oka and Gregory Smits.

With support from a Fulbright fellowship, MSU History professor Peter Alegi, author of two books on soccer in Africa, continues this semester to teach and research in South Africa. On 3 September 2010, the German Academic Exchange Service, in cooperation with the South African Institute of… Continue Reading Professor Peter Alegi to comment on World Cup panel

With sponsorship and support from Lyman Briggs College, History, and MSU Library’s Special Collection, Professor Georgina Montgomery has established the Women in Science Digital Collection.  For more, see: http://womeninscience.history.msu.edu/ or visit the History Department’s Science, Technology and Medicine page.

From the Business Daily section: Business Daily is in the driving seat today. It’s all about cars. Steve Evans speaks to the historian Cotten Seiler of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania who wrote “Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America” to explain cars… Continue Reading Professor Siegelbaum on BBC World Service Podcast

Newest member to the department, Dr. Mark Waddell, was on The Rachel Maddow Show August 17 . Check him – and some of his research – out at the link! http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video/harry-potter-and-the-academicians-exhibit/17y28gwu2