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Dr. Luz María Gordillo (MSU PhD 2005) won the 2011 Book Award from the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists for Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration (University of Texas Press, 2010). The association said the book was “a terrific contribution to the… Continue Reading MSU History PhD wins major award
November 9, 2011, 5:30-6:30pm, B-91 “Indian Lands and Imperial Authorities: The Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century Ohio River Valley”Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University Europeans misunderstood Indian identity and misrepresented the ethnically diverse villages of the thousand mile-long Ohio River valley in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.… Continue Reading Newberry Seminar in American Indian Studies, Nov. 9th, 2011
MSU historians presented papers at the 10th North Eastern Workshops on Southern Africa (NEWSA) conference in Burlington, Vermont. NEWSA meetings are intimate, interdisciplinary gatherings of scholars who work on Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Papers are pre-circulated,… Continue Reading MSU historians at the 10th North Eastern Workshop
Professor Stewart has published “1774: the Scottish Enlightenment meets the Tibetan Enlightenment,” Journal of World History vol.22, no.3 ( September 2011), pp. 455-492. The 1774 meeting between Lobsang Palden Yeshes (1738-1780), the Third Panchen Lama, and George Bogle (1746-1781), an agent of the East India… Continue Reading Professor Gordon T. Stewart’s article in Journal of World History
Ties That Bind: Toxic Pollution, Urban Brownfields, and the Embodiment of Class and Gender in Post-Industrial Southeast Chicago. Dr. Christine Walley Chris Walley is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. She is currently completing a book Exit Zero: An Anthropologist’s Account of Family and… Continue Reading Monday, September 26th 3:30 pm, 303 International Center