Month: February 2015

The Barnard College Forum has invited Lewis Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch to speak on March 5, 2015.  Their talk, “Beyond Gulags: Escaping within the Soviet Union,” will be drawn from research for their book Broad is My Native Land: Repertoires and Regimes of Migration… Continue Reading Siegelbaum and Moch to speak at Barnard College

Emine Evered was awarded a Humanities and Arts Research Program Development Grant for her current book project, “Alcohol and Identity in Turkish History.”

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal (Duke University) asks black feminist historians Jessica Marie Johnson (Michigan State University) and Treva B. Lindsey (Ohio State University) to name their must-read books for Black History Month. Books referenced include Stephanie M. H. Camp’s Closer to Freedom:… Continue Reading Johnson Featured on The Root/Left of Black

Edward Murphy publishes For a Proper Home: Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile with the University of Pittsburgh Press.  For more information, see http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36545

David Wheat was awarded an ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship for the project ‘Iberian Slave Routes: The Transatlantic Slave Trade to Spanish America, 1500-1640’. In collaboration with historian Marc Eagle (Western Kentucky University), he will conduct research in archives in Spain and Portugal in 2015-2016. Here’s… Continue Reading Wheat awarded ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship