Month: June 2017

Louisiana Freed Slaves Data Now Available on Slave Biographies Dr. Brian Mitchell teams up with Matrix and the Department of History to publish data on almost 3,000 freed slaves from Antebellum New Orleans.   MSU Matrix Center for the Digital Humanities and the Department of… Continue Reading LA Freed Slaves Data on Slave Biographies

PhD candidate Shaonan Liu won a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. His dissertation title: “‘The Chinese Are Coming’: A History of Chinese Migrants in Nigeria”. His field is writing and research in the field or Chinese Studies in the… Continue Reading Liu Wins CCK Fellowship

Professor Helen Veit was an interview subject for the “Talking Rot” episode of the BBC Food Chain podcast, broadcast on June 1.