Month: September 2017

Javier Pescador new book ?Campus, Brand & Circus. A Social History of College Sports? (Cognella ISBN 978-1-5165-1191-1) came out. The book analyzes the history of intercollegiate athletics and their multiple connections with American history and society.

The History Department at MSU has hit the trifecta with three articles by members of the department published in the current issue (vol. 3, no. 2) of The Journal of Migration History:   Sean McDaniel, “Our Greatest Riches: Horses at the Intersection of Settler and… Continue Reading Multiple Articles Published in Journal of Migration

Graduate student Brian Van Wyck recently published an article on Turkish teachers in West German schools.   The article, “Guest Workers in the School? Turkish Teachers and the Production of Migrant Knowledge in West German Schools, 1971-1989,” appears in a special issue of the journal… Continue Reading Van Wyck Publishes Article

Darlene Clark Hine, Michigan State University John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of History, has received the 2017 John Hope Franklin Lifetime Achievement Award from The Southern Historical Association, or SHA. The Southern Historical Association strives to promote an “investigative rather than a memorial approach” to… Continue Reading Hine Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Akil Cornelius, PhD student in African history, gave a talk on Thursday, September 21, at the African Studies Center’s “Eye on Africa” series. The title of the talk was “Gun Running, Guerrilla Warfare, and Technological Change in the late nineteenth Century South Africa.” Cornelius was… Continue Reading Akil Cornelius Gives Paper at MSU African Studies Center