Month: May 2019

Yulian Wu won Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies fellowship in March 2019. This fellowship will support her primary source research in China and Taiwan from 2019 to 2020 for her current book project titled “Crafting Jade: The Construction of Objects and Empire in… Continue Reading Wu Wins Fellowship

PhD candidate Ramya Swayamprakash recently had an article published in the Michigan Historical Review (Spring 2019) :“Dredge a River, make a nation great: Shipping, commerce and territoriality in the Detroit River,1870-1905,” Michigan Historical Review “Pure Michigan”: Environmental Histories of the Great Lakes State Special edition.… Continue Reading Swayamprakash in Michigan Historical Review

Dr. Liz Timbs has been awarded a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in sub-Saharan African History at North Carolina State University. A Fulbright scholar and Interim Assistant Director of the MSU African Studies Center, Dr. Timbs recently completed her PhD under Prof. Peter Alegi’s guidance. Her dissertation… Continue Reading Timbs Awarded Postdoc

History department faculty member David Wheat is co-editor, with Ida Altman, of the new book The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019). https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/university-of-nebraska-press/9780803299573/