Month: June 2019

Prof. Peter Alegi recently traveled to Dakar, Senegal, to attend the 13th Sports Africa conference. The theme of the conference was “Popular Sports, Mass Sports and Elite Sports in Everyday Africa.” Alegi presented a paper on “The New Historiography of Southern African Football” and also… Continue Reading Alegi at Sports Africa in Dakar

Recent PhD graduate Eddie Bonilla has been named a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnic Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for the 2019-2020 academic year.  The fellowship provides junior scholars the opportunity to spend a year at the Department of Latina/Latino Studies to… Continue Reading Bonilla Wins Postdoc

Sidney Lu’s article, ” Eastward Ho! Japanese Settler Colonialism in Hokkaido and the Making of Japanese Migration to the American West, 1869–1888,” has been published by the Journal of Asian Studies. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-asian-studies/article/eastward-ho-japanese-settler-colonialism-in-hokkaido-and-the-making-of-japanese-migration-to-the-american-west-18691888/540D1FCAC210EBAC61BE93712B01A6AB

Lewis Siegelbaum has published a featured review in The American Historical Review. Here is the relevant information: Claire L. Shaw. Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917–1991. . Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917–1991. Ithaca, N.Y.:Cornell University Press, … Continue Reading Siegelbaum Featured in AHR