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Georgina Montgomery (Lyman Briggs and History) and Dr. Linda Kalof (Sociology and Director of MSU’s Animal Studies Graduate Specialization) edited a book entitled Making Animal Meaning that has just been published with Michigan State University Press. An elucidating collection of ten original essays, Making Animal Meaning reconceptualizes methods for… Continue Reading Dr. Montgomery’s edited book has been published
The article, “De senzala para a rede: Biografias de escravos serão disponibilizadas em banco de dados na Internet,” features Biographies: The Atlantic Slave Data Network, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more see, http://www.revistadehistoria.com.br/secao/em-dia/da-senzala-para-a-rede
Professor Wheat has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for work on a project titled “Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640.” The fellowship will fund research and writing, which he will undertake in Spain between September 2012 and August 2013. Less… Continue Reading Professor David Wheat receives prestigious NEH Award
History faculty and Matrix staff are hosting an invited panel at the HASTAC conference at the University of Michigan (Dec. 1-3) on international collaborative projects in digital humanities. Among the projects to be discussed are: the Cape Town-based Community Video Education Trust digital archive; the… Continue Reading MSU Historians and Matrix at Digital Humanities Conference
Ethan Segal will be speaking on “Medieval Women and the Economy” at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Dr. Segal is currently on leave from MSU and conducting research for his next book as a Visiting Scholar at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard… Continue Reading Professor Ethan Segal to speak at Smith College