College of Social Science
Congratulations to Lewis Siegelbaum, for his recent publication “Sputnik Goes to Brussels: The Exhibition of a Soviet Technological Wonder” , in Soviet Space Culture: Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies
Episode 58 of Africa Past and Present, the podcast about African history, culture, and politics, is available at: http://afripod.aodl.org In this episode, Professor Aili Mari Tripp (Political Science, University of Wisconsin Madison; President-elect, U.S. African Studies Association) discusses African women’s movements, democratization, and the paradoxes… Continue Reading African Women in Politics
The Football Scholars Forum is holding its second fall session on Wednesday, November 9, at 2pm Eastern Time. The topic is “Soccer in the Classroom.” Peter Alegi, Alon Raab, Tom McCabe, Steven Apostolov, and Sean Jacobs will each make 5 minute presentations to spark discussion… Continue Reading Football Scholars Forum
Dr. Luz María Gordillo (MSU PhD 2005) won the 2011 Book Award from the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists for Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration (University of Texas Press, 2010). The association said the book was “a terrific contribution to the… Continue Reading MSU History PhD wins major award
November 9, 2011, 5:30-6:30pm, B-91 “Indian Lands and Imperial Authorities: The Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century Ohio River Valley”Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University Europeans misunderstood Indian identity and misrepresented the ethnically diverse villages of the thousand mile-long Ohio River valley in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.… Continue Reading Newberry Seminar in American Indian Studies, Nov. 9th, 2011