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Dr. Brian Mitchell teams up with Matrix and the Department of History to publish data on almost 3,000 freed slaves from Antebellum New Orleans. MSU Matrix Center for the Digital Humanities and the Department of History are pleased to announce the publication online of data… Continue Reading Louisiana Slaves Data on Slave Bios

Segal presented recent research on an incident from twelfth-century Japan, in which “demon-like” people reportedly attacked a coastal community.  His paper, titled “Invading Izu: Demons, Pirates, and Foreigners in Pre-modern Japan,” addresses topics including pre-modern Japanese ideas about foreigners, folktale depictions of demons, trade with… Continue Reading Professor Ethan Segal shares research findings in Seattle

Professor Ethan Segal’s chapter “Kodai • chusei Nihon no keizai shiso — mosaku no kokoromi” (“Searching for economic thought in ancient and medieval Japan”) was published in Prof. Kawaguchi Hiroshi’s edited volume Nihon no keizaishiso (Japanese Economic Thought).  In the chapter, Segal explores various historical… Continue Reading Segal book chapter on economic thought published

Ethan Segal, a scholar of East Asian monetary systems and trade, spoke for the Indiana University East Asian Studies Center in Bloomington earlier this month. He also was invited to hold a book workshop for graduate students to discuss his 2011 book Coins, Trade, and… Continue Reading Prof. Segal delivers invited talk at Indiana University

Professor Ethan Segal became president of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA) at its conference held at Washington University in St. Louis last weekend.  The MCAA brings together scholars of Asian Studies in a wide range of disciplines; it is a regional branch of… Continue Reading Segal elected MCAA President