College of Social Science
Professor Kirsten Fermaglich was featured on “Who Do You Think You Are?” She helped Rashida Jones trace her family. http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/rashida-jones/1399929
Professor Nwando Achebe’s Female King of Colonial Nigeria has won two awards, the Gita Chaudhuri Prize and The Babara “Penny” Kanner Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians. The Awards Banquet was held in Berkeley, CA on May 5, 2012.
In this new episode of the podcast hosted by MSU historians Peter Alegi and Peter Limb, David Newbury (Smith College) discusses the historical dynamics of kingship, legitimacy, and violence in Central and East Africa. He focuses on Alison Des Forges’s Defeat is the Only Bad News:… Continue Reading Episode 62 of Africa Past and Present released
Professor Liam Brockey is delivering a paper entitled “The Unpublished Travels of a European Theologian in Late Ming China”. The symposium is sponsored by the University of Bonn and the Ostasien Instititut (Bonn), and is accompanied by a museum exhibition and other festivities celebrating European-Chinese… Continue Reading Liam Brockey- Delivering paper in Bonn, Germany
Melissa Klapper of Rowan University will be on campus Thursday, April 26, in connection with the Telling Family Stories: Jews, Genealogy, and History Initiative” of the MSU Jewish Studies Program this year. She will do a brown bag talk on “Ballots, Babies, and Ballots of… Continue Reading Melissa Klapper, 4/26/12 – Brown Bag – Ballots, Babies, and Ballots of Peace: American Jewish Women’s Pre-WWII Activism