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Javier Pescador’s documentary “Determined 2 Make It” on the oral histories of juveniles in Michigan detention facilities was featured on National Public Radio in the Stateside show conduced by Cinthia Canty. Professor Pescador’s interview aired on Jan.4 at 3 PM and 10 PM.

Lewis Siegelbaum and Leslie Moch have published “Transnationalism in One Country? Seeing and Not Seeing Cross Border Migration Within the Soviet Union” in Slavic Review, vol. 75, no. 4 (Winter 2016): 970-986. This is a conceptual piece that extends the notion of the USSR as… Continue Reading Siegelbaum and Moch in Slavic Review

Lewis Siegelbaum and Leslie Moch’s contribution ” Evacuation as Migration: The Soviet Experience during the Great Patriotic War” has just been published in Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age: Refugees, Travelers and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia (Indiana University Press, 2017). For the Table of… Continue Reading Siegelbaum and Moch Published

Professor Pescador was interviewed by Scott Simon for National Public Radio Weekend Edition. The segment will be aired on Saturday December 3rd between 8 to 10 AM.  The topic is a discussion on the impact of air disasters in sports.

Second year PhD student, Aaron Luedtke, has won the Stevens Researcher Travel Fellowship, awarded by the Bentley Historical Library, Ann Arbor, MI, for his project, “Cultural Memory as Evidence in Anishinaabe Speeches.”  The goal of the project is to search for traces of Indigenous cultural… Continue Reading Luedtke Wins Bentley Fellowship