College of Social Science
3rd year PhD candidate Eddie Bonilla has been awarded the 2016 Somers Excellence in Teaching Award for outstanding performance as an instructor of IAH courses at Michigan State University. The Somers Award recognizes teaching assistants who have exhibited a commitment to excellence, innovation and creativity… Continue Reading Bonilla Wins Prestigious Teaching Award
Amanda Lewis (PhD, 2015) has received the Gill-Chin Lim Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Global Studies awarded by MSU International Studies and Programs Her co-advisers were Georgina Montgomery and Walter Hawthorne for her dissertation entitled “Amboseli Landscapes: Maasai Pastoralism, Wildlife Conservation, and Natural Resource… Continue Reading Lewis Wins Gill-Chin Lim Award
New York Magazine’s website ‘The Cut’ Book Club features The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan edited by our own Dr.’s Lisa Fine and Kirsten Fermaglich. http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/03/11-books-were-reading-right-now.html
On March 10, Emily Elliott, a student in our graduate program, will be speaking to the International Graduate Student Workshop in Soviet History at the European University on “Labor Migration, Citizenship, and the Boundaries of Belonging in Late Soviet Moscow.” Ms. Elliott is spending the… Continue Reading Elliott to speak at International Graduate Student Workshop
On March 9 Lewis Siegelbaum will be lecturing at the European University at St. Petersburg on “Transnationalism in One Country? Seeing Migration in Soviet History.” For details go to: http://eu.spb.ru/en/forthcoming-events/16140-transnationalism-in-one-country-seeing-migration-in-soviet-history.