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CBHA/ACHA Announces Winner of 2019 Best Book in Canadian Business History The Canadian Business History Association – l’association canadienne pour l’histoire des affaires (CBHA/ACHA) is pleased to announce Michael Stamm’s Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in 20th Century North America(Baltimore, MD:  Johns Hopkins University… Continue Reading Stamm Wins Book Award

Doctoral candidate Brian Van Wyck has been named a postdoctoral fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. Van Wyck will defend his dissertation, titled “Turkish Teachers and Imams in Postwar Germany: Race, Islam, and Belonging,” in July. A Fulbright scholar and recipient of… Continue Reading Van Wyck Postdoc at Harvard

Yulian Wu was invited to participate in workshop “Images, Objects, and Gender in China” at Harvard University in April, 2019. At the workshop, she presented a paper titled “Jade Thumb Rings: Object, Skill, and Manchu Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century China.”  

Yulian Wu won Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies fellowship in March 2019. This fellowship will support her primary source research in China and Taiwan from 2019 to 2020 for her current book project titled “Crafting Jade: The Construction of Objects and Empire in… Continue Reading Wu Wins Fellowship

PhD candidate Ramya Swayamprakash recently had an article published in the Michigan Historical Review (Spring 2019) :“Dredge a River, make a nation great: Shipping, commerce and territoriality in the Detroit River,1870-1905,” Michigan Historical Review “Pure Michigan”: Environmental Histories of the Great Lakes State Special edition.… Continue Reading Swayamprakash in Michigan Historical Review