College of Social Science
Congratulations to Hikabwa Chipande, PhD candidate in African history, for winning a FIFA João Havelange Research Scholarship to fund his PhD work on the Political and Social History of Football in Zambia, 1950s-1993. The $13,000 scholarship will help support Chipande’s ongoing archival research and oral interviewing… Continue Reading Hikabwa Chipande Awarded FIFA Havelange Scholarship
”Cinema, Community and Zanzibari Capitalism: a history of the film exhibition and distribution industries in East Africa,’ is the title of a talk deliver by Laura Fair at Erasmus University, Department of Finance in the School of Management, Rotterdam, The Netherlands on December 9, 2013.… Continue Reading Cinema, Community and Zanzibari Capitalism
Lucca Daniel Green, who graduated in May from our undergraduate program and is now enrolled in an M.A. in ancient history program. He just published an article in a peer reviewed journal (Classical Journal) which he wrote while at MSU.
The Football Scholars Forum final meeting of 2013 takes place on Thursday, December 5, at 4pm (9pm GMT). The group will discuss the craft of independent fútbol writing in a digital age. Our special guest (via Skype) is Jonathan Wilson, journalist, author, founder and editor of The… Continue Reading Football Scholars Forum with Jonathan Wilson on December 5
Laura Fair presented her research on the history of the film exhibition and distribution industries in Tanzania on November 27 to a delightful audience at the University of Warwick’s Global History and Culture Center, Warwick, England.