College of Social Science
“Health, Wealth, and Knowledge in Buganda, East Africa” The keynote speaker for the 2012 Africanist Graduate Student Conference will be historian Neil Kodesh from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His book, Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda, received the 2011 Melville Herskovits… Continue Reading 2012 Africanist Graduate Student Conference
MSU alum C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa’s book, “The Crooked Path to Allotment”, has been published. http://uncpressblog.com/2012/10/02/interview-c-joseph-genetin-pilawa-on-crooked-paths-to-allotment/
Michigan State University Vietnam Group Archive, a Collaborative Project, Receives NEH Funding The Michigan State University Vietnam Group Archive, a new project by Michigan State University in collaboration with Texas Tech University, recently received $264,998 in funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)… Continue Reading Michigan State University Vietnam Group Archive, a Collaborative Project, Receives NEH Funding
Meredith Roman who received her Ph.D. from our department in 2005, has just published Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937 with the University of Nebraska Press. Meredith was part of what she refers to in her preface as… Continue Reading Meredith L. Roman
Samuel J. Thomas, “Revenge of the “Clodhoppers”: Portraits of a Political Insurgency”: [A Review Essay on] Worth Robert Miller. Populist Cartoons: An Illustrated History of the Third Party Movement in the 1890s. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2011. 208 pp. [in] Journal of the… Continue Reading Samuel J. Thomas