To help assure systematic exploration of Institute issues and themes, the EIHS involves a core group of Michigan History faculty who participate regularly in all of its seminars, colloquia, and other program activities. Other department and university faculty are encouraged, of course, to participate in as many Institute activities as their schedules allow. Departmental faculty can become Institute Affiliates by receiving a one-year Institute fellowship. Affiliation as a member of the Steering Committee is normally for two years.
Contingent on funding, the Institute also offers Residency Research Grants to scholars with distinguished records of scholarly achievement. Information concerning these grants may be obtained by enquire to eisenberginstitute@umich.edu.
Director (2006-2008)
Kathleen Canning, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Professor of History, Women's Studies and German.
Professor Canning's fields of expertise are modern German history, modern European social and cultural history, and history of social movements, gender, family, and women. She was awarded the Central European Conference Group Book Prize for her first book, Languages of Labor and Gender (Cornell University Press, 1996) and she has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council for Learned Societies, the German Marshall Fund, and the Stanford University Humanities Center. She is also the recipient of the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award and the John D'Arms Prize for Distinguished Mentoring in the Humanities from Rackham Graduate School. She was the founding director of Center for European Studies at the University of Michigan.
Steering Committee
John Carson, Associate Professor of American History, studying American intellectual/cultural history; history of science; history of the human sciences; modern European intellectual.
Val Kivelson, Professor of Russian History, studying Early modern Russia, witchcraft, cultural history, gender, religion, history of cartography, empire.
Damon Salesa, Associate Professor of The British Empire, studying New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific Islands; racial & colonial discourses, especially race ?mixedness?; Indigenous histories; the politics of history making and history writing.
