Department News

The Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies advances historical research and teaching with powerful new tools for supporting visiting scholars, enriching the intellectual climate for faculty and graduate students, and extending knowledge across campus. Through lectures, workshops and other programs designed to foster scholarly exchange, the Eisenberg Institute promises to transform the teaching and study of history at Michigan. Visit the EIHS website for more information (http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eihs).

NEWS AND AWARDS

Welcome to new faculty members this year: Howard Brick (W 09), Hussein Fancy, Tiya Miles, Derek Peterson (F 09), Sherie Randolph, and Rudolph (Butch) Ware. Read more about them at New Faculty.

With great sadness, the History Department reports the passing of Professor Emeritus Bradford Perkins on June 29, 2008. A memorial service will be held September 19, 2008 at the Clements Library (3:00 p.m.)

The Department of History welcomes our new chair, Geoff Eley, Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History, who takes the helm on July 1, 2008.  The faculty, students, and staff express deep appreciation to outgoing chair Mary Kelley, Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies, for her guidance over the past three years.

The U of M Board of Regents has named Professor Susan Juster to serve as Associate Dean for Social Sciences for the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts through June 2011.

Paul C. Johnson won a 2008-09 Guggenheim Fellowship for a project exploring religion in the Americas, especially in the wake of the emancipation of slaves.

Dena Goodman has been awarded a Collegiate Professorship, one of the highest honors bestowed by LSA and the University. She will be the Lila Miller Collegiate Professor of History and Women’s Studies.

The Fall 2008 edition of the Michigan Journal of History is now on-line with newly designed website. The Journal publishes history papers by University of Michigan undergraduates and is entirely staffed by students.


FULBRIGHT FELLOWSHIPS

Ian Campbell’s project, entitled "Mapping Rule and Resistance:  Kazakh Intellectuals and the Russian Geographical Society, 1850-1900", will involve 12 months of archival research in St. Petersburg, Russia and Almaty, Kazakhstan.  He will explore the contributions of geography and ethnography to Russian ideologies of empire through close, textual analysis of the papers of the Russian Geographical Society between 1850 and 1900. 

Rebecca Grapevine will spend the year at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Center for Historical Studies doing Archival Research in both Delhi and Lucknow, India. Her dissertation is a cultural and legal study of marriage, community and citizenship in the period after Independence (1947) in India.(Title: Defining the Nation-State: Citizenship and Marriage Law in Post-Colonial India).

Josh White is working on a study of piracy and slavery in the early modern Eastern Ottoman Mediterranean. His research will be done in Istanbul, Turkey, primarily at the Prime Ministry's Ottoman Archives, the Suleymaniye Library, and ISAM.

Lara Finkbeiner, a May 2008 history honors B.A. graduate, received a 2008-09 Fulbright U.S. Student scholarship to Ecuador. Her research project is on the Colombian refugee population that is living in Quito, Ecuador. Her research will evaluate the success of the "Mexico Plan of Action," which twenty Latin American countries came together to sign in 2004 in an attempt to address the refugee issue in Latin America, especially in and around Colombia.

May 2008 B.A. graduate, Elizabeth Davisson, will be working in a German high school as an assistant in English classrooms on a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship during 2008-09.

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