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.

The 2008-09 theme is Topographies of Violence. The Fall 2008 schedule is on-line at (http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eihs).

NEWS

Congratulations to Millington Bergeson-Lockwood (History) and Rebekah Pite ( History and Women's Studies) on receiving an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for 2007-08. An awards ceremony will be held in the Rackham Amphitheatre on April 10 at 4:00 p.m. A limited number of awards are made yearly by Rackham School of Graduate Studies to graduate students representing schools and colleges across the University.

History seniors Mohammad Dar and Jeremy Davidson are featured by the Michigan Daily Statement as two of ten "Students of the Year " who have left their mark on campus this year. Mohammad is the president of the Michigan Student Assembly. Jeremy created "Will Work for Food", a local community service organization that raises funds for victims in Darfur. Nominations came from student groups and school deans. Read full article from March 26, 2008 issue.

The Winter 2007 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.

RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS

Rita Chin, The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2007). http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521870003

Christian de Pee , The Writing of Weddings in Middle Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth Through Fourteenth Centuries (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007).

Citizenship and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany, Edited by Geoff Eley and Jan Palmowski (Stanford University Press, 2007). http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5204%205205%20

Dario Gaggio, In Gold We Trust; Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007). http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8408.html

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950 ( Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008). 
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8526.html

Martha S. Jones, All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007) http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-8073.html

Valerie Kivelson and Joan Neuberger, co-editors, "Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture" (Yale University Press, 2008).

Scott Kurashige, The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles" (Princeton University Press, 2008) in the “Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America” series edited by William Chafe, Gary Gerstle, Linda Gordon, and Julian Zelizer.

Raymond Van Dam, The Roman Revolution of Constantine (Cambridge U.P., 2007)

Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History (Columbia University Press, 2007) edited by Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/978023114/9780231141109.HTM


CONFERENCES and SYMPOSIA

Harmony of Two Worlds?
Song, Image and Space in the Early Modern Atlantic World
The Atlantic Studies Initiative
An International Conference held at The University of Michigan
March 14-15, 2008
This event brought to campus a dozen internationally renowned scholars who will present aspects of their research on the circulation of musical and visual cultures throughout the early modern Atlantic-American world.
Conference Description
Conference Program

Writing in Public: A Celebration of Karl Pohrt, March 6-7, 2008.
Conference Website

Conceptualizing South Asia's Past at Michigan: A Conference in Honor of Thomas R. Trautmann was held Friday, October 5 and Saturday, October 6, 2007. The keynote address, "Perceptions of the Past", was delivered by Romila Thapar (Jawaharlal Nehru University). Program Flier pdf

A Tribute to Professor John V.A Fine, Jr. for his four decades of scholarship, leadership, teaching, and mentorship was held on September 28, 2007 in the Michigan League. The Symposium on Byzantine, Balkan, and Church History in his honor was held on Saturday, September 29. Read Professor Rudi Lindner's introduction here (pdf).

The Atlantic Studies Initiative held a conference on September 28-29, 2007. Religion and Empire in the Early Modern Atlantic is part of a year-long exploration of the place of religion in the Atlantic World. Program Flier pdf

Eisenberg Institute for
Historical Studies

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eihs

Course Fliers

Spring/Summer and Fall 2008

Open GSI Positions - Link

Affiliated PhD. Programs

Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History (www.umich.edu/~ipgrh).

Anthropology and History (www.lsa.umich.edu/history/idpah).

History and Women's Studies (www.lsa.umich.edu/women).

Related Programs

Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) http://www.lsa.umich.edu/mems
offers an undergraduate concentration and minor and a Graduate Certificate.

Science, Technology & Society Program (STS) http://www.umich.edu/~umsts/
offers an undergraduate minor and a Graduate Certificate.

Both Graduate Certificate Programs are open to any graduate student enrolled in a degree program in the Rackham School of Graduate Studies.