Graduate Students

• Symposium in Honor of Prof. Rus Menard, May 10, 1:00-5:00pm

  The Department of History, the Minnesota Population Center, and the Early American istory Workshop invites you to join us for a symposium on May 10 in honor of Rus Menard's retirement.

  Several of Rus's former students and collaborators will be in town to share some of their recent work.

  The symposium will be held in the History Department Seminar Room
  (1210 Heller Hall) from 1:00 to 5:00.

  Menard Symposium Flyer.pdf

  Gifts in honor of Rus Menard are requested to the Early American History Workshop Fund.

  April 26th, 2012

• David Chang, Finalist for ASA Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize

  AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION AWARDS CEREMONY (2011)

  The Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize was established in 2002
  and is awarded annually for the best-published first book in American
  Studies that highlights the intersections of race with gender, class,
  sexuality and/or nation.

  The 2011 prizewinner is Cynthia M. Blair, I've Got to Make My Livin':
  Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago (University of
  Chicago Press, 2010).

  Finalist mentions go to:

  David Chang, The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics
  of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 (University of North Carolina
  Press, 2010)

  Kelly Lytle Hernández, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol.
  (University of California Press. 2010)
  

  December 19th, 2011

• Evan Roberts Takes Freshmen to 19th Century Chicago

  Students in Evan Roberts freshman seminar are immersing themselves in a different time and place -- 19th century Chicago.

  Continue reading MN Daily: Students go back in time to 19th century Chicago

  December 16th, 2011

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