Victoria Coifman

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Afro-American & African Studies 825 Soc Sci

Department Affiliations

Chair, Presenter, and Commentator, Fifth International Conference on Mande Studies, Leiden, Netherlands: June 17, 2002 - June 21, 2002
African Studies Association 45th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.: December 5, 2002 - December 8, 2002
Curriuculum Committee Member, African American & African Studies, University of Minnesota: 2002 - 2003

Faculty Travel Grant, European Studies Consortium for travel to Dakar Senegal, February 2002

Gary Cohen Awarded Austrian Medal of Honor

Gary Cohen has been awarded the Austrian Medal of Honor (Verdienstkreuz) for Science and Arts, First Class. The ceremony was held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington. He was presented the award by Dr. Christian Prosl, the Austrian Ambassador to the United States.
Congratulations to Gary! This is a much-deserved recognition of Gary's scholarship on the Habsburg Empire and his leadership of the Center for Austrian Studies.
November 17th, 2009
Regina Kunzel, Lambda Literary Award Recipient

Regina Kunzel has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Studies for her book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Congratulations Regina.
June 5th, 2009
Donna Gabaccia, Fesler-Lampert Chair

Tthe Graduate School has appointed Donna Gabaccia to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities for 2009-2010.
June 5th, 2009