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April 2009 Archives
Continue reading There Comes a Moment.
Graduate student Isaac Joslin compares the real and the representative in postcolonial African literature and culture
By Isaac Joslin, Ph.D. candidate
Continue reading African Baroque.
Continue reading Jordan Hart: Nursing and Finnish.
Continue reading Jennifer Decker: German Studies and Global Studies.
Continue reading Iman Hassan: German Studies and Global Studies.
Continue reading Kellie Holler: German and Dutch.
Continue reading Recently Awarded Ph.D.’s.
Continue reading Emeriti Faculty News.
Continue reading New Books by Faculty.
Continue reading Major Awards.
Dear Friend of the Department of History,
As we began preparations for our campaign to fund an endowed chair in comparative women’s history, we spoke with Sara Evans, Regents Professor of History and first professor of women’s history at the U of M. Sara, a distinguished national leader in the field of women’s history, has been a crucial voice in changing the landscape for women at the U and in history books. An excerpt from our conversation appears on this page.
If you are as inspired as we are by Sara’s remarks and would like to contribute to or learn more about the Chair in Comparative Women’s History, please feel free to contact Eva Widder at 612-626-5146 or ewidder@umn.edu.
Best regards,
Diane R. Walters
Continue reading An Interview with Sara Evans.
by Kate Tyler
Continue reading In Memoriam.
No one’s eyebrows shot up more than David Good’s when the University of Minnesota tapped him to direct its Center for Austrian Studies (CAS). With his dossier trumpeting an M.B.A. in finance as well as an interdisciplinary history Ph.D., Good believed he’d be an unlikely choice to helm a center devoted heavily to Austrian historical and cultural studies.
by Kate Tyler
Continue reading Many Paths Taken: David Good.
Continue reading New Faculty.
From the aisles of a 747 to the halls of academia to the upper echelons of U.S. foreign policymaking, Mary O’Neil McCarthy has found many ways to live out her girlhood
desire to “see the world.”
by Kate Tyler
Continue reading Smart Skeptic: Mary McCarthy.
Even in his office, RJ Devick’s bookshelf gives him away. Tucked among the financial planner’s many volumes on estate planning and tax strategies are books on the American Revolution and the Roaring Twenties, a photographic history of China, and biographies of historical figures ranging from Thomas Jefferson to Albert Einstein to Winston Churchill.
by Kate Tyler
Continue reading Connecting with History: R.J. Devick.
Continue reading The Politics of Taconite.
Continue reading Alumni Response.
by Jessica Breed
Continue reading Twice the Investment.
To be Theofanis Stavrou’s student is to join the Stavrou family. Professor Stavrou makes his south Minneapolis home a biweekly classroom.
by Jessica Breed
Continue reading All in the Family.
by Tim Brady
Continue reading Working in the Archives.
When she arrived at the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) as its new director in the fall of 2005, Donna Gabaccia felt a little overwhelmed by the riches that greeted her. But true to form, she was energized by what she found.
by Tim Brady
Continue reading Embarrassment of Riches.
Jean O’Brien vividly remembers the moment she decided to become a historian. It was in the early 1970s, and O’Brien, then a young teenager, learned that the University of Minnesota had established the first-ever academic program in American Indian studies.
by Kate Tyler
Continue reading Builder and Innovator: Jean O'Brien.
Greetings! As I reflect back on my first year leading the Department of History, my strongest impression is of the extraordinary breadth and quality of our faculty. Their research interests take in virtually every continent of the globe and every time period; they explore political and economic developments, patterns of racial, gender, and class formations, the relationships among diverse communities, religious practices, and much else.
Continue reading View from the Chair.
