UPCOMING EVENTS
- The Vanderbilt History Seminar presents Samuel Kline Cohn Jr., University of Glasgow, “The Renaissance Attachment ot Things: Material Culture in Last Wills and Testaments,” Monday, December 7, 4:10 p.m., Sarratt 325. This seminar is based on a pre-circulated paper available in Benson Hall 227 beginning Friday, November 20 through Friday, December 4.
NEW BOOK! Joel Harrington's, "The Unwanted Child: The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany," has been published by University of Chicago Press.
NEW COURSES! See the new History course offerings for Spring 2010.
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NEWS
- Nicholas M. Beasley (PhD, Vanderbilt University, 2006), "Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies 1650-1780," has been published by University of Georgia Press.
- Celso Castilho awarded the 2009 American Historical Association/Conference for Latin American History Lewis Hanke Award.
- Daniel Usner has been elected to serve as President of the American Society for Ethnohistory during 2010-11.
- Sarah Igo has been awarded a Teagle Foundation Grant of $392,000 to co-direct a three year project, the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education (2009-2012).
- W. Frank Robinson was selected to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute July 2009.
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NEW BOOK! Moses Ochonu's, "Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression," has been published by Ohio University Press.
NEW BOOKS! Please see these faculty pages for the latest publications.
Edward Wright-Rios
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