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WMU History Department News
Fall 2011
- Memorial Service Planned for WMU History Professor Catherine Julien, Sunday September 25
- Retirement Reception Planned for Office Coordinator Brenda Brewer, Wednesday August 31
- Professor Emeritus George Beech Publishes New Book
Spring 2011
- Professor Eli Rubin publishes a View onto Germany in Humboldt Kosmos
- Professor Lewis Pyenson's article "Technology's Triumph Over Science" in The Chronicle Review
- Dr. David Blight to Deliver 2011 Hamner Lecture, March 22
- Memorial Service Planned for Professor Nora H. Faires on Sunday, March 13, 2:00 p.m., in Western's Gilmore Theatre Atrium Lobby
- Professor Lewis Pyenson, Jan. 31, Faculty Brownbag Presentation
Fall 2010
- Professor Paul Maier to Retire After Fifty Years at WMU
- History Department Fall 2010 Newsletter Now Online
- Professor Victor Xiong, Dec. 6, Faculty Brownbag Presentation
- Dr. Rachel Koopmans, Nov. 2, History, Memory, and the Uses of the Past Lecture Series
- Film Screening and Reception, Oct. 21, to Celebrate the Life of African Sculptor Lamidi Fakeye
- Dr. Mark Roseman, Sept. 23, History, Memory, and the Uses of the Past Lecture Series
- Full 2010-11 Schedule of History Dept. Lecture Series Announced
- Dr. Sally Hadden, Sept. 15, Constitution Day Lecture
- Professor Sally Hadden Joins the Department
- Brandao Wins Multiple Research Grants
Spring 2010
- Kachun to Speak at Juneteenth and Historical Marker Unveiling in PA
- Staggs Wins Two Research Grants
- Dr. Takashi Yoshida, April 5, Faculty Research Brown Bag Series
- Phi Alpha Theta Regional Michigan Conference Prizes Announced
- Professors Warren and Martini Honored by the College of Arts and Sciences
- Dr. Carol Gluck, March 18, Annual H. Nicholas Hamner Lecture
- Phi Alpha Theta Regional Michigan Conference at WMU March 27
- Kristi Dunn, Graduate Student in Public History, Featured in the South Bend Tribune
- Dr. Frank Towers, February 18, Peace, Power, and Conflict in World History Lecture Series
- Noted Sports Historian Linda Borish Discusses the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver on WKZO
- Sculptor Lamidi Fakeye Dies
Fall 2009
- Irene Geisler Receives Fulbright Award
- WMU History Department Provides Curricular and Programmatic Models for the Nation
- Victor Xiong Honored by Sun Yat-Sen University
- Department of History Student and Faculty Awards 2008-2009
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
- Joseph L. Peyser Endowment created for the Study of New France
- Photo Gallery for Landmarks of American History Workshops for Teachers now available
- Hamner Lecture with Prof. Bruce Franklin
- History Happening Spring 08
- Historic Michigan African American Book Digitally Available
- Berkhofer Awarded Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin
- Warren Granted Fulbright to Teach and Research in Japan
- Faires Awarded Fulbright to Research in Canada
- Brandão, Heasley, and Yoshida Honored by the College of Arts and Sciences
- Forgotten but not Gone: Medieval Capitalism
- Prof. Bruce Franklin to Present 07-08 Hamner Lecture
- History Curricular Changes in Progress
- Mitch Kachun's book named Choice Book of the Year
Fall 2007
- Joseph L. Peyer endowment created for the study of New France
- Dr. David Killingray to visit WMU in mid-October 2007 for a public lecture
- William C. Donohoe to represent History Dept. at Alumni Reception
- WMU Canadian Studies sponsors visit by Prof. Joy Parr
- History Department Welcomes Andrea Berto to the Faculty
- New History Department Computer Lab in Dunbar 4154
- Symposium in Honor of Ernst Breisach set for October 27
Spring 2007
- Julien and Pastrano-Perez Awarded Second NEH Grant
- Warren and History Department Awarded Third Million Dollar Grant
- Graduate students Bruce and Zwart win awards
- Xiong invited to speak at Stanford
- Eli Rubin receives Humboldt Foundation Fellowship
- Edwin Martini wins Research and Teaching Grants
- Robert Berkhofer is honored with the College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Achievement Award in Teaching
- Mitch Kachun is Winner of WMU's Emerging Scholar Award
- Phi Alpha Theta holds induction ceremony
- Nora Faires receives Albert B. Corey Prize
Fall 2006
- "Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics" documentary film premiers, Linda Borish, executive producer and historian
- History Department announces new Undergraduate Fellowship Program, effective immediately
- New scholarly books by History Department faculty
- Linda Borish is executive producer and historian for forthcoming film on Jewish women in American sport
- Catherine Julien receives NEH grant to publish exploration documents
- Howard Lindsey receives Alumni Achievement Award
- Kenneth Mills presents Hamner Lecture
Spring 2006
- Spring 2006 History Department Newsletter
- WMU students and faculty contribute to local history exhibit "'World's Largest'"
- Recognition reception for History Department graduate students
- Phi Alpha Theta holds induction ceremony
- Benedicta Ward offers lecture "The Anglo Saxons at Prayer: Together and Alone"
- New scholarly books by History Department faculty
- Catherine Julien Assists UNESCO in Identifying an Ancient Inca Road
- Gérard Bouchard offers lecture and discussion
- Phi Alpha Theta hosts information night
- Bruno Ramirez and John J. Bukowczyk join WMU’s Nora Faires to discuss “Migration in the Great Lakes Borderland”
- Professor Takashi Yoshida awarded Abe Fellowship
- Ana Presta presents public lecture titled "Material Culture, Costumes, and Indigenous Women's Representation in Early Colonial Charcas"
- Anna-Lisa Cox presents reading and discussion of her book A Stronger Kinship: One Town’s Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith
Fall 2005
- Michael “Chikuzen” Gould visits WMU
- Josef Hoben visits WMU
- Timothy A. Stoepker receives Alumni Achievement Award
- Michael Kammen presents Hamner Lecture
- The History Department welcomes Frances Ramos to the faculty
- The History Department welcomes Ed Martini to the faculty
- Brian Becker receives Fulbright award for research in Italy 2005-2006
Spring 2005
- WMU History Department celebrates the career of Professor Ross Gregory
- Rebecca Berndt receives History Department Presidential Scholar Award
- David Montgomery to present Hamner Lecture, “American Workers’ Civil War"
- Guest Speakers announced for Spring 2005
Fall 2004
- Waskar Ari to be Visiting Professor for Spring 2005
- Frederick S. Upton Graduate Fellowship in Public History: Application Deadline Jan. 15, 2005
- Laurent Dubois to present public lecture entitled "The Haitian Revolution and Human Rights"
- Sidney Mintz to present public lecture entitled "Food and History: How Many Globalizations?"
- Ellsworth Brown receives Alumni Achievement Award
Spring 2004
- Modern Europeanist Eli Rubin Joins History Department
- Travis Bruce receives Fulbright fellowship for research in Spain
- The Research Committee in the History Department announces the first History Graduate Student Colloquium
- Professor David Owusu-Ansah of James Madison University presents two public lectures on Islam and politics
- Professor Robert A. Hill presents a documentary editing workshop entitled "Editing Archival Documents"
- Professor Nora Faires hosts a discussion of her paper "'Talented and Charming Strangers from Across the Line': Gendered Nationalism, Class Privilege, and the American Women's Club of Calgary"
- Dr. Florin Curta and Mr. Richard D. Reed receive College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Achievement Awards
- Nation Iroquoise: A Seventeenth-Century Ethnography of the Iroquois, edited and translated by Dr. José António Brandão, is published
- Dr. Paul L. Maier's More Than a Skeleton is published
- Dr. Mitch Kachun's Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808–1915 is published
- Dr. Ernst A. Breisach's On the Future of History: The Postmodernist Challenge and Its Aftermath is published