Fall S emester 2009

Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

We start this year with a new theme and a new director – both untried but prepared to maintain the intellectual excitement that has marked the Eisenberg Institute under Kathleen Canning. Our Institute is a hub for the community of historians and historically-minded scholars and students at the University of Michigan and more widely in the region. The aim is to carry on a serious conversation, informed by the best scholarship, over the next two years around the theme “Paucity and Plenty.” It is hard to imagine a more relevant focus of investigation at a moment when the foundations of how Americans and others produce, exchange, and consume are being questioned across the globe. Historicizing the current conjuncture when mass media trivializes and distorts what people need to know highlights the renewed importance for the work that historians do. There is no ivory tower at Michigan – not in a state 2009-2010 EIHS Steering Committee that has the highest unemployment rate in the nation – and the Eisenberg Institute aims to advance the examination Ronald Suny, Director of the past, present, and future of this particular crisis Christian de Pee of capitalism and consumption. As part of our bringing Matthew Lassiter together historical research with questions touching Farina Mir the lives of many, we are launching two new long-term projects: a world history initiative, directed by Douglas Northrop, Bob Bain, and Kathleen Canning, growing out of our extraordinarily successful May 2009 seminar; and a public history initiative, directed by Michelle McClellan, now in the Department of History, the Residential College, and the Eisenberg Institute. Both of these initiatives will be reflected in this year’s programming. , Kerry Ward, Aims McGuinness, Ulrike Strasser, and Heidi Tinsman will be lecturing and leading workshops with a world historical thrust. Public history will be reflected in a series of outreach programs as well as a January workshop on “Obama Through the Disciplines” to mark the president’s first year in office. Our invited lecturers include former faculty members William H. Sewell, Jr., and George Sanchez, as well as medievalist Sharon Farmer, environmental historian , American cultural historian T. J. Jackson Lears, and our own Rebecca Scott, Matthew Countryman, Thomas Trautmann, and Miranda Johnson. The Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies is meant to be a center for social and personal interchange as well as a venue for historical programming. The residential fellows coming to us from area institutions share our space and hospitality with Michigan faculty research fellows and graduate Lack fellows. The best coffee machine in Haven Hall constantly attracts the caffeine-needy. Join us on Thursday afternoons for our lectures, Friday at noon for our workshops, as well as at our receptions and special events. Let us know how the Institute is working and might do even better. We look forward to the coming year!

Ron Suny Director

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Founders Room, Alumni Center Alumni Founders Room, December 10 Johnson Miranda and “When the Settlers Don’t Go Home: Indigenous Rights of Settler Societies” the Re-Founding October 29 George Sánchez Conference for the Latina/Latino Studies Keynote of Crisis: Mexican Repatriation Times in Removals “Population and Slum Clearance in the (Last) Great Depression” November 19 Sharon Farmer c. 1300: Social and Cultural Interactions “Landscapes of Power, of Hesdin” at the Garden-Park October 1 Kenneth Pomeranz in Long-run and Chinese Development “Land Rights, Resources, and Comparative Perspective” October 15 William H. Sewell, Jr Emerging Democracies Center for Jointly sponsored with the Weiser of Possibility—from “The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions 1789-2009” * September 17 Rebecca Scott, University Diouf, Columbia with respondent Mamadou Six Generations of a Creole Family” “Microhistory Set in Motion:

Thursday Lecture Thursday 1014 Tisch Hall 4-6pm Hall Tisch 1014 Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Historical for Institute Eisenberg Rebecca Scott George Sánchez Sept. 17-18 is the Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and is Professor of American Studies, Ethnicity, and History at the University Oct. 29 Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. She received an AB from of Southern California, where he also serves as Director of the Center Radcliffe College, an MPhil in economic history from the London School of for Diversity and Democracy, and as Director of College Diversity for the Economics, and a PhD in history from Princeton University. Her book Degrees College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. He received his BA from Harvard of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery appeared from Harvard College and his PhD from Stanford University. Sanchez is the author of University Press in fall 2005 and received the Frederick Douglass Prize and the Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Prize. Professor Scott is a member of American Academy Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (Oxford, 1993) and co-editor of Los Angeles of Arts and Sciences, and a recent recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship. At and the Future of Urban Cultures (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005) the Law School she teaches a seminar on the law in slavery and freedom, and and Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (University of Michigan a course on the boundaries of citizenship in historical perspective. Press, forthcoming 2009). He is Past President of the American Studies Association in 2001-02, and is one of the co-editors of the book series, “American Crossroads: New Works in Ethnic Studies,” from the University of California Press. Oct. 1-2 Kenneth Pomeranz is Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. He Nov. 19-20 received his PhD from in 1988. Most of his research focuses on Modern China and its economy; namely, the reciprocal influences of state, Sharon Farmer society, and economy in late Imperial and twentieth-century China. His best is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She known book is The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of received her PhD from Harvard University in 1983 and has been a professor the Modern World Economy (Princeton, 2000), winner of the 2000 John K. of UCSB since 1986. Her field of interest is the history of medieval Europe, Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and co-winner of the with special attention to issues surrounding France, women, gender, towns, 2001 World History Association Book Prize. With Steven Topik, he co-authored saints’ cults, and monasticism. Her major publications include Gender and The World that Trade Created: Society, Culture and the World Economy, 1400 Difference in the Middle Ages (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and to the Present (M.E. Sharpe, 1999). He is also co-founder of The China Beat: Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology and the Daily Lives of Blogging How the East is Read, and a co-editor of The Journal of Global the Poor (Cornell, 2002). She is also the coeditor, with Barbara Rosenwein, History. of Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society (Cornell, 2000) and the author of Communities of Saint Martin: Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours (Cornell, 1991). Oct 15-16 Dec. 10 William H. Sewell, Jr. is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science at the University of Chicago. Sewell received his BA Miranda Johnson in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1962 and his PhD is a visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971. He has made significant of Michigan and also a fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows. In Fall 2010 contributions in the areas of modern French social and political history and she will join the History department and American Indian Studies Program the relationship between history and social theory. Over the years, much of at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works on Anglophone settler Sewell’s work has revolved around the development of a theoretical vocabulary colonialism in North America and Australasia and the history of indigenous that simultaneously speaks to history and the other social sciences. Most of rights. She completed her PhD at the University of Chicago in 2008 and this work is now published in Logics of History: Social Theory and Social is currently working on her book manuscript which seeks to contextualize

Transformation (University of Chicago Press, 2005). the efforts by settler societies to recognize indigenous rights’ claims within a

broader history of decolonization and postcoloniality.

Paucity Plenty THURSDAY SPEAKER SERIES - FALL 2009 enactments& expectations EISENBERG INSTitute 2009 - 2010 EIHS Internal FELLOWS Stephen Ward is Assistant Professor of the Residential College and CAAS. Ward received a PhD in history from Jay Cook the University of Texas in 2002. His teaching and writing focus on two areas of recent American is Associate Professor of History and American Culture. Cook received a PhD in U.S. History from history. One is African American political thought and social movements, particularly the Black the University of California-Berkeley in 1996. He is the author of The Arts of Deception: Playing with Power movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s. The other area is the evolution of cities since World Fraud in the Age of Barnum (Harvard, 2001) and The Colossal P.T. Barnum Reader (University of War II, with an emphasis on grassroots activism and community-based approaches to urban Illinois Press, 2005). With Lawrence B. Glickman and Michael O’Malley, he co-edited The Cultural redevelopment. He is completing a dual-biography of two long-time Detroit activists, James and Turn in U.S. History: Past, Present, and Future (University of Chicago Press, 2008). He is currently Grace Lee Boggs, and he is a board member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture working on a book manuscript entitled “The Lost Black Generation: African-American Performers and Community Leadership, a community-based organization in Detroit. the Birth of Modern Show Business.” 2009 - 2010 EIHS RESIDENCY RESEARCH FELLOWS Martha Jones is Associate Professor of History and CAAS, and Visiting Professor of Law. Jones holds a PhD in history from Columbia University (2001) and a J.D. from the CUNY School of Law (1987). She directs the Law and Cynthia Bouton is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University. She received her PhD from SUNY Slavery and Freedom Project, with Rebecca J. Scott (Michigan) and Jean Hébrard (EHESS), and serves Binghamton. Her publications include The Flour War: Gender, Class and Community in Late Ancien on the editorial board of the Journal of Women’s History. She is the author of All Bound Up Regime France (1993); “French Food Riots: Provisioning, Power, and Popular Protest, from the Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 (University of North Caro- 17th-19th Centuries” in Riot: From Resistance to Rebellion in Britain and France, 1381 to the lina Press, 2007). Her current work includes two book projects: “Overturning Dred Scott: Everyday Life at Present (forthcoming 2009); and “’La Liberté, l’égalité, et la libre circulation des grains’: le problème the Intersection of Race and Law in an Antebellum City” and “Riding the Atlantic World Circuit: One House- de l’économie morale,” Annales historiques de la Révolution française (2000). She is completing a hold’s Journey through the Law of Slavery and Freedom.” book project that explores the resonances of social violence in French culture.

Michelle McClellan Denver Brunsman is Assistant Professor of U.S. and Public History. She received her PhD from Stanford in 2000. She is Assistant Professor of History at Wayne State University. He completed his MA and PhD at Princeton University and is currently writing a book, The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in is interested in issues of place and memory, and has embarked on a study of heritage tourism at the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, to be published by the University of Virginia Press. The book the sites associated with the “Little House” books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. In her courses, McClellan, a explores the impact of forced naval service on sailors and communities in colonial America and the Michigan native, encourages students to engage in public and community history. She also special- early United States, the British West Indies, and the British Isles. Brunsman is also the co-editor of izes in medical history, particularly the history of addiction. She is currently completing a book manu- the forthcoming books, “Colonial America: Essays in Politics” and “Social Development and Revolution- script that uses the figure of the alcoholic woman as a way to explore the complex ary Detroit: A Global Legacy”. During the 2007-2008 academic year, he was a National Endowment for intersection of gender and medicalization in modern American history. the Humanities Fellow at the in Chicago.

Ian Moyer Christopher Phelps is Assistant Professor of History and Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History. He com- is Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University, teaching primarily on the Mansfield pleted his PhD at the University of Chicago in 2004. Moyer is currently completing a book, entitled “At the campus, which awarded him its Excellence in Scholarship Award in 2006. A specialist in twentieth- Limits of Hellenism: Egyptian Priests and the Greek World,” in which he explores the ancient history and century U.S. intellectual and political history, Phelps completed his PhD at the University of Roches- modern historiography of cultural and intellectual encounters between ancient Greeks and Egyptians. This ter and was twice a Fulbright scholar. He served in 2000 as senior lecturer in the history of work has drawn him into the intersections between history, classics, Egyptology, and the history of philosophy at the University of Pécs in Hungary, and in 2004-2005 as distinguished chair in Ameri- religions, as well as the questions of culture and identity that have been at issue in fields such as can Studies and Literature at the University of Łódź in Poland. He is the author of Young Sidney anthropology and post-colonial studies. Hook and has written for periodicals such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Nation, New Politics, American Quarterly, The Journal of American History, and The American Historical Review.

Brian Porter-Szűcs is Associate Professor of History. He was awarded the 2006 LSA Excellence in Education Award by Keely Stauter-Halsted the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. His most recent publications include For God and earned her PhD in history from the University of Michigan in 1993. She is Associate Professor and Fatherland: Poland, Catholicism, and Modernity (Oxford, forthcoming 2009); “Hetmanka and Mother: Interim Chair of the History Department at Michigan State University. She specializes in Polish and East Representing the Virgin Mary in Modern Poland,” Contemporary European History 14:2 (May 2005): European history, nationalism studies, gender history and Polish-Jewish relations. Her first book, The 151-70; and “Anti-Semitism and the Search for a Catholic Modernity,” in Robert Blobaum, ed., Anti- Nation in the Village: The Genesis of National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914, was awarded the semitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland (Cornell, 2005). His book, When Nationalism Began Orbis Prize in Polish Studies for 2001. She is currently working on a monograph that traces debates to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland (Oxford, 2000), will appear soon in about regulated prostitution in the partitioned Polish lands, focusing especially on female urban poverty, a Polish translation published by Pogranicze Press. rural-urban migration, international trafficking, bourgeois charity workers, and early eugenics organizations.

Penny Von Eschen Lewis Siegelbaum is Professor of History and American Culture. She is the author of Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz is Professor of Russian History at Michigan State University. He received his D. Phil. From Oxford in Ambassadors Play the Cold War (Harvard, 2004) and Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolo- 1976 after which he taught at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Stakha- nialism, 1937-1957 (Cornell, 1997). She is co-editor, along with Manisha Sinha, of Contested Democracy: novism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941 (1988), Stalinism as a Way of Life Freedom, Race, and Power in American History (Columbia, 2007); and co-editor along with Janice Radway, (2000, coauthored with Andrei Sokolov), and Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile Kevin Gaines, and Barry Shank of American Studies: An Anthology (Blackwell-Wiley Press, 2008). Von Es- (2008). His work in Soviet history has been animated by an interest in the intersection of technology, chen was awarded the 2008 Dave Brubeck Institute Distinguished Achievement Award and has co-curated ideology, and material culture. He currently is editing “The Socialist Car: Automobility in the Eastern the photography exhibition, Jam Sessions: America’s Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World. She is Bloc”, a collection of articles, and is just beginning a large project with Leslie Page Moch on currently working on a transnational history of Cold War nostalgia. repertoires and regimes of migration in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet states. Paucity & Plenty Enactments & Expectations theEisenberg Institute Workshop Series... Global History Subjecthood inNineteenth-CenturyColonialNatal” ‘Custom’ andtheMakingofCitizenship& ‘Labor’, “Gendering Relations,EngenderingRule: Nafisa EssopSheik in Indonesiathe1960s” “The Takeover andReturnofForeignEnterprises Will Redfern Transnationalism” “Recasting Caste: A GeneologyofDalit Purvi Mehta Research Fellows Graduate Student Janey Hungers: Bengal1940-1946” “In SearchofFamine, A Topography of Too Many Janam Mukherjee in FrenchIndia,1699-1761” “Where DoGo-BetweensGo?ColonialIntermediaries Danna Agmon Eisenberg Graduat e Fllows of South Africa’s SyntheticCoal-to-OilProject” “Apartheid’s Moderns: Towards aCulturalHistory Stephen Sparks April 8-9 March 25 March 11-12 February 18-19 February 4 January 14 Winter 2010Speakers an initiativehoused within and Mel

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