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