Please join the History Department in celebrating the undergraduates at the Department's Annual Senior Honors Colloquium 2024. The program can be downloaded here. Department of History Senior Honors Colloquium Friday, 17 May 2024 HSSB 4020 Coffee: 8:45 am First Panel, 9-10:30 a.m.: To Get Us Started… Roselind Zeng, “Chinese Protein PR: Selling Soymilk […]
Please join the History Department in celebrating the undergraduates at the Department's Annual Senior Honors Colloquium 2023. The program can be downloaded here. 9:00 AM – Welcoming Remarks Stephan Miescher, Chair, History Department Debra Blumenthal, Director of 2022-23 Senior Honors Seminar 9:10-10:40 - Panel I – Women and Politics Across Time and Space […]
In A Dam for Africa historian Stephan Miescher explores four intersecting narratives that weave together around Akosombo: Ghanaian aspirations about building a hydroelectric dam in the context of decolonization and Cold War; international efforts of the US aluminum industry in benefiting from Akosombo through subsidizing the VALCO aluminum smelter; local stories of upheaval and devastation […]
