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Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies (EIHS)
Recent News
Letter from the Director
Institute celebrates twentieth anniversary with $2 million gift and new initiatives
Eisenberg Institute Names 2026-27 Fellows
Institute awards faculty, graduate student, and postdoctoral fellowships
The Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, established in 2007 by a generous gift by Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg, provides a world-class forum for historical research and teaching.
Events
Sep
17
EIHS Lecture: “Ordered to Leave”: Expulsion and the Origins of Jim Crow in Small-town America, 1890s-1920s
Stephen Berrey (University of Michigan)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Sep
25
EIHS Symposium: The Politics of Memory and Palestinian Struggles for History: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
Diana Abouali (Arab American National Museum), Rochelle Davis (Georgetown University)
12:00 PM
Wolverine Room
Michigan Union
Oct
01
EIHS Lecture: Imagine Lagos: Rethinking the Histories of West African Cities in the Nineteenth Century
Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (Howard University)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Oct
02
EIHS Workshop: Re/Imagining Pre/Colonial Space: (Speculative) Mapping and Layered Methodologies
12:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Oct
29
EIHS Lecture: Ottoman Roots
Samuel Dolbee (Vanderbilt University)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
