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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
Nov
13
EIHS Workshop: Childhood, Gendered Affinities, and Structures of Power
Rachael Barrett, Ayriel Marie Coleman, Robert Diaz, and Henry E. Chen, LaKisha Michelle Simmons, moderator
12:00 PM
Michigan Room
Michigan League
Dec
02
Manoogian Postdoctoral Lecture | A Captive's Testimony: The Lives and Lies of an Ottoman-Armenian Prisoner in the Bastille
Daniel Ohanian, Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow in Armenian History
4:30 PM
555
Weiser Hall
Dec
04
Multi
Past Matters: Environments and Methods in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
A Conference in Honor of Paolo Squatriti
2:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Dec
10
EIHS Lecture: Race and Reckoning in the United States and Germany: Lessons from a Comparative Approach
Rita Chin (University of Michigan)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Jan
28
EIHS Lecture: The Transatlantic Slave Trade & the (Multi) Racial Origins of Early Black Print in Ghana
Carina Ray (University of Michigan)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
