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Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies (EIHS)
Recent News
Eisenberg Institute Names 2025-26 Fellows
Institute awards faculty, graduate student, and postdoctoral fellowships
Dario Gaggio Named EIHS Director
Gaggio began service as the institute's ninth director on August 1, 2025
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
Mar
13
EIHS Workshop: Transpolitics of Postcolonial Orders
Vishesh Chander Guru, Shane Niesen, Leela Riesz, Clayton Van Woerkom, Yasmin Moll (moderator)
12:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Mar
26
EIHS Lecture: Ordering the Sky: The Atmospherics of Sovereignty in the Hellenistic World
Paul Kosmin (Harvard University)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Mar
27
EIHS Workshop: Identity-Making and the Environment
Bailey Franzoi, Katelin Mikos, Stephen Kolison, Meghan Looney, Ian Moyer (moderator)
12:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Apr
09
Multi
Living with Treaties Conference
The 1817 Project, the University of Michigan, and the Western Expansion of the United States
5:30 PM
Pendleton (and virtual)
Michigan Union
Apr
16
EIHS Lecture: A Pretense of Ownership: The Peremptory Enslavement of Rose Bazile (Port-au-Prince, Santiago de Cuba, New Orleans)
Rebecca Scott (University of Michigan)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
