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Dr. Andrea Louie, Director of the Asian Pacific American Studies program and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, talks with university about her research on the adoption of Chinese children by American parents. To read the story and watch Dr. Louie’s video interview, visit http://news.msu.edu/staff-faculty/story/10270 [photo copyright: MSU University
The GSA is looking for awesome, unusual, and/or beautiful treasures to feature in this year’s Silent Auction. If you would like to donate a treasure, please bring the item to 412 Baker Hall anytime between 9-5pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays or contact Sylvia (deskajsy@msu.edu) to
One of six Governor’s Awards for Historic Presevation was presented to MSU for the Saints’ Rest Archaeological Project on May 18, 2006.
Andrea Louie’s book Chineseness Across Borders: Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States (Duke University Press, 2004) received the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in the category of Social Sciences for titles published in 2004.
Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture , edited by Jacqueline Royster and Ann Marie Simpkins, received the 2006 College English Association of Ohio Nancy Dasher Award. Susan Krouse, faculty member in Anthropology, has a chapter in this volume, titled: “Transforming Images:
Robert A. Birmingham and Lynne Goldstein, Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town, won The Midwest Independent Publishers Association Merit Award for the History category, 2006.
Elizabeth Drexler’s Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) has won an award by Association of Third World Studies (ATWS) Cecil B. Currey Book-Length Publications Award for 2007-2008.
Edited by Russell K. Skowronek and Kenneth E. Lewis (University Press of Florida) Overview: “For the first time we have a volume that shows us the story of archaeology at some of our most significant and cherished institutions, America’s colleges and universities.”–Richard C. Waldbauer, National
Elizabeth F. Drexler (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) Award: Association of Third World Studies (ATWS) Cecil B. Currey Book-Length Publications Award for 2007-2008. Overview: “A needed critique of the often-romanticized vision of ‘reconciliation through truth commissions’ for nations caught up in historical cycles of violence.”–Susan
Edited by: Alec Campbell, Larry Robbins and Michael Taylor (Michigan State University Press) Overview: Tsodilo Hills is a richly illustrated account one of the world’s oldest and most beautiful historical sites: For 100,000 years, inhabitants of Botswana’s Tsodilo Hills region left behind a record of