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MSU History to Assist MSU Libraries in digitalizing records of enslaved Mississippians

February 20, 2020

Jim Giesen Selected As 2020 Mississippi Humanist of the Year by Mississippi Humanities Council

January 6, 2020

James C. “Jim” Giesen, associate professor in MSU’s Department of History, is the recipient of MHC’s 2020 Humanities Scholar Award for his work as the official scholar for the Mississippi tour of the Smithsonian Institution exhibit, “Waterways.” For Giesen’s work on “Waterways,” his award includes a commissioned work of art to be presented at the MHC annual ceremony. “Waterways” is part of the Smithsonian’s 2018-2019 traveling Museums on Main Street program, designed by Smithsonian scholars. “I am honored to have been chosen by the council to receive this award, especially because I’ve seen...

Mississippi State--the Home for Southern and Environmental History. We Go Back to Back!! Owen Hyman wins the C. Vann Woodward Prize of the Southern Historical Association . . . and we continue to rock the party!

November 12, 2019

Southern Historical Association announces C. Vann Woodward Award Winner for 2019 Athens, GA: The Southern Historical Association (SHA) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize: Owen Hyman, author of "The Cut and The Color Line: An Environmental History of Jim Crow in the Deep South’s Forests,” written under the direction of James C. Giesen at Mississippi State University. Last year, Jason Hauser, Mississippi State University, won the 2018 Woodward Award for his dissertation entitled "Southern Heat," a consideration of the idea of heat in the south and...

Mark D. Hersey Selected as Deans Eminent Scholar

October 6, 2019

Mark D. Hersey has been chosen as the 2019 Deans Eminent Scholar in Humanities at Mississippi State. Hersey's selection is recognition of his manifest contributions to the historical profession, especially in the field of environmental history. His most recent labors have been on a study of the history of Alabama's Black Belt. Some of the richest farm land in the south, the region is marked by massive poverty. Hersey's work integrates the Black Belt environment with its people and institutions. He demonstrates how rampant discrimination and other forms of inequity have combined with...

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