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Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies (EIHS)
Recent News
Eisenberg Institute Names 2024-25 Fellows
Institute awards faculty, graduate student, and postdoctoral fellowships
John Carson Named EIHS Director
Carson will begin service as the institute's eighth director on July 1, 2022
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
20
EIHS Lecture: Broken Bonds: Fugitive Bannermen, Civic virtue, and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China
Pär Cassel (University of Michigan)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Mar
27
Multi
EIHS Symposium: Silences Broken: A Symposium in Honor of Michele Mitchell
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Apr
03
EIHS Lecture: Foreigners in Their Own Land: Chernobyl under the Russian Occupation (2022)
Serhii Plokhii (Harvard University)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Apr
04
EIHS Workshop: Towards a Decolonial Methodology
Chandrica Barua, Azhar Dyussekenova, Keanu M. Heydari, Sara Ruiz, Sikandar Kumar (moderator)
12:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Apr
17
EIHS Public Lecture: Ancestors: Where Do We Come From and Why Do We Care?
Maya Jasanoff (Harvard University)
6:00 PM
Pendleton Room
Michigan Union