Tom Isern, NDSU

Let me draw attention to an outstanding opportunity for a graduate student with interests in the Germans from Russia, ethnicity, or the Great Plains: the Theresa Mack Germans from Russia Assistantship. The holder of this assistantship will pursure the Ph.D. in the NDSU Department of History while conducting research and programming for the NDSU Germans from Russia Heritage Collection. The stipend is good and the professional opportunities are outstanding. See this pdf flyer.

This spring 2004 I'll be teaching three courses on campus: HIST 104, HIST 382, and HIST 489.

In the fall I plan to teach HIST 103, HIST 431/631, and HIST 489.

My online seminar, HIST 730 Coyote Culture, remains in session continuously. A few people have asked about prospects for beginning my next online offering, HIST 790 Grassroots History. I'm working on it, and hope or plan to have it up and running in January.

Congratulations to the 14 completers of the Senior Seminar, capstone course for the major in History. We've had paper presentations the past two weeks. I've told the students, and let me now say it here publicly: the papers comprise an outstanding body of work. Well done. Well done indeed.

This posting begins a weblog to be framed into my home page at NDSU. The blog will provide information on my professional activities at the university.