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Spring 2019 Alumni Newsletter

Spring 2019 Alumni Newsletter

History. Never present. Always with us.

While our history may be behind us, we’re constantly grappling with the consequences of what happened in the past as we enact our present. In IU History, we’ve flipped the flow of history and challenged ourselves to take a few things from the present that make our past interactive...

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Awards for Faculty, Alumni & Current Students

Emily J. Sano (B.A., History, 1966) received a 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award from IU’s College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Sano, who holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Asian Art History from Columbia University, is currently the Coates-Cowden-Brown Senior Advisor for Asian Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art. She previously served as director of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Interview with Emily Sano: https://magazine.college.indiana.edu/issues/spring-2018/articles/curatorial-call.html
Roger B. Beck, (D., History, 1987) Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, Eastern Illinois University, received the "Pioneer in World History" award from the World History Association. It is their highest honor and is awarded for "the extraordinary contributions of individuals to world history studies that have advanced the field in a significant way."
Professor of History and Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies Mark Roseman was named a Distinguished Professor, the highest academic rank for scholars and researchers at IU.
Maria Bucur, John V. Hill Professor of History and Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the National University for Political Science and Public Administration (SNSPA) in Bucharest.
Cara Caddoo, Kalani Craig, and Jason McGraw received the 2018 Trustees Teaching Award.
PhD student Szabolcs László won 2018 ASEEES Graduate Student Essay Prize for an outstanding essay by a graduate student in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, for his paper entitled: "Performing for the Capitalists: Cold War Cultural Diplomacy Experienced by Hungarian and Romanian Writers at the Iowa International Writing Program”.
Ph.D. student Samuel Fajerstein won the 2018 REEI Daniel Armstrong Memorial Research Paper Award for his essay: “A Microprocess of Stalinization, 1928-1930: The Transformation of Puti sel’skogo khoziaistva and the “Army of Soviet Agronomists.”
Undergraduate student Lauren Meadows received a 2018 Provost Undergraduate Research Award, advisor: Dr. Jason McGraw.
Chad Parker, 2008 Ph.D., won the 2017 Ray P. Authement Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. More information can be found at https://www.ullafayettefoundation.org/event/celebrateefa, including a video on his award at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAUP209UkSo.
Kalani Craig is the PI on Net.Create, a 2-year $300,000 NSF-funded grant that explores how network analysis can help improve undergraduate history reading comprehension.
Eric Sandweiss heads the Human Communities team in the project "Prepared for Environmental Change". This interdisciplinary project received a multi-million dollar IU Grand Challenge grant.
Noam Zadoff's book Gershom Scholem: From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back received the 2018 Concordia University Azrieli Institute Award for Best Book in Israel Studies.
Leah Shopkow won The William and Edwyna Gilbert Award for the best article in a journal, magazine, or other serial on teaching history, for “How Many Sources Do I Need,” The History Teacher 50, no. 2 (February 2017).
Peter Guardino’s book, The Dead March: A History of the Mexican American War (Harvard University Press, 2017) was awarded the Western History Association’s Robert M. Utley Prize for the best book published on the military history of the frontier and western North America from prehistory through the twentieth century.

Alumni News

Barbara C. Allen, 2001 IU Ph.D. and Associate Professor of History at La Salle University, has published Leaflets of the Russian Revolution: Socialist Organizing in 1917 (Haymarket Books, 2018).
Joseph Stubenrauch, 2011 Ph.D. has published his book, The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Industrial Britain, with Oxford University Press.
René Harder Horst, 1998 IU Ph.D., is the I.G. Greer Distinguished Professor in History 2018-2021 at Appalachian State University.
Lynn Sargeant, 2001 IU Ph.D., has begun a new role as Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at South Dakota State University this year.
Jack McCord, 1976 BA, French and History, accepted the College Luminaries Program’s invitation to serve as a Single-Day College Luminary in March 2018.
Thomas Spencer, 1996 Ph.D. accepted an appointment as Dean of the Honors College at Texas A&M-Kingsville in 2018.
Alaina Roberts, 2017 Ph.D., who is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, accepted a tenure-track position at that same institution.
Sarah Foss, 2018 Ph.D., accepted a tenure-track position, Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University
Sarah Rowley, 2015 Ph.D., accepted a tenure-track position, Assistant Professor, DePauw University
Kimberly Stanley, 2015 Ph.D., accepted a tenure-track position, Assistant Professor, Indiana State University
Carl Suddler, 2015 Ph.D., accepted a tenure-track position, Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University
IU History Ph.D. Tanisha Fordwas featured on CBS News, where she analyzed Childish Gambino's "This is America" video: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/analyzing-childish-gambinos-powerful-music-video-this-is-america/. Tanisha is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History at the University of Delaware and the author of Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), which won the 2016 Organization of American Historians' Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for best book on civil rights history.
Justin Forkner, 2001 BA History, was named a new chief administrative officer by the Indiana Supreme Court. https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/48432-supreme-court-names-fortner-as-new-cao
Hans Klemm, 1980 BA in History and Economics, has had a lengthy career with the State Department, and since 2015 has served as U.S. Ambassador to Romania. https://ro.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/our-ambassador/

Faculty News

Rebecca Spangis spending the 2018-2019 academic year as a Visiting Fellow at the International Center for Finance (Yale School of Management).
Micol Seigel's book, Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police, was published in August by Duke University Press.
Maria Bucur’s book, The Century of Women: How Women Have Transformed the World since 1900, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2018.
Maria Bucur’s book, Birth of Democratic Citizenship. Women and Power in Modern Romania, co-authored with Mihaela Miroiu, was published in 2018 by Indiana University Press.
Mirjam and Noam Zadoff's co-edited volume: Scholar and Kabbalist: The Life and work of Gershom Scholem was published earlier this month with Brill.
Pedro Machado published an edited volume, Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Jeff Gould’s documentary film, Port Triumph, had its U.S. premiere screening at the IU Cinema in February and received additional screenings in California, New York, Mexico, Costa Rica, and El Salvador.

John Bodnar, Chancellor's Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana Universitygave the annual Paul V. McNutt lecture, “Patriotic Optics and America's War on Terror.”
Ben Eklof was named a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities under the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
Marissa Moorman presented a keynote address "Política e cultura na independência de Angola" (Politics and culture in Angola Independence) at the I Seminário Internacional de Estudos Africanos e Diaspóricos: Estado, Nação e Cultura para além Fronteras at Universidade Internacional de Integração da Lusofonia Afro-brasileira (UNILAB) Campus de Liberdade, Redenção, Brazil.

Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History Robert H. Ferrell died on August 8. We published a tribute written by our own Nick Cullather, one of Professor Ferrell's many students, in our August 30 newsletter. You'll also find an obituary by James Grant, another Ferrell student, in the Wall Street Journal and an obituary in the Aug. 22, 2018, edition of the New York Times.

John M. (Jack) Thompson, a distinguished diplomatic historian and a member of the History department from 1959 to 1976, died on March 6, 2018 at the age of 90. One of the founders of the Indiana University Russian and East European Institute, Jack was a wonderfully effective and popular teacher. At Indiana, he directed the dissertation research and writing of more than two dozen of our doctoral students in modern Russian history.

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Spring 2019 Alumni Newsletter

Spring 2019 Alumni Newsletter

History. Never present. Always with us.

Awards for Faculty, Alumni & Current Students

Alumni News

Faculty News

The College of Arts & Sciences

Spring 2019 Alumni Newsletter

Spring 2019 Alumni Newsletter

History. Never present. Always with us.

Awards for Faculty, Alumni & Current Students

Alumni News

Faculty News

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