- Colin Elliott gave an invited paper at the 2016 Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting in San Francisco, entitled “The Construction of Currency and Roman Imperialism” as part of the panel “The Anthropology of Roman Culture: Models, History, Society”.
- Jessie Kindig has two forthcoming articles in spring and fall 2016. Her article “Looking Beyond the Frame: Snapshot Photography, Imperial Archives, and the U.S. Military’s Violent Embrace of East Asia” will be published in Radical History Review’s special issue “Reconsidering Gender, Violence, and the State” in Fall 2016. A long book review essay, “Contestation and Counter-Conduct in the Imperial Pacific,” will publish in American Quarterly’s March 2016 issue.
- In November Indiana University Press published Kevin Martin’s book, Syria's Democratic Years: Citizens, Experts, and Media in the 1950s. In December his article, "'Behind Cinerama's Aluminum Curtain': Cold War Spectacle and Propaganda at the First Damascus International Exposition," was published in the Journal of Cold War Studies (Volume 17, Number 4, Fall 2015, 39-58).
- Graduate student Samson Ndanyi’s book chapter, "Reassessing Jomo Kenyatta's Crackdown on Theatre for Education and Development," was published in Kenya After 50: Reconfiguring Education, Gender, and Policy (Palgrave Macmillan 2016).
- John Nieto-Phillips presented the paper, “US Hispanism and the Enigmatic Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa,” at the 103rd Meeting of the American Historical Association, in Atlanta, on January 9, 2016.
- Eric Robinson presided at the panel "Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare," held at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Francisco, January 9, 2016.
- At the 130th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, in Atlanta, Kaya Sahin organized a session sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America: "From European Renaissances to Global Early Modernities: A Discussion." He was joined by Cornell H. Fleischer (Chicago), Charles H. Parker (St. Louis), and Sebouh D. Aslanian (UCLA).
- Rebecca Spang’s Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution (Harvard) has been named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015.
- Graduate student Alex Tipei presented "A Cultural Debt: Greece, France, and the Idea of European Civilization" at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association last week.
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