- Kalani Craig is the recipient of a 2016-2017 Learning Analytics Fellowship, for which she will compare student performance and retention between two IUB student groups, those who fulfill S&H requirements via a Department of History course and those who fulfill S&H requirements in a high-school or dual-enrollment setting. Kalani also organized and presented the plenary talk at the Getting Started in Digital History Workshop, moderated a panel, "Debates in Digital History”, and presented “Using GIS in the History Classroom” at the 103rd Meeting of the American Historical Association, in Atlanta, January 7-10, 2016.
- Graduate student Aaron Fountain has been awarded a 2016 UCLA Library Special Collections Short-Term Research Fellowship for his project, titled "The High School Radicals: American Teenagers and 1960s Student Activism."
- Ke-chin Hsia presented the paper, “ Disability, Internal Colonization and (De-)Nationalization Fantasy: Plans for Warrior Homestead Colony in WWI Austria,” at the 130th Meeting of the American Historical Association, in Atlanta, on January 8, 2016.
- Sarah Knott's "Narrating the Age of Revolution," is the lead article in January's William and Mary Quarterly 73 (2016), 3-36. Earlier this month, she organized a three-session experimental workshop on "Rewriting Revolutions, 1750-1850" at the American Historical Association annual meeting. From non-revolutionary era research, last month she presented "Visceral Maternities" at the Johns Hopkins University.
- Rebecca Spang’s panel at the AHA meeting in Atlanta (“Teaching the History of Money”) was briefly featured—along with some of Kalani Craig’s tweets about other sessions—in #AHA16 Day 2 Highlights. The following week, Rebecca discussed her Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution with the “French Culture” and “Approaches to Capitalism” Workshops at Stanford University. The next day, she presented “Information Theory and the French Revolution” at Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis.
- Ellen Wu has received the 2016 History book award from the Association for Asian American Studies for The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority.
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