- Maria Bucur’s essay on “Eugenics” has just appeared as part of the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism.
- Graduate student Sarah Foss has received a College Arts & Humanities Institute Graduate Conference Travel Award to present at the 63rd Annual Conference of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies.
- Graduate student Aaron Fountain published an opinion piece in Al Jazeera America on the forgotten history of Latino anti-police brutality activism and Latino riots: “Stop Ignoring the Police Killings of Latinos” http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2016/2/stop-ignoring-the-police-killings-of-latinos.html
- Graduate student Andrew Jacobs is the recipient of an REEI Mellon Endowment Student Grant-in-Aid of Research to support his travel to New York City, where he will conduct dissertation research on the experience and impact of American visitors to the USSR in the post-Stalin years.
- Hiroaki Kuromiya is the recipient of an REEI Mellon Endowment International Conference Travel Grant to support his travel to Moscow where he will deliver the keynote address at the Conference on Roman Kim, under the auspices of the Far East Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
- Marissa Moorman was interviewed on RTP (Portuguese radio) by Carla Henriques on the program Grande Plano about three films by Angolan filmmaker Ruy Duarte de Carvalho that she will introduce February 10 at the Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon. The interview is here: http://www.rtp.pt/play/p596/e223411/grande-plano