- Kevin Coleman (PhD 2012) has published A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-forging of a Banana Republic (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016).
- Susan Ferentinos’ book, Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites, has received the 2016 Book Award from the National Council on Public History, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of public history. Susan is an alum of the department (PhD, 2005) and currently advises the history department on career preparation and programming, among other consulting work. Her clients include the American Association for State and Local History, the Indiana Historical Society, and the National Park Service. In addition, Susan recently participated in an invitational scholars’ summit convened by the Congressional Committee to Study the Potential for a National Women’s History Museum.
- Colin Johnson and co-editors Mary Gray (Media School) and Brian Gilley (Anthropology) have published Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies (New York: New York University Press, 2016). The volume, which includes essays by a number of IUB alums, including IUB History PhD Robin Henry, is the product of major conference by the same name that took place on IUB’s campus back in 2010.
- Graduate student Amanda Koch presented a paper entitled “Same Goals, Different Paths: The Wheeler City Rescue Mission and the Indianapolis Community Fund in the Mid-Twentieth Century” at the Hoosier Philanthropy Conference held in Indianapolis on February 18–19, 2016.
- Phyllis Martin has received a Retired Faculty Grant-in-Aid of Research in support of her research on "A Victorian Scot: Family, Work, and Community in the Life of James Wright (1833-1908)." She will be traveling to Scotland this summer to continue work in local archives and museums and attend meetings of local history societies. This study is part of a larger project on the history of her family in nineteenth century Central Scotland.
- Rob Schneider presented a paper on “Contre la République des Lettres: Sociabilité intellectuelle et littéraire à Paris à l’époque de Richelieu,” at the seminar of the Groupe de recherches interdisciplinaire sur l’histoire du littéraire in Paris on February 22, 2016. He is currently a professeur invité at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
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