- Peter Bailey has been awarded a residential Joint Research Fellowship to be held consecutively at the Newberry Library, Chicago, and the John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester, Spring and Summer 2016, for work on his book project Fun Factories: A Social History of the British Music Hall and Variety Stage 1840-1960.
- Graduate student Catalin Cristoloveanu has been awarded a 2016-17 Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Graduate student Sarah Foss has been awarded a 2016-17 Dissertation Year Research Fellowship from the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Ke-chin Hsia attended the conference "99 Jahre Arbeitsmarktverwaltung: Ein internationaler Vergleich" in the Austrian Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, and Consumer Protection, Vienna, and gave a talk entitled "The Growing Shadow of the State: Employment Services for Austrian Disabled Veterans from the Late Monarchy to the Early Republic" on February 25.
- On February 25, Carl Ipsen presented a preview of his forthcoming book, Fumo: Italy's Love Affair with the Cigarette, at the American Academy in Rome.
- Graduate student Samson Ndanyi presented a paper entitled "Read Africans, Decenter Oral History" at the Graduate Students in African Studies Sixth Annual Graduate Symposium held at Indiana University, Bloomington, on February 26-27, 2016.
- On February 26, Kaya Sahin gave a talk at the University of Toronto's Seminar on Ottoman and Turkish Studies, on "The Ottomans and Early Modernity: A View from the Long Sixteenth Century."
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