- Judith Allen presented the paper, “Illicit Abortion and Victorian Sexual Histories” at the 31st Annual Conference for Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies [INCS], Natural and Unnatural Histories, March 10-13, 2016, Asheville, NC. Hosted by Appalachian State University.
- On March 5, Maria Bucur presented the paper "Women and the Peace Movement during the Cold War: International Encounters,” at the Ohio State University workshop Iron Curtain Crossings: Eastern Europe and the Global Cold War.
- Ben Eklof is the recipient of an REEI Summer Faculty Research Fellowship for his research project “Nikolai Charushin and Populist Networks in Modern Russia (1851-1937).”
- Jeff Gould’s book, Desencuentros y Desafíos: Ensayos Sobre la Historia Contemporánea Centroaméricana, [Failed Encounters, Misunderstandings and Challenges: Essays on Central American Contemporary History] was just published by the Centro de Investigaciones de América Central. There was a book presentation at the Universidad de Costa Rica.
- Edward Lazzerini is recipient of a 2016 IU New Frontiers grant for his project “No Laughing Matter? The Satirical Cartoons from the Azerbaijani Periodical Molla Nǝsreddin, 1906-1918.”
- Over spring break, Alex Lichtenstein participated in several workshops. With Ben Robinson, he co-organized a workshop at IU's Europe Gateway in Berlin, on "Labor, Migration, and the State: Past, Present, Future." He then proceeded to Delhi, India, where he participated in an IU Gateway workshop on "Passive Resistance," and spoke about the South African Passive Resistance Campaign of 1946. Finally, he presented a paper at the XIth Annual Meeting of the Association of Indian Labor Historians. Alex has also just received an Ostrom Workshop research award to support his work on the history of industrial relations under South African apartheid.
- Tatiana Saburova gave a talk "Photographing People and Landscape: Political Exiles and Visual Representations of Siberia in Late Imperial Russia" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on March 10.
- Rebecca Spang is the recipient of the 2016 Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2015.)
- Graduate student Paula Tarankow is the recipient of a research grant from the Culture & Animals Foundation, an organization dedicated to advancing animal advocacy through intellectual and artistic expression, for her dissertation project “Searching for Humanity: The Problem of Animal Cruelty in the Post–Civil War South.”
- On March 5, graduate student Alex Tipei presented "A New Kind of Conquest: French Liberals, Soft Power, and Post-Napoleonic Europe" at the Society for French Historical Studies Conference in Nashville, TN. On March 11, Alex was part of a panel that participated via Skype at Drew University's Crossroads: The Future of History Graduate Education Conference. Her co-panelists were instructors and students from the Indiana Women's Prison post-graduate (M.A.) program.
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