- Graduate student Khaled Esseissah has received a graduate student travel award from IU’s Islamic Studies Program for his presentation of a paper at the 2015 African Studies Association conference.
- Jeff Gould was offered a fellowship at the Charles Warren Center of Harvard University.
- Congratulations to graduate student Stephanie Huezo, who is a recipient of the prestigious John H. Edwards Fellowship for 2016-17. Stephanie also won the 2015-16 Won-Joon Yoon Scholarship last month. The scholarship was established to honor Won-Joon Yoon, a young and bright Korean graduate student who was a victim of extremist violence. The scholarship is awarded to Indiana University students whose academic, professional and personal accomplishments and goals exhibit tolerance, understanding and commitment to service.
- Carl Ipsen and Michelle Moyd are winners in this year’s Trustees’ Teaching Awards in History. Carl Weinberg, History Adjunct Associate Professor and College Senior Lecturer, is also the recipient of the Trustees Teaching Award for his outstanding work in History and the PACE program.
- Graduate student Denisa Jashari has been awarded a Travel Award from the IU Graduate and Professional Student Government.
- Ed Linenthal’s chapter “Civic Engagement,” appears in A Thinking Person’s Guide to America’s National Parks (George Braziller, 2016), and his brief “Epilogue” for the Social Science Quarterly, “Terror, Trauma, Memory: Special Issue Dedicated to the Oklahoma City Bombing,” appears in vol. 97, 1 (March 2016). On March 15, 2016 he spoke at the History Workshop at the University of Delaware, “And Into the Black Hole of Journal Evaluation Goes My Manuscript: Demystifying the Process,” and delivered the Harrington History Lecture, “Violence and the American Landscape.” On March 29, 2016, he delivered a lecture at the University of Richmond, “The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory.”
- Eden Medina published the article, “Science and Harm in Human Rights Cases: Preventing the Revictimization of Families of the Disappeared,” Yale Law Journal Forum, 125 (2016): 331-342.
- At the annual Renaissance Society of America meeting in Boston, between March 31st and April 2nd, Kaya Sahin attended the Discipline Representatives Meeting as the elected discipline representative for the Islamic World, organized a panel on "Style, Content and Audience in Early Modern Islamic Political Traditions," chaired a panel on "Islamicate Occultism: Islamic Book Cultures," and acted as chair and discussant at a roundtable on "Reconsidering the Global Renaissance."
- Tatiana Saburova presented a paper at the Midwestern Russian Historians' Workshop, held at Miami University in Oxford Ohio on March 18-19, titled: "Mix and Stir: Life Stories, Liberalism and the History of Russia in the Writings of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams." (Tyrkova-Williams was a journalist, feminist, and the only woman on the executive board of the oppositionist Kadet Party in early twentieth century Russia. Later in life she married the prominent British journalist Harold Williams, who wrote for the Times, Morning Post and other newspapers on Russia. Ben Eklof served as chair of a different panel at the same session.
- Fei-Hsien Wang presented her paper “A Bookseller’s Tale of Two Cities: Piracy, Smuggling, and Treason across the Taiwan Straits” in the panel “Legal Shades of Grey: Transnational Commerce in Early Communist China,” on April 1st, at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Seattle.
- Carl Weinberg has received a course development grant from the College for a course entitled “Leadership, Social Movements, and Politics in Modern America."
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