- Anna Arays, whose MA Essay on early modern Russian print culture in Muscovy, supervised by Padraic Kenney and Ben Eklof, subsequently won the annual Armstrong Prize for best work in Slavic studies in any discipline, has been appointed Librarian for Slavic and East European Studies at Yale University. Another recent REEI MA who won the Armstrong Prize the following year and will continue with Russian History is Geoffrey Durham, accepted into the doctoral program at University of Pennsylvania.
- Deborah Deliyannis is the recipient of an Institute for Advanced Study Individual Research Award for her project “Fifty Early Medieval Things: Materials of Culture Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages,” co-written with Paolo Squatriti and Hendrik Dey.
- Graduate student Aimee Dobbs presented her dissertation chapter entitled ““Making” Legible & Loyal Citizens: Deliberations among Russian Bureaucrats about Schooling All-Russia’s Muslims” at the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center Graduate Brown Bag Series here at IU on April 12, 2016.
- Edward Lazzerini is recipient of a 2016 NEH grant through its Digital Start-Up Program for his project "Historical Demography and Population Behavior among Muslims in Russian Central Eurasia, 1828-1918: The Case of Kazan City.”
- Julia Roos received an Individual Research Award by the Institute for Advanced Study, IU Bloomington, for her project, German Racial Regimes in the Twentieth Century: An Afro-German Microhistory.