- Arlene Díaz presented a paper entitled “Cuban Filibustering Expeditions and the Development of U.S. Foreign Policy,1895-1898,” at the international conference of the Asociación Mexicana de Estudios del Caribe held in Veracruz, Mexico, on April 15, 2016.
- On Saturday, April 16th, Konstantin Dierks gave a paper entitled "Americans Abroad Before 1865" at the "Americans Overseas: The United States in the World since 1865" conference at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. On Friday, April 1st, he commented on "The Age of Revolutions" panel at the "A New Materialism? Rethinking the History of Global Capitalism at the Nexus of Culture and Political Economy" symposium at the University of Michigan.
- Ben Eklof has received a CAHI Research Travel Grant for his travel to New York, Moscow and St. Petersburg for his project “Friendship, Family and Revolution: Nikolai Charushin and Populist Networks in Modern Russia (1851-1937).”
- Colin Elliott received a course development grant from the College for a course on leadership and leadership ethics in Classical Antiquity.
- Graduate student Charlene Fletcher-Brown has received a fellowship from the Kentucky Historical Society to conduct research for two weeks at their campus in Frankfort, Kentucky. Her topic is “Confined Femininity: Race, Gender and Incarceration in Kentucky, 1865-1940.
- Graduate student Denisa Jashari is the recipient of a CAHI Graduate Research Travel Award.
- Indiana University Press has just published a new book byAlex Lichtenstein (and Rick Halpern), Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid. Alex has been awarded a Hutton Honors College course development grant for his course proposal “The Global Anti-Apartheid Movement.”
- Krista Maglen was awarded a CAHI Research Travel Grant to undertake research in Australiafor her “Dangerous Animals” project.
- Michelle Moyd has been awarded a CAHI Research Travel Grant to support her new monograph project,“Soldiering On: Race, Labor and Armies of Empire in the United States and Africa, 1850-1918.”She also attended the Society for Military History’s annualconference in Ottawa, Canada from April 15-17, where she participated in the roundtable“Expanding the Boundaries: Africa and Military History.” She also chaired and commented on the panel“GoingOut and Coming Back: Training, Employing, and Caring for Expeditionary African Soldiers, 1940-1990.” On March 30, she participated in the roundtable “The State of Democracy and Human Rights in the World,” the opening event of the School of Global and International Studies conference “America’s Role in the World: Issues Facing the Next President.”
- Julia Roos received a College Arts & Humanities Institute Research Travel Grant for her project, “German Racial Regimes in the Twentieth Century: An Afro-German Microhistory.” Last week, she presented the paper, “Beyond the Insider/Outsider Binary: An Afro-German Microhistory of Religion, Family, and National Belonging,” at the conference “Navigating Diversity: Narratives, Practices, and Politics in German-Speaking Europe from 1500 to the Present,” Université de Montréal and Université de Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada, April 13-15, 2016.
- Graduate student Jordan Taylor is the recipient of a CAHI Graduate Conference Travel Award, to present at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic’s 2016 meeting.
- On April 14th, graduate student Alex Tipei was invited to give a talk, "A Tale of Two Debts: Modern Greece and Europe" at the Elmhurst Public Library in Elmhurst, Illinois.
- Mirjam Zadoff and Alex Lichtenstein are the recipients of a CAHI Conference Grant to help fund a workshop on “Red Biography: The Significance of Communist Life-Histories in Global Perspective.”
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