- Cara Caddoo is the recipient of a 2016 Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) Faculty Seed Grant Award.
- Past & Present published Colin Elliott's article entitled "Climate Change, Plague and Local Violence in Roman Egypt". The article is based upon the research Colin shared at IU in his November 2014 job talk.
- Wendy Gamber's The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Jessie Kindig has accepted a position as an associate literary agent at Roam Agency in New York, and as a visiting scholar at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. She will also be a participant in the Newberry Library gender and sexuality seminar series for 2016-2017.
- Andrew M. Koke (Ph.D. 2013) won the 2016 Nelson R. Burr Prize of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church for his article "Communication in an Anglican Empire: Edmund Gibson and His Commissaries, 1723-1748." Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 84, No. 2 (June 2015), 166-202.
- In June, Eric Robinson participated in a Zocalo Public Square panel/podcast event on "How Does Democracy Survive Demagoguery?"
- From August through December 2016, Julia Roos is a Visiting Fellow at Historisches Kolleg within Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften (Bad Homburg), the Institute of Advanced Study of Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her article "An Afro-German Microhistory: Gender, Religion, and the Challenges of Diasporic Dwelling" appeared in Central European History vol. 49, no. 2 (June 2016): 240-60.
- Mark Roseman was the invited speaker at the Holocaust Memorial Day Celebration, at IUPUI, April 18, 2016, where he gave the address "Commemoration and the meaning of the Holocaust." He was also honored to be invited once again to conduct the Silberman seminar in Holocaust education at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum June 6-17, 2016. He published "The Holocaust as a European Catastrophe" in Nicholas Doumanis (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Modern Europe 1914-1945, (Oxford University Press, July 2016), 518-536 and "National Socialism and the limits of 'modernity'" in Geoff Eley, Jennifer Jenkins and Tracy Matysik (eds.), German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar: A Contest of Futures (Bloomsbury August 2016)), 323-341.
- Kaya Sahin received funding from the NEH to organize a Summer Institute for College and University Professors. "Beyond East and West: the Early Modern World, 1400-1800" will convene in Bloomington in June 19-July 7, 2017. Sahin has been elected to the Committee on Committees of the AHA (and he wants to take this occasion to thank the colleagues who voted for him!), and made a member of the Steering Committee of the IU Renaissance Studies Program.
- Rob Schneider was a member of the jury for the defense (soutenance) of a dissertation, "Pratiques écriture et exercise du pouvoir: Du centre aux marges. Localiser Antoin Godeau (1605-1672)," by Anne-Sophie Fournier-Plamondon, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, June 9, 2016.
- Jeremy Young (Ph.D. 2013) will begin in the fall as Assistant Professor of History at Dixie State University in St. George, Utah.
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