- Peter Bailey gave the keynote address 'Humor as Social Text' at 'The Other Stage', The First International Workshop on the History of Variety in Europe, Humboldt University, Berlin, June 17-18.
- From May 25-29, Patrick Gilner participated in the Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. He presented a pre-circulated paper titled, "We're Going to Hang the Kaiser Under the Linden Tree": Justice and Early Negotiation in War Crimes Policy after World War I. He also served as commentator for a panel on postwar commodity production in East and West Germany.
- Graduate student Andrew Jacobs has been awarded a research and travel grant from New York University's Center for the Cold War and the United States.
- Graduate student Amanda Koch is the recipient of the 2016 Women's Philanthropy Institute Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. The award will help her complete her dissertation on the history of gospel rescue missions and the women who helped create them. A link to the fellowship's press release can be found here
- Lara Kriegel's paper was chosen from those given at the 2015 meeting of the North American Victorian Studies Association to appear in the NAVSA Special Issue of Victorian Studies. "Living Links to History, or, Victorian Veterans in the Twentieth-Century World" has been published in Victorian Studies 58.2. Lara's article, "On the Death - and Life - of Florence Nightingale, August 1910," is now available as part of the refereed digital project, BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History (branchcollective.org). Her essay, "The Strange Career of Fair Play," published online in 2015, has appeared in print in the Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture (2016).
- Eden Medina's co-edited volume Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology and Society in Latin America received the 2016 Amsterdamska Award from the European Society for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). The award recognizes "a significant creative collaboration in an edited book or special issue in the broad field of science and technology studies" that makes a "substantive contribution to the field in terms of originality or impact."
- Graduate student Benjamin Stellwagen is the new principal at Trinity Lutheran High School in Seymour, IN. Trinity has sent a number of students to IUB and currently enrolls about 150 students from Jackson, Bartholomew, Brown, Jennings, Scott, and Lawrence counties. www.trinitycougars.org
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