- Wendy Gamber’s book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was featured in Marilyn Stasio's true crime book reviews in the NY Times book review last weekend.
- Jeff Gould gave a paper, "Entre el Bosque y los Arboles" (Between the Forest and the Trees) at the Workshop on Social Movements in Latin America at the Universidad San Martín in Buenos Aires. He gave another paper, "An Act of Faith: On Documentary Film and History" at the Warren Center, Harvard University. Jeff showed La Palabra en el Bosque at the Universidad San Martín and at the David Rockefeller Center at Harvard University, and he showed a rough cut of Port Triumph at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo.
- Michael Grossberg presented a paper, "Keeping It From the Kids: Censorship As Child Protection in Modern America," as part of a panel on "The Politics of Child Protection Law" at the 2016 meeting of the American Society for Legal History in Toronto, Canada on October 28th.
- Graduate student Denisa Jashari is the recipient of the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship for 2016-2017.
- Eden Medina published the essay "The Politics of Networking a Nation" in Public Books. The essay discusses the history of the Soviet Internet and the relationship of network architecture to politics. It is available at: http://www.publicbooks.org/nonfiction/the-politics-of-networking-a-nation.
- Marissa Moorman is the recipient of an Institute for Advanced Studies residential fellowship for spring 2017, to work on her book manuscript “Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931-2002,” under advance contract with Ohio University Press’s New African Histories Series.
- Mark Roseman published "'No, Herr Führer!' Jewish Revenge after the Holocaust: Between Fantasy and Reality" in Laura Jockusch, Andreas Kraft, and Kim Wünschmann (eds.), Revenge, Retribution, Reconciliation: Justice and Emotions between Conflict and Mediation. A Cross-Disciplinary Anthology (The Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jerusalem 2016), 69-90.
- Tatiana Saburova was invited and presented a paper "Two Generations": Public, Private, and Images of Generations in the Soviet Photography" at the conference "Photographing under Dictatorships of the Twentieth Century: Public Spheres and Photographic Practices" in Humboldt University, Berlin, October 27, 2016.
- On November 3, Rebecca Spang gave the annual Philip C.F. Bankwitz Lecture at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut). She also met with thesis-writing History majors to talk with them about their research.
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