- Graduate student Andrew Jacobs received an Advanced Research Fellowship from American Councils (Title VIII funding from the State Department) for his dissertation research in Moscow.
- Padraic Kenney presented a paper entitled “`How to Free Your Prisoner’: Techniques of International Advocacy from the ICPP to Amnesty International,” at the AHA in Denver. Padraic published an essay entitled "Po co historykom Polska" ("What use to historians is Poland?") in Kultura Liberalna 413 (49), December 2016.
- Lara Kriegel’s article, “The Transforming Power of the Victoria Cross,” just appeared in SEL: Studies in English Literature (59.4). Last month, she gave the paper, “The Death – and Life – of Florence Nightingale,” at the annual meeting of the North American Victorian Studies Association.
- Jim Madison was honored in December for his work on the state's Bicentennial Commission with the Sagamore of the Wabash award. This honorary award is one of the highest awards bestowed by the governor, and was created by the State of Indiana in the 1940's. It is given to those who rendered distinguished service to the state or to the governor, as well as to those who have contributed greatly to Hoosier heritage.
- Amrita Myers has been selected to receive the Building Bridges Award in the faculty category from the Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs. All recipients will be honored at the MLK Jr. Celebration Leadership Breakfast on Monday, January 16.
- Graduate student Samson Ndanyi’s essay, "'God Was With US:' Child Labor in Colonial Kenya, 1922-1950s," is published in Journal of Retracing Africa (JORA): Vol. 3, Issue 1 (2016): 1-20. http://encompass.eku.edu/jora/
- Micol Seigel received a CAHI workshop grant for a conference this spring, "En/Counternarratives, a Critical Ethnic Studies Symposium," to be organized with a group of colleagues in English, Folklore & Ethnomusicology, American Studies, and Gender Studies.
- Ellen Wu's essay "The Invention of the Model Minority" has just been published in The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies, ed. Cindy I-Fen Cheng. In November, Ellen spoke on "How Asians Became America's 'Model Minority'" at both IUPUI's Multicultural Center and Emory University's James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference. She has also received a CAHI Research Travel Grant to travel to Honolulu for her project "Overrepresented: Asian Americans in the Age of Affirmative Action."
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