- Graduate Student Khaled Esseissah presented a paper on "The Ulama of Bilad Shinqiti (Mauritania) and their Roles in Disseminating Islamic Learning outside Africa" at the Conference of Texts, Knowledge, and Practice: The Meaning of Scholarship in Muslim Africa on February 16-18, 2017 at Harvard University in Boston.
- Graduate student Alaina Roberts will be the 2017-2018 George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center Postdoctoral Fellow at The Pennsylvania State University.
- Mark Roseman published "Das Undenkbare denken" (Thinking the unthinkable), in Zeit Geschichte (2017) (the history magazine of the German newspaper Die Zeit), issue 1, pp,14-19.
- Rebecca Spang did a thirty-minute interview with the Majority Report's Sam Seder about money, revolutions, civil wars, and the gold standard. Available here