- Kalani Craig has had an article, "Analog Tools in Digital History Classrooms: An Activity-Theory Case Study of Learning Opportunities in Digital Humanities", published in the January issue of the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, available at at http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol11/iss1/7/
- History faculty Nick Cullather, Deborah Deliyannis, Wendy Gamber, John Hanson, Jacob Lee, Ed Linenthal, Jim Madison, Eric Sandweiss, and Micol Seigel have all been selected as teachers for this year's IU Mini University in June.
- Jeff Gould gave a talk "An Act of Faith: Documentary Film and History", and presented his film La Palabra en el Bosque at UC Irvine.
- Graduate student Stephanie Huezo has been awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2017-18.
- Graduate student Maxwell Johnson has been awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2017-18.
- As President of the association, Krista Maglen organized the annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Studies Association of North America, which was held at the Embassy of Australian in Washington DC, February 22-24. Guest speakers included Ambassador The Honourable Joe Hockey, President Michael McRobbie, and Visiting Harvard Chair of Australian Studies, Professor Penny Russell. The conference included the exhibition "No Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Contemporary Abstract Painting."
- Jason McGraw's translation of the poem "Serenata" by Afro-Colombian poet Candelario Obeso (1849-1884) was published in The Columbia Reader (Duke University Press, 2017).
- Marissa Moorman participated in the Comparative Workshop in Liberation Radios in Southern Africa, 1960s-1990s at the University of the Witwatersrand, February 17-19, 2017. She gave a paper entitled "Angola's guerilla radios: popular memory and perils of technology."
- Graduate student Leone Musgrave presented the paper "The Non-Human, the Anthropogenic, and the Autogenic in a Moment of Human Crisis: The North Caucasus Environment in Revolution and Civil War," at All things Living and Not: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Non-Anthropocentric Perspectives in Slavic Studies held at Columbia University February 23-25, 2017.