- Graduate student Miles Blizard presented "Fashioning Dominican auctoritas: Rewriting Bede's Historia ecclesiastica in a mid-thirteenth century exempla collection" at Auctoritas: 9th Annual Medievalists at Penn Graduate Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, on March 17. He also presented "Humbert of Romans and the utilitas of Early Christian History" at The Twenty-Ninth Annual Spring Symposium of the Medieval Studies Institute of Indiana University: Uses of the Past: Cultural Memory in and of the Middle Ages, Indiana University, Bloomington, March 3-4th, 2017
- Graduate student Amanda Lanzillo has been awarded a 2017-18 Fulbright fellowship to pursue her dissertation research in India.
- Graduate student Natalie Levin has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship to conduct research in Madrid (Spain) for the 2017-18 academic year.
- Alex Lichtenstein will be the inaugural director of the Global Living Learning Community at IU, beginning in fall 2017.
- Kaya Sahin has been awarded a fellowship from the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, to pursue his research on Ottoman public ceremonies in the sixteenth century. He will spend fall 2017 in South Bend, Indiana.
- Mirjam Zadoff and Noam Zadoff received a CAHI Global Gateway Grant for organizing the conference: After the Election: Jewish Life and Antisemitism in the US, to take place in Berlin in June. The conference is in cooperation with the Center for the Research of Antisemitism at the Technical University, Berlin.
- Student and faculty judges are still needed for National History Day in Indiana (hosted by the Indiana Historical Society), on Saturday, April 1, 2017, 8-1:30 pm, Brown County High School in Nashville, Indiana. Training, breakfast, and lunch provided. Please sign up to judge at this link