- The Kinsey Institute: The First 70 Years was just released by IU Press. The authors are Judith A. Allen, Hallimeda E. Allinson, Andrew Clark-Huckstep, Brandon J. Hill, Stephanie A. Sanders, and Liana Zhou.
- The grand opening of a historical exhibit celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Kinsey Institute will take place Saturday, September 16 from noon-6:00 pm at the Kinsey Institute. Judith Allen and graduate students Drew Clark-Huckstep and Hallimeda Allinson provided the historical content.
- Graduate student Katy Doll received a Silas Palmer Research Fellowship from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University.
- Wendy Gamber’s The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age (John Hopkins University Press) has been issued in paperback.
- Alex Lichtenstein's collaboration with his brother, photojournalist Andrew Lichtenstein, has just been released by West Virginia University Press. The book, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of American Memory, contains photographs of historical sites that pose unsettling questions about the contested memory of traumatic episodes from the nation's past. It includes a foreword by Ed Linenthal, and essays by ten well-known historians, including Christina Snyder.
- Jerome McDonnell, host of Worldview, on Chicago's NPR affiliate WBEZ interviewed Marissa Moorman about the Angolan elections held last week. The interview, from Friday August 25, 2017, is here.
- Michelle Moyd presented "Humanitarian Histories in Africa's First World War" to the History Department and African Studies Program at the University of Basel, Switzerland in late May. In June, she participated in the African Artistic Practices and New Media: Intersections, Volatilities, Futures Symposium, hosted at the IU Gateway in Berlin, with participants from IU, Humboldt University, and Bayreuth University. Her chapter "Gender and Violence" appeared in Gender and the Great War, edited by Susan Grayzel and Tammy Proctor and published by Oxford University Press. In addition, her short essay "Resistance and Rebellion (Africa)" was published in 1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War. She also co-authored (with Jennifer Evans and Yuliya Komska) "US history is a Pandora's box. There has never been a better time to open it," which appeared in The Guardian on August 8, 2017. Michelle also participated in the inaugural Primary Source Workshop at IU Libraries in August.
- Graduate student Samson Ndanyi will present his original research paper, "This Title to Include the Words Mau Mau: Visualizing Mau Mau War in Colonial Kenya, 1953-1960," at the 60th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, November 16-18, Illinois.
- On August 22, the Carnegie Moscow Center published graduate student Stepan Serdiukov’s piece on the crisis in Charlottesville and the meaning of the battle over Confederate public legacy in the United States. The piece is in Russian, and the title is translated as “The end of optimism on race; why the legacy of the American South has become a main problem of the United States.” http://carnegie.ru/commentary/72866
- Carl Suddler (PhD 2015) began a tenure-track Assistant Professor position this fall in the Department of History at Florida Atlantic University.
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