- Ben Eklof's and Tatiana Saburova's co-authored book, A Generation of Revolutionaries: Nikolai Charushin and Russian Populism from the Great Reforms to Perestroika was published last week by Indiana University Press. The original and considerably different Russian-language version published in 2016 recently received highly favorable reviews in the American Historical Review and Russian Review. Eklof and Saburova were also the organizers of and contributors to an international conference including participants from the USA and Canada, Italy, Sweden, Germany and Russia on "Seeing like a State? Innovative Approaches to the Study of the History of Russian Education" held in Berlin, October 14-15. Prior to this, Eklof also attended a conference on October 12-13 in Uppsala, Sweden, "School Acts: The Role of the State in Mass Education in the Long Nineteenth Century." His contribution was entitled "From the Top Down? Two Landmark Statutes (1864 and 1908) and Society's Role in Educational Expansion in Imperial Russia." Eklof has received a grant to be a Visiting Senior Scholar at the Institute of Education of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow in January and February; Saburova will be a Visiting Scholar at the University of Alberta in Edmonton from November until July of 2018.
- Graduate student Jacob Hagstrom is the recipient of a CAHI Graduate Research Travel Award.
- Andrew M. Koke (PhD, 2013) had a recent essay appear in the October issue of Perspectives on History, Virtual Reality and the Classroom: How Historians Can Respond.
- Marissa Moorman's article "Radio Remediated: Sissako's Life of Earth and Sembene's Moolaade" was just published in Cinema Journal 57(1), 2017: 94-116.
- Graduate Student Samson Ndanyi's article, "Kenya's Supreme Court Justices Willing to Pay the Ultimate Price for Kenya and Africa," is published in Africa Cradle, www.africacradle.com . The article examines the on-going political/judicial mess in Kenya and its implication for Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Eric Robinson presented the paper "Spartan Reputation, Spartan Strategy: Leonidas at Thermopylae" at the annual meeting of the Greek History and Theory Group at Ohio State University, October 21-22, in Columbus, Ohio.
- Mark Roseman gave the lecture "The League and the Devil. A Hidden History of Opposition and Rescue" as the annual Toby and Saul Reichert Holocaust Lecturer, at the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, October 18, 2017.
- Ralph Walter, University alumnus and friend of the department, gave a paper on “British By-elections during the Great War” at the University of Oxford on October 17. The full analysis will be published in “Parliamentary History” next year.
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