- PhD candidate Ruth Almy's article "'More Hateful because of its Hypocrisy': Indians, Britain and Canadian Law in the Komagata Maru Incident of 1914" has been published in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2018.1438964)
- Ben Eklof has been named a Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar at the Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities under the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. The appointment is for three years and is renewable, (providing travel, lodgings and visa support for up to three months each year). On Friday Eklof gave a paper on his recollections of working as a consultant to the historian Edward Dneprov during the latter's eventful term as reformist Minister of Education in the era of Perestroika in Russia and its immediate aftermath (1990-1992). The paper was delivered to a conference on "Educational Development: the Quality of Educational Outcomes and Reforms Promoting Change" at the Presidential Academy in Moscow.
- Ke-chin Hsia presented the paper "Etatization, Democratization, and the First World War: Providing for Disabled Veterans in Austria" at the workshop The Quest for Welfare and Democracy: Voluntary Associations, Families and the State, 1880s to the Present at European University Institute, Florence, Italy, on February 7.
- Scott O'Bryan has received a New Frontiers Experimentation Fellowship for his new project, "Flora japonica: Horticulture, the Japan Plant Trade, and Global Environmental History."
- Sarah Rowley (Ph.D. 2015) has accepted a tenure-track position at DePauw University.
- Kaya Sahin was a participant at a workshop on "Between Habsburg and Ottoman Empires: Sovereign Forms of Migration," organized by USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, held at the Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA. There, he presented and discussed his recent work on Ottoman imperial ceremonies.
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