- Maria Bucur has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the National School for Political Science and Public Administration in Bucharest, Romania. The award ceremony will take place in May 2018.
- Graduate student Stephanie Huezo was awarded the 2018-19 President’s Diversity Dissertation Fellowship, and is also a recipient of the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.
- Pedro Machado has published an edited volume, Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); and "Cloth's Many Waterways: Indian Ocean Textile and the Deep Histories of Exchange," in Prita Meier and Allyson Purpura (eds.), World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean (University of Washington Press, 2018). He also presented two papers, the first, "Shadow Networks: Labour, Capital and Pearling in the Indian Ocean," on 1 March at the Global History & Culture Centre; and Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre, University of Warwick. And the second,"(Indian) Ocean Thinking and the Charting of New Geographies," on 20 March at the Southern Indian Ocean Research Workshop, Maputo.
- Jason McGraw published a post, "Race, or the Last Colonial Struggle in Latin America," on the Age of Revolutions blog as part of their current "Race and Revolution" series. The post can be read here: https://ageofrevolutions.com/2018/03/12/race-or-the-last-colonial-struggle-in-latin-america/
- Scott O’Bryan has been accepted as a Visiting Scholar Fellow at the School of History, Australian National University, Canberra for fall 2018. He has also been accepted as a Visiting Research Associate with the Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan during their summer term 2018.
- Mark Roseman published "German History Writing and the Holocaust" in Central European History Volume 51 (2018) Number 1, pp.96-102.
- Jonathan Schlesinger presented "Taking Chinese Environmental History to Tusk: Rethinking Ivory and Its Early Modern History," at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Washington DC.
- On March 24, Carl Weinberg delivered a paper entitled "Adnan Oktar's Turkish Creationism as a Mirror on American Antievolutionism," on a panel on creationism at the annual meeting of the Ohio Academy of History.
- Noam Zadoff is a finalist for the 2018 Young Scholar Leadership Award of the Association for Israel Studies and the Israel Institute. Noam received a fellowship from the Israel Institute for the academic year 2018-2019, and will be teaching and researching in Munich.
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