- Arlene Diaz has received a Consultation Grant from IU's Institute for Advanced Study.
- Konstantin Dierks presented a paper "Globalization of the United States, Historical GIS, and the Entangling of History" at the "Entangled Histories: Making New Connections in Early America, c. 1750-1850" conference held at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies in Philadelphia, April 5-7, 2018.
- Kon Dierks and Lara Kriegel have received grants from the Jack and Julia Wickes Fund for the Study of War and Society, Kon, for his project, "Overseas U.S. Navy Personnel, 1789-1861," and Lara, for "The Reason Why: The Crimean War in British Public Memory."
- Colin Elliott delivered a research talk at the Freie Universität Berlin entitled 'Non-Neutral Money and Systemic Inequality in the Early Principate'. The talk was part of the two-day 'Capital in Classical Antiquity' research workshop which was funded by the Exzellenzcluster Topoi research network.
- On April 9 Peter Guardino gave the talk "By Any Means Possible: Urban Resistance to the 1847 American Occupation of Mexico City" at Rutgers University, and on April 10 he gave the talk "Between Savage Tribes: Frontier Warfare, Vigilantism, and Atrocities against Mexican Civilians during the Mexican-America War" at Columbia University. Stellar IU undergrad alum and current Columbia American Studies grad student Grace Shen attended the Columbia talk. She told Peter that she misses the IU History department and she tries to see any talk any of us give at Columbia.
- Carl Ipsen has signed a three-year commitment to serve as director of the IU Food Institute. At the same time he is stepping down as director of Collins Living-Learning Center after 7 years in that position.
- Sarah Knott has received an Individual Research Award from IU's Institute for Advanced Study.
- Pedro Machado presented a paper, "Materializing Exchange: On India/Africa Entanglements," at the conference, Africa-India: Encounters, Episodes, Entanglements, that took place on 2 - 3 April at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Center, Duke University.
- Marissa Moorman presented a keynote address "Política e cultura na independência de Angola" (Politics and culture in Angola Independence) at the I Seminário Internacional de Estudos Africanos e Diaspóricos: Estado, Nação e Cultura para além Fronteras at Universidade Internacional de Integração da Lusofonia Afro-brasileira (UNILAB) Campus de Liberdade, Redenção, Brazil, 5-7 April 2018.
- Graduate student Samson Ndanyi’s essay, "The Tale of Two Presidents," is published in Africa is a Country. The essay examines the ongoing political crisis in Kenya. https://africasacountry.com/2018/04/the-tale-of-two-presidents
- Congratulations to Roberta Pergher and Jonathan Schlesinger, who have been awarded tenure, and John Hanson, Micol Seigel, and Leah Shopkow, who have been promoted to Full Professor.
- Jonathan Schlesinger presented "Five Castaways and a Global Age Writ Small" at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for East Asian Studies.
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