- Congratulations to Cara Caddoo, Kalani Craig, and Jason McGraw, recipients of the 2018 Trustees Teaching Award.
- Graduate student Casey Korducki was recently awarded the 2018 Tinker Field Research Grant from CLACS.
- Graduate student Szabolcs Laszlo received notification that his essay, "Performing for the Capitalists: Cold War Cultural Diplomacy Experienced by Hungarian and Romanian Writers at the Iowa International Writing Program," received second place for the Brantlinger-Naremore Essay Prize conferred by the Cultural Studies Program. The prize includes a $300 award.
- Graduate student Samson Ndanyi’s essay, "'Immoral in Dress': Children, Clothes, and Cinema in Colonial Kenya," has been published in the Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies 1, no. 3, (Dec. 2017): 24-40.
- Kaya Sahin was a presenter at the "Assessing the Islamic Past: Historical and Philosophical Interventions" conference held at Brown University. There, he presented his paper, "To Observe, to Record, to Memorialize (ca. 1582): Depicting the Circumcision of an Ottoman Prince." An article he wrote on another circumcision celebration was recently published as "Staging an Empire: An Ottoman Circumcision Ceremony as Cultural Performance," American Historical Review 123, 2 (April 2018): 463-492.
- Graduate student Amanda Waterhouse has received two dissertation grants for next year: the Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) -- to defray travel costs for dissertation research by graduate students working on dissertations dealing with some aspect of U.S. foreign relations history, and the Rockefeller Archive Center Research stipend -- to support travel for research conducted at the Rockefeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
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