- Barbara C. Allen, 2001 IU Ph.D. and Associate Professor of History at La Salle University, has published Leaflets of the Russian Revolution: Socialist Organizing in 1917(Haymarket Books, 2018). In it, she selects and introduces the pamphlets and other agitational material that give life to the debates, disagreements and perspectives that animated the masses during the revolution. More information found here.
- Peter Bailey delivered his piano-added presentation ‘The Other Captain Swing: Eric Hobsbawm, Jazz and the English’ to the Modern Cultural History Seminar, University of Cambridge, Bateman Auditorium, October 11th.
- Maria Bucur is the guest editor of the October 2018 issue of European History Quarterly, with an issue dedicated to “Constructing the Modern State in the Balkans.” In addition to the introduction to the issue, she has published “To Have and to Hold: Gender Regimes and Property Rights in the Romanian Principalities before World War I.” The special issue includes an article by alumna Alex Tipei, with “Audience Matters: ‘Civilization-Speak,’ Educational Discourses, and Balkan Nationalism, 1800-1840.”
- >Jeff Gould presented his documentary Puerto el Triunfo at the Museo Nacional in Montevideo and at the Universidad de San Martín and the Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires.
- Peter Guardino’s book, The Dead March: A History of the Mexican American War (Harvard University Press, 2017) was awarded the Western History Association’s Robert M. Utley Prize for the best book published on the military history of the frontier and western North America from prehistory through the twentieth century. Peter was unable to attend the Western History Association due to a previous commitment, so our former colleague Jacob Lee attended the award ceremony and accepted the award.
- On October 20, Peter Guardino gave the paper “La nueva historia militar y la Guerra con los Estados Unidos” at the XV Reunión Internacional de Historiadores de México, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico. While he was in Guadalajara Peter had lunch with Jeff Gould, who is there on a residential fellowship. Jeff sends his regards, and of course is eager to rejoin us in January and experience our new building firsthand.
- Danny James edited together with Kevin Coleman (Ph.D 2013) and Jayeeta Sharma the new issue of Radical History Review on “Photography and Work”.
- Pedro Machado presented a paper, “Repositions: Exploring Portuguese Slave Trades in the Indian Ocean,” at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, as part of the Towards an Indian Ocean and Maritime Asia Slave Trade Database Workshop, 27-28 September 2018. He also gave a talk at the European University Institute, Florence, on 25 October 2018 entitled “Littoral Luminescence: Pearls, Shell and the Worlds of the Early Modern.”
- Marissa Moorman was one of three experts interviewed by Imran Garda on The Newsmakers TRTWorld show on October 30, 2018. The panelists and host discussed the deportation of 300,000 Congolese from Angola.
- On October 29, Kaya Sahin gave a talk at a workshop on two recent books by Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Europe’s India, and Empires between Islam and Christianity, 1500-1800. The workshop was organized by UCLA’s Center for India and South Asia.
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