- John "Jay" Thorndike Alexander (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1966) passed away on December 6, 2018 at age 78 in Lawrence, Kansas. Jay, well known for his many scholarly works including his biography of Catherine the Great, received the Richard Stites Senior Scholar Award from SCSS in 2001.
- Colin Elliott has been selected to be the inaugural participant in the College’s faculty research exchange with the University of Manchester’s Faculty of Humanities. Colin will spend the summer researching at Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures on his next project (The Antonine Turn: Ecology, Disease and the Origins of the Late Antique Economy).
- Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia, edited by our own Ph.D. Xin Fan and Almut-Barbara Renger, has just been published by Brill.
- Peter Guardino’s book The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War (Harvard University Press, 2017) was awarded the Bolton-Johnson Prize for the best English-language book on any aspect of Latin American history. Over sixty books were nominated for this award.
- Ph.D. student Asher Lubotzky published "'Ja, es musste sein!': German Settler Perceptions of Violence during the Herero and Nama War (1904-1907)," in Journal of Namibian Studies 24 (December 2018), pp. 7-31.
- Alaina Roberts (Ph.D. 2017) has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Rebecca Spang was an invited participant in the public conference “Money as a Democratic Medium” held at Harvard Law School, Dec. 14-15th. She presented as part of the plenary roundtable on “Financialization and Inequality” along with Rana Foroohar (Financial Times), Gerald Epstein (Economics, University of Massachusetts), Sandy Brian Hager (International Politics, City University of London), and Natascha van der Zwan (Public Administration, University of Leiden).
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