- Cynthia Bannon presented “Legal Humor and Republican Political Culture (Cic. De Orat. 2.284)” at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Diego on 4 January 2019.
- Samson Ndanyi (Ph.D. 2018) has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of African History at Rhodes College.
- At the 2019 Modern Language Association convention, Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures received the 2018 “Best New Journal” award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ). It also was named “Journal of the Month” in February 2018 by Project MUSE. John Nieto-Phillips launched the multilingual, multidisciplinary Latinx humanities journal in fall 2016 and is its editor. It is published twice yearly by Indiana University Press and with support from the College.
- Roberta Pergher’s article ““An Italian War? War and Nation in the Italian Historiography of the First World War” appeared in the Journal of Modern History 90 (December 2018): 863–899. In November 2018 she presented a paper on Libyan concentration camps at a conference on Landscapes of Violence in Parma, Italy, followed by one on the legacy of the First World War in Italy at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy in London, UK. Starting in January 2019, Roberta will act as a cooperation partner in a five-year project “‘Man hört, man spricht’: Informal Communication and Information ‘From Below’ in Nazi Europe” at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich, Germany. In March, her CUP monograph Mussolini’s Nation Empire will appear in paperback.
- Ellen Wu made her prime-time debut on Tuesday, January 15 on TRU TV comedy show ADAM RUINS EVERYTHING. She is a guest expert on the episode "Adam Ruins Sitcoms," which is about the history of some of America's most prevalent racial and gender stereotypes. (For those without cable, the episode will soon be available on the ARE website, and past seasons can be viewed on Netflix).
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