- This spring, Eric Gonzaba, BA '12, will defend his George Mason University History dissertation, "Because the Night: Nightlife and Remaking the Gay Male World, 1970-2000." Gonzaba has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of History in the Department of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton, where he will join fellow IU alumnus Dustin Abnet (PhD '13).
- Michael Grossberg gave a talk, “The Politics of Childhood: Law and Child Protection in Modern America,”
- Graduate student Denisa Jashari received the College Arts and Humanities Institute Graduate Conference Travel Award.
- Sarah Knott's Mother: An Unconventional History was published by Penguin Viking in the UK on March 7th, and has received reviews across the British press: Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Observer and The Spectator. Sarah appeared on the television news programme Scotland Tonight on March 6. Guardian Book of the Day review here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/06/mother-by-sarah-knott-review.
- Marissa J. Moorman presented on a panel at the book launch of “Atlantica: Art From Angola and the Diaspora” on March 9 in Lisbon. She co-authored, with Delinda Collier of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a piece entitled “Medium and Media in Angola: Expressive Practices in Context” that appears in the book. On March 12 she co-taught a class called “Luanda Humms and Buzzes: Urban Soundscapes, Club Music, and Dance” with André Soares, a PhD student at Universidade Nova in Lisbon. The class was held at ISCTE at the University of Lisbon. She also signed a contract with Mercado de Letras for the Portuguese translation of her book Intonations, which will be published in June in Lisbon.
- Graduate student Nicolas Sillitti presented the paper “From Bandits to Patriots. Military Service, Class and Ethnicity in Buenos Aires at the turn of the twentieth century" at the X Rio de la Plata Workshop, William & Mary College, VA.
- Rebecca Spang presented “The Nature of Money” at the annual Linda and Harlan Martens Economic History Forum sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (Pasadena, California).
- Ph.D. candidate Daniel Story has accepted a tenure-track position as Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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