- Ph.D. candidate Aaron Fountain received the Indiana Association of Historians James H. Madison Best Article Prize for his article "Building a School Movement in Naptown: The Corn Cob Curtain Controversy, Free Speech, and 1960s and 1970s High School Activism in Indianapolis." The prize is awarded to the author of the best article published in theIndiana Magazine of History during the previous calendar year.
- Jeff Gould’s film, Port Triumph, was nominated for Best Cinematography – Documentary Feature at the Queens World Film Festival.
- Congratulations to Peter Guardino, who has been named a Provost Professor of History. Additionally, on March 25 Peter gave the lecture “With Whatever Weapons: Mexico City’s People, National Identity, and the American Invasion, 1847” at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies of the University of Illinois in Champaign, Il.
- Graduate student Amanda Lanzillo was awarded a Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grant from the American Historical Association.
- Rebecca Spang’s “MMT and Why Historians Need to Reclaim Studying Money” was this week’s Feature Op-Ed on HNN (History News Network).