- Earlier this month Susan Ferentinos, who assists the department with career programming, chaired a session at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, “NPS 101: Doing Historical Research for the National Park Service.” That week, she also gave a talk titled “LGBTQ Public History on the Cusp of Stonewall 50” at Central Connecticut State University and spoke at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design as part of their Seminar in Historic Preservation Theory and Practice. She also recently served as one of the invited speakers at the symposium “Stonewall 50: Defining LGBTQ Sites Preservation,” organized by the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation, and Planning.
- Graduate Student Andrew Jacobs presented a chapter of his dissertation, "The Making of a State-Sponsored Heroine: Angela Davis, African Americans, and the Promise of the Soviet Union," during a session at the Midwest Russian History Workshop at Northwestern University (April 13-14).
- Graduate student Szabolcs László was awarded a 2019 International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF), which will provide twelve-months funding for his dissertation research project entitled "Transcending the Cold War: Cultural and Scholarly Relations between Hungary and the U.S.,1960-1989."
- On April 12, Kaya Sahin attended a workshop organized by the Saxo Institute (University of Copenhagen) and the Global Humanities Initiative at Northwestern University: World History and the Temporalities of the Pre-Colonial. There, he gave a presentation: "The Times and Spaces of Ottoman History: From the Particular to the Universal."
- Ralph Walter, friend of the History department and IU’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been elected as the Bynum Tudor Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford, for the 2018-19 academic year: http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/discover/news/dr-ralph-walter-appointed-as-bynum-tudor-fellow/.
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