- Jeff Gould’s book, Solidarity Under Siege: the Salvadoran Labor Movement, 1970-1990, was published by Cambridge. His documentary, Puerto El Triunfo, was shown on Costa Rican public television [Canal 15]. He also published “Ambivalent Memories: A Reflection on Nicaragua,” ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, June 2019, and “Nicaragua: Una Reflexión Histórica,” Agenda Pública, El País [Madrid], June 10, 2019. Jeff was also awarded a Visiting Professorship at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes de Sciences Sociales, Paris.
- Padraic Kenney celebrated the 30th anniversary of the fall of Communism in Poland by participating in a roundtable discussion: “Europeans: Do we still feel that we have a common purpose?” at the European Solidarity Center in Gdansk. He also delivered a keynote address at the Seventh World Congress of Polish Studies, held in Gdansk.
- Hans Klemm, the current U.S. Ambassador to Romania and an IU alumnus (History and Economics, 1980) is the recipient of the first Indiana University Bicentennial Medal to be awarded by the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Graduate student Szabolcs László contributed a chapter entitled “The Anti-Political Vision. Post-1968 Theories of Dissent in Central Europe and Beyond” to the newly published volume Unsettled 1968 in the Troubled Present, edited by Aleksandra Konarzewska, Anna Nakai, and Michał Przeperski (Routledge, 2019). On June 5, he gave a conference presentation entitled “Cultural Diplomacy and Cold War Interactions: Hungarian Participants at the Iowa International Writing Program” at the Cold War History Research Center International Student Conference organized by Corvinus University in Budapest. On June 16, he presented his paper "Transnational Mediators in the Cold War: Cultural and Scholarly Relations between Communist Hungary and the U.S. (1960-1989)” at the ASEEES Summer Convention in Zagreb, Croatia.
- In July, Jason McGraw presented a paper, "Jamaican Migrations, the United States, and Cultural Transformation in the Americas," at the Inheritance and Innovation Symposium hosted by the Institute of American Studies, Northeast Normal University in Changchun, China.
- Marissa Moorman’s book Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War, 1931-2002 has been published by Ohio University Press in the New African Histories Series: https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Powerful+Frequencies. On May 20 she gave a talk on the high vs popular art (arte erudita vs. arte popular) at the conference to celebrate the first graduate class of ISART the Instituto Superior das Artes in Luanda, Angola. June 4 Moorman presented “A música popular angolana e a rádio durante o século XX,” at the Curso Livre de História de Angola, UCCLA, Lisbon, Portugal. And June 14th she gave a talk on the history of Angolan music at the October Gallery in London.
- John H. “Jeff” Richardson (B.A., History, 1973; J.D. 1977; MPA 1981) is the recipient of a 2020 College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award.
- Mark Roseman has been appointed General Editor for the Cambridge History of the Holocaust, a four-volume Cambridge History with roughly 110 contributors. It is projected to appear in 2022.
- Ellen Wu has a new "Soapbox" feature essay out in MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY: "It's Time to Center War in US Immigration History." It can be accessed free for a limited time on the MAH website here. Over the summer, she presented pieces of her new book project on the history of Asian Americans and affirmative action at the Remaking American Political History conference (June), the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (June), and Inheritance and Innovation: An International Symposium on Migration, Ethnicity, and the History of US Civilization sponsored by the Northeast Normal University Institute of American Studies in Changchun, China (July).
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