- The campus Twitter account (@IUBloomington) recently asked: “Favorite class ever taken at IU aaaand [sic] go.” Of the 263 responses, the plurality cited two history courses not taught in the History Department (Glen Gass’s History of Rock and Roll; David Baker’s History of Jazz). Another 25 or so (i.e., roughly 10% of all responses) mentioned classes taught in our department! Alumni and current students tweeted their enthusiasm for a wide range of History courses, including: “The Sixties with Professor McGerr” (mentioned twice); “any of the medieval history courses I took with Professor Deliyannis”; “From Elvis to Springsteen (Prof. Bodnar), The Kennedys and The Vietnam War ( both classes w/Prof. Cullather), History of the Holocaust and my J400 seminar (both w/Prof. Roseman)”; “WWII with James Madison” [to which another account added “I second that. Anything that James Madison taught. He was awesome.”]; “Tie for me. Coaching basketball with Coach Knight and Indiana History with James Madison”; “anything with Professor Kuromiya”; “Intro to Digital History with Kalani Craig”; “Intro to Nazi Germany with Roberta Pergher”; “Russian Revolution and the Soviet Regime taught by Professor Kuromiya”; “History of the Holocaust”; “(Carl Ipsen’s) Mafia and Other Italian Mysteries”; “The Icon and the Axe: Russia Through the Ages with David Ransel”; “Rock, Hip Hop, and Revolution with McGerr.” George Juergens, J. Rufus Fears, and Irving Katz were also cited as inspirational.
- On Saturday, Feb 22, Janine Giordano Drake gave a talk, “The Other Suffragettes: Rethinking Narratives in the History of Women’s Suffrage,” to the current cohort at Hoosier Women Forward, a political and civic training program for women in the Democratic Party in Indiana. The talk is partially sponsored by the Indiana Women’s Suffrage Centennial.
- Graduate student Szabolcs László published his paper “‘The Shock of Seeing the Freedom of American Life’: The Iowa International Writing Program as Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War” in The Annals of Iowa, 78 (Spring 2020). The archival research conducted for the paper was supported by a State Historical Society of Iowa Research Grant.
- Jonathan Schlesinger presented the paper “Ivory Carvers, Taste, and Global Interaction in Early Modern China” at a History Department seminar at Duke University.
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