- Congratulations to Fei-Hsien Wang, who has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Congratulations to Michael Dodson, Sarah Knott, and Marissa Moorman, who have been promoted to Full Professor.
- Congratulations to Stephen Buono (Ph.D. expected July 2020), who has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC).
- Nick Cullather appears as a talking head in the PBS documentary The American Experience: The Man Who Tried to Feed the World, airing on April 22. He feels he was taken out of context, but that’s the way it goes with documentaries. He’ll have a chance to set the record straight on the WFYI radio show, All IN, which broadcasts on April 21 at 12:45-2:00.
- Colin Elliott won a visiting fellowship at the Free University of Brussels for Summer of 2021. The fellowship is funded by the Flanders Research Foundation as part of the ‘Structural Determinants of Economic Performance in the Roman World’ international research network. During the fellowship, Colin will work on his second book—an ecological and epidemiological history of the second-century A.D. Roman economy.
- Khaled Esseissah has been awarded the Council of American Overseas Research Centers/National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship to support five-months of research in Mauritania, Senegal, and France. He is a 2019 African history Ph.D. and currently Assistant Teaching Professor in the African Studies Program at Georgetown University.
- Doctoral student Sydney-Paige Patterson has received a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship for 2020-2021 to complete her research in India.
- On April 15, Mark Roseman’s interview about his recent book “Du bist nicht ganz verlassen. Eine Geschichte von Rettung und Widerstand im Nationalsozialismus“ was broadcast on the book program „Vorlese – aus Kultur Wissenschaft und Politik,“ on the German station, FSK. The podcast is reachable at: https://www.freie-radios.net/101620. Mark has also been appointed to the Academic Advisory Council of the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich.
- Rebecca Spang’s “The Revolution Is Under Way Already: Far from making Americans crave stability, the pandemic underscores how everything is up for grabs” appeared in the April 5 issue of The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/revolution-only-getting-started/609463/.
- Ellen Wu has been awarded a 2020-2021 Ford Foundation Senior Fellowship to work on her book project Overrepresented: Asian Americans in the Age of Affirmative Action
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