Welcome

• David Nichols, Professor of History and Native American and Indigenous Studies, Carmony Chair, and Editor, Indiana Magazine of History.
• Historian Loren Michael Mortimer (Ph.D., University of California, Davis) joins IU's Race, Migration, and Indigeneity Program (RMI) as an ACLS Emerging Voice Fellow.

New History Graduate Students

• Kasha Appleton
• Matthew Beil
• David Castillo
• Brock DeMark
• Ezra Evans
• Kendra García
• Jaelyn Glennemeier
• Ryan Jensen
• Manuel Martínez
• William Morgan
• Brian Quinn
• Hannah Render
• Bethany Smith
• Quentin Swaryczewski
• Ellen Taraskiewicz
• Roy Woodall
• Shouyue Zhang

Faculty + Student News

• Anne Carmichael, Kalani Craig, Colin Elliott, Sarah Knott, Michelle Moyd, and Ellen Wu participated in the IU Arts & Humanities Quarantine[d] Conversations Series.
• Stephanie Huezo (IU History Ph.D., 2019), Marissa Moorman, Michelle Moyd, and our former colleague Khalil Muhammad participated in IU's Virtual Arts & Humanities Confronting Racism Series sponsored by Indiana University's Center for Research on Race, Ethnicity and Society (for which Michelle serves as Associate Director), College of Arts and Humanities Institute, and Arts and Humanities Council.
• Four of our graduate students have just received Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowships: Liam Kingsley, Casey Korducki, Avenel Rolfsen, and Leah Valtin-Erwin.
• Liza Black received an IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Research Grant for her book project, The Police Empire and Native America: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and the Murder of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind.
• History and AAADS double major AJ Boyd was one of ten rising seniors across the US who were awarded a prestigious Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship.
• The IU Environmental Resilience Institute (ERI) "Explainer" website for July 2020 features an interview with ERI fellow and adjunct assistant professor of History Elizabeth Grennan Browning.
• Michael Dodson has been promoted to Full Professor.
• Charlene Fletcher (Ph.D., 2020) is the recipient of an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship. She'll be affiliated with the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University.
• Distinguished Professor Jeff Gould received a Production Grant from the IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Program for his new film, Dawn to Despair.
• Carl Ipsen published Xylella fastidiosa and the Olive Oil Crisis in Puglia in Gastronomica.
• Ben Irvin received a 2020 New Frontiers of Creativity and Scholarship award.
• Tina Irvine has been selected as one of the five finalists for the C. Vann Woodward dissertation prize, which recognizes the best dissertation on southern history completed in the last calendar year.
• Sarah Knott has been promoted to Full Professor. She has also been appointed to the Sally M. Reahard Professorship of History.
• Graduate student Szabolcs László published an essay entitled, "Memory Politics in an Illiberal Regime: Hungary's New Trianon Memorial" on Public Seminar about the "Memorial of National Unity," recently unveiled in Budapest, Hungary.
• Ph.D. candidate Asher Lubotzky has won the Gerda Henkel Stiftung Ph.D. Fellowship for years 2021-2023. During the summer, he also published two pieces in Hebrew: the first deals with current developments in African-Israeli relations in historical perspective (published by the Arena Magazine of the Interdisciplinary Center); and the second piece analyzes the Jihadist activity in Northern Mozambique (published by the Forum for Regional Thinking). Asher was also interviewed to the INSS (Institute for National Security Studies) podcast about the current tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia regarding the building of the Renaissance Dam.
• History and Classics double major Spencer Alexander McDaniel was recently profiled by NPR and quoted in The Guardian. For more about Spencer, see his blog, Tales of Times Forgotten.
• Michael McGerr received the 2020 James P. Holland and Morley Award for Exemplary Teaching and Service, an award that "recognizes College tenure-line faculty who have proven to be outstanding teachers throughout their careers and exemplified dedication to students coupled with innovative pedagogy."
• Marissa Moorman has been promoted to Full Professor.
• Amrita Myers has been selected as a College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Fellow for Diversity and Inclusion. In this capacity she will work closely with the Associate and Assistant Deans for Diversity and Inclusion to play a key role in (1) driving core initiatives to strategically advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in the faculty ranks, and (2) promoting an inclusive academic climate in the College. Amrita will also serve as Interim Associate Editor of the Journal of American History in Spring and Summer 2021.
• Julia Roos received an IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Research Grant, which will allow her to complete her book, The Black Other in German Society: Biracial "Occupation Children," 1920-1960.
• Eric Sandweiss has been appointed to the Thomas Milton Miller and Kathryn Owens Miller Professorship in Indiana History.
• Ph.D. student Jazma Sutton has been awarded the 2020 Indiana Society of Pioneers Fellowship for doctoral dissertation research.
• Fei-Hsien Wang has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure and is the Associate Editor of the American Historical Review.
• Ellen Wu received a 2020 Senior Ford Foundation Fellowship award, which will allow her to complete her book, Overrepresented: Asian Americans in the Age of Affirmative Action.