Ann Carmichael, professor emerita of history, was a co-author involved in this just-published review article: Sebastián Duchêne et al. 2020. "The Recovery, Interpretation and Use of Ancient Pathogen Genomes." Current Biology 30: R1215-R1231." https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.081

Jim Madison, professor emeritus of history, is author of a new book, The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland (Indiana University Press). Focused on the 1920's, the last two chapters bring Klan-like ideals up to the present.

Michelle Moyd published an essay entitled "You Need Devotion: A Syllabus" with the Digital Feminist Collective. 

Tatiana Saburova  was co-organizer, presenter and moderator of "The Graduate Methods Training Workshop: Focus on Russia" held on October 2-3 and hosted by the Russian Studies Workshop under the REEI at Indiana University and funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The event was attended by thirteen Ph.D. students from US higher education institutions selected on a competitive basis, and taught by an international group of leading scholars in the field. The workshop, which introduced participants to archival and library resources and offered two conceptual panels on "Crossing Borders: Transnational and Comparative History" and "From the First Person: Identity, Subjectivity and Ego Documents," was a follow-up to an equally successful event offered in 2018.

Rebecca Spang has been named to the IU Presidential Search Advisory Committee. She would be happy to hear colleagues' thoughts and recommendations about the search. Distinguished alumnus of the department Jeff Richardson will serve on the search committee.