Jeff Gould participated in a graduate seminar at Pittsburgh University on transnational labor that discussed his book Solidarity Under Siege. At the [virtual] Feria Internacional del Libro [Guadalajara, Mx] he presented his forthcoming book Entre el Bosque y los Arboles: Utopías Menores en El Salvador, Nicaragua, y Uruguay, published by CALAS, Guadalajara, [Between the Forest and the Trees: Minor Utopias in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Uruguay].

Graduate student Meghan Riley (virtually) presented a paper entitled “ ‘…We Are Simply Inoffensive Fools Who Want to Feed People They Don’t Think Are Worth Feeding’: Quaker Food Relief in the Unoccupied Zone” at the Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for Exile Research at the University of Vienna on December 3.

Rebecca Spang’s chapter “Publicity, Debt, and Politics: The Old Regime and the French Revolution” has been published in Nicolas Barreyre and Nicolas Delalande, eds., A World of Public Debt: A Political History (Palgrave, 2020). The book has received very nice pre-publication reviews from Thomas Piketty, Emma Rothschild, and Jeremy Adelman.

Ellen Wu's chapter "Overrepresentation: Asian Americans and the Conundrums of Statistical Mirroring" was just published in the multidisciplinary anthology DIFFERENCE WITHOUT DOMINATION: PURSUING JUSTICE IN DIVERSE DEMOCRACIES, eds. Danielle Allen (Harvard) and Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics), by University of Chicago Press. She thanks IU's US History workshop participants for feedback and suggestions on an earlier draft of the chapter.