Arlene Díaz is one of the inaugural recipients of the Inclusive Excellence Awards sponsored by the Bloomington Faculty Council’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.

Michael Dodson has received a Fulbright Senior Nehru Research Fellowship to India.

Tatiana Saburova has been selected for a Collaborative Research Award by the Institute for Advanced Study. 

Tatiana, as a director of the IU Russian Studies Workshop, was a co-organizer of the international conference "THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Regional and Transnational Perspectives (19th -21st cent.) held online by the German Historical Institute in Moscow on March 29-30, 2021, also serving as a discussant at the conference panel "Actors and Biographies Between Far East, Centre and Abroad".

Tatiana wrote an introduction for a book about Ludwig Wonago, a Polish photographer in Siberia in the early 20th century which was published in Krasnoyarsk, Russia in 2020 and was awarded as a "book of the year" in Krasnoyarsk in March 2021.

Leah Shopkow was interviewed by Al Zambone for his "Historically Thinking" podcast series. The podcast can be accessed at https://historicallythinking.org/episode-203-the-saint-the-count-and-sourcing-historical-thinking-series/

Former IU History faculty member Kirsten Sword’s book, Wives not Slaves:  Patriarchy and Modernity in the Age of Revolutions, has just been published by the University of Chicago Press.