Students

PhD Candidate George Andrei recently published the piece "Between Sustainability and Development in Romania," as part of the imitative for public engagement developed by NYU's Jordan Center for Advanced Knowledge of Russia. You can read the piece here:
https://jordanrussiacenter.org/news/between-sustainability-and-development-in-romania/#.YW7ogRDMJmB.

PhD Candidate Szabolcs László gave a presentation entitled “Interlocking Truth Regimes. Internationally Mobile Scholars as Targets of Cold War Agendas” on Thursday, October 14, at the workshop addressing Methodologies of Working in Cold War Archives. Facts, Values, and Archival Ecologies, organized at the Blinken Open Society Archives in Budapest.

PhD Candidate Meghan Riley presented a paper titled “The Science of Jewish Starvation, 1942 to the Present” at the Lessons and Legacies Regional Interim Meeting at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich, Germany.

Faculty

Elizabeth Grennan Browning published “Wastelanding and Racialized Reproductive Labor: ‘Long Dyings’ in East Chicago from Urban Renewal to Superfund Remediation,” Environmental History 26, no. 4 (October 2021): 749-775, https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emab051. Elizabeth also published “City Care: Historical and Contemporary Lessons from Environmental Justice Coalition-Building,” ENGAGE! Co-Created Knowledge Serving the City 3, no. 1 (2021): 48-54, https://doi.org/10.18060/25581.

Oxford University Press has published Of the People: A History of the United States in its 5th edition. Serving as lead author, Michael McGerr also wrote the seven chapters on the US from the Cold War to the January 6, 2021, insurrection. His co-authors include Karen Dunak, who earned her PhD in our department in 2010. Maxwell Johnson (PhD 2018) wrote both the accompanying source book and instructors manual. Michael's book A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progresive Movement, 1870s-1920s (Simon & Schuster/Oxford University Press) is the subject of Super Summary's A Fierce Discontent by Michael McGerr. Purchasers save $5.00 and the burden of reading Michael's work.

September 8th marked the passing of Walter T.K. Nugent, a US historian who was a member of our faculty from 1963 to 1984. Publishing widely, Nugent held several administrative positions, including chair of the department, before leaving to become a member of the University of Notre Dame's history department. In 2020, he received a Bicentennial Medal for his service to IU. His widow, Suellen Hoy, received her PhD in our department in 1975. The family requests donations in lieu of flowers to the Indiana University Archives, 1320 E. Tenth St., Bloomington, IN 47405.

Alumni

Devi Mays (PhD 2013) has won the American Historical Association's Dorothy Rosenberg Prize "for the most distinguished work of scholarship on the history of the Jewish diaspora published in English during the previous calendar year." Devi's book, Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diasporaappeared from Stanford University Press in 2020. You can congratulate Devi, who is an associate professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, by writing her here: devimays@umich.edu.