Student News

George Andrei received a CAHI graduate student travel award to present at the Rural Voices Workshop at New Europe College in Bucharest, Romania on November 11. He will be presenting a paper called “‘Our Struggle for Existence’: The Many Faces of Socioecological Vulnerability in Rural Interwar Transylvania.”

PhD student Justin Hawkins is the recipient of a CAHI Graduate Conference Travel Award.

PhD Candidate Asher Lubotzky's essay about the evolution of African-Israeli relations from the 1950s until the present day was published last week in Bekeh Ukelina's new edited volume about the "New Scramble for Africa."

Faculty News

Liza Black gave a talk on the Rootedness: Land, Belonging, Displacement panel at the Global Indigenous Studies Inaugural Workshop at IU on November 5.

Ann Carmichael's article, "The Legal Foundations of Post-Mortem Diagnosis in Later Medieval Milan," has just appeared in L. Jones and N. Varlik, eds., Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World: Perspectives from across the Mediterranean and Beyond (York Medieval Press, 2022), 67-98.

This Saturday, Janine Drake will speak on “The Interface of Legislation and Education” at the Indiana Conference of AAUP.

On October 31, Peter Guardino gave the paper “El federalismo popular radical y la expulsión de los españoles” at the XVI Reunión Internacional de Historiadores de México in Austin, TX. Despite the date, he did not wear a costume.

The Chinese language edition of Sarah Knott's Mother Is A Verb was awarded Best Translated Book of the Year by Open Book (Taiwan). In New York in October, she presented "Middle Care" to Fordham University's "Carework and the Hidden History of Capitalism" conference, sponsored by the O'Connell Initiative on the Global History of Capitalism. IU PhD Stephanie Huezo, currently an assistant professor at Fordham, attended the conference and sends warm regards to the department.

Julia Roos is the historian in the podcast “Schwarz und Deutsch” (Black and German), October 27, 2022, hosted by Holger Klein, produced by Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education), Bonn, Germany, podcast MP3 audio, 40:00, APuZ #13: Schwarz und Deutsch | bpb.de . On October 28, Julia presented the invited paper, “Piercing the Myth of the ‘Untainted’ Medical Profession: A 1948 Investigation into the Nazi-Era Sterilizations of Biracial Children,” at the History Department Research Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Mark Roseman was a participant in the Podcast “Conspirituality,” episode 127, “Doing Good in Impossibly Bad Times”. He was also a discussant at the online conference “Emotions and Holocaust Studies”, hosted by the Goethe-University-Frankfurt, and the Fritz-Bauer-Institute, Frankfurt.