A Gift and a New Prize

The department has received a gift from the estate of Rozelle Boyd, who earned an MA in History from IUB in 1964 and later served as an assistant dean, helping found the Groups Program at IU. The department plans to use Mr. Boyd's gift to establish a new undergraduate essay prize, the Rozelle Boyd Prize in the History of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Read Mr. Boyd's memorial in the Indianapolis Star.

Student News

Congratulations to PhD Candidate George Andrei, who is recipient of a Fall College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award.

Congratulations to Sarah Foss (2018 PhD), Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University, on the publication of her book, On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala (UNC Press, 2022).

PhD Candidate Stepan Serdiukov published an article entitled "White landowners in Hawaii imported Russian workers in the early 1900s, to dilute the labor power of Asians in the islands", based on his dissertation research, in The Conversation.

Faculty News

Former History Adjunct Assistant Professor and IU Environmental Resilience Institute Fellow Elizabeth Grennan Browning has just published her book, Nature's Laboratory: Environmental Thought and Labor Radicalism in Chicago, 1886-1937 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). With Eric Sandweiss, Browning also recently published "Resilience and 'The Indiana Way': Hoosiers Respond to Environmental Change," in Janet McCabe et al., eds., Climate Change and Resilience in Indiana and Beyond (IU Press, 2022). This fall, she accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma.

Michael Dodson published "Reimagining New Delhi’s Central Vista" with the architectural e-journal PLATFORM. The first of the essay's two parts can be found here: https://www.platformspace.net/home/reimagining-new-delhis-central-vista-part-i. Part 2 will be published next Monday.

Clare Griffin's new book, Mixing Medicines, was reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement: 
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/mixing-medicines-clare-griffin-book-review-darra-goldstein/.

Professor Emeritus Hiro Kuromiya has just published a new book, Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy over China, 1894-1945 (Routledge, 2022). It is an open access title available for downloa

Tatiana Saburova presented a paper "Under-Mapped Territories and Imperial Landscapes: V. Sapozhnikov's Expeditions to Altai in Photographs and Writings" at the annual convention of the Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies in Chicago on November 12, 2022. She also served as a chair for a panel "Encountering the Unexpected in Siberia" at the ASEEES convention this year.

Rebecca Spang presented on “Making Money in the French Revolution” to the Early Modern Financial History Seminar (convened by colleagues at Bern, Vienna, and Tokyo Universities and the London School of Economics).