Michelle Tusan (History) delivered a lecture, "Mapping Genocide and the Refugee Experience during the Great War in the Middle East," for the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.   

John Curry (History) was the featured guest on an inaugural podcast series launched by the Yunus Emre Institute in Washington, D.C. Hosted by Cengiz Sisman, the virtual podcast "Humans of the Ottoman Empire: Sufis," was attended by several hundred people from around the world and covered a variety of topics related to the influence of Islamic…

Paul W. Werth (History) has received a fellowship for historical research in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia from the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus. 

John Curry (History) made a keynote presentation of his work in progress for the Mediterranean Seminar's Spring Workshop, The Global Mediterranean, this month. His paper was "Working the Global Mediterranean: Mezemorta Hüseyin Paşa as Corsair, Captive, Dey, and Admiral in the Late Seventeenth Century." He was the third of three keynote…

Susan Lee Johnson (History) has been interviewed for the podcast "Writing Westward" about the recently published book Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West. The podcast is sponsored by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University,

William Bauer (History and the American Indian Alliance) was invited by the department of history and Native American studies at the University of Oregon to discuss his forthcoming book, We Are the Land: A Native History of California. Bauer discussed the process of writing the book, the principal arguments, and challenges of writing a…

William Bauer (History and the American Indian Alliance) delivered the keynote address at the annual conference of the Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. He discussed his forthcoming book, We Are the Land: A Native History of California, which is a survey of California Indian history.

Mary Ludwig (History), delivered a paper, "Parallels, Intersections, and Divergences: The Gila River Indian Community and Japanese Americans during World War II," at the annual conference of the Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Her research examined the entwined histories of Indigenous People and…

Paul W. Werth (History) is about to release a new book, 1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution with Oxford University Press. In chapters ranging from poetry and opera to empire and industry, the book paints a rich and vivid portrait of Russia at a critical moment, when the world's largest country acquired many of its most distinctive and outstanding…

Susan Lee Johnson (History) is the author of Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West (University of North Carolina Press 2020), which is featured on "The Page 99 Test," a blog of the Campaign for the American Reader that follows the maxim of Ford Madox Ford: "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the…

Carlos S. Dimas (History) was elected by his peers as secretary for the Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee of The Conference on Latin American History, the major organization of Latin American historians in the United States. He will serve as secretary for 2021-22, then serve as chair for 2022-23. 

Susan Lee Johnson (History) is the author of Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West (University of North Carolina Press), a critical biography that braids lives together over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, produced books about frontiersman Kit Carson — Quantrille McClung, a Denver…