John Curry (History) has just been appointed for a two-year term as the Higher Education co-chair for the Advanced Placement World History Exam Development Committee, where he will head up the committee that vets and prepares the questions for the AP World History: Modern Exam for over 360,000 high school students throughout the U.S. and…

John Curry (History) acted as a reader for the AP World History: Modern Examination as part of his work on the Exam Development Committee during the first two weeks of June. The exam is administered to over 360,000 high school students in the ninth and tenth grades across the United States and abroad. The exam required thousands of graders and two…

John Curry (History) participated in a joint roundtable and panel presentation on "Diversifying and Decolonizing the World History Survey: Case Studies from the K-16 Classroom" on June 23 and 24 at the World History Association conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His Saturday presentation following the roundtable was titled, "The Missing…

Michelle Tusan's (History) book, The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East, is now out with Cambridge University Press. 

On Thursday, June 15, 2023, OUR’s Spectra Undergraduate Research Journal’s Vol. 3, Issue 1 went live with four undergraduate research articles. This issue celebrates the work of undergraduate researchers representing three academic departments: department of history, School of Life Sciences, and department of civil and environmental engineering…

Jeff Schauer (History) participated in the European Conference on African Studies in Cologne, Germany. He was a contributor to the panel titled "Wilder Futures? Rewilding and multispecies coexistence in rural Africa" alongside colleagues from Germany, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. Schauer's paper was titled "Chongololo: The Children's Wildlife Magazine…

Professor John Curry (History) presented a preliminary paper titled, “New Insights on the Presentation of the Ming Dynasty at the Ottoman Court: the case of MS Ayasofya 3188,” on April 29 to the 2023 meeting of the Western Ottomanists' Workshop in Vancouver, Canada. As a founding member of the organization and its record-keeper since…

Professor John Curry (History) gave a paper titled, "A Divergent Manuscript: What MS Ayasofya 3188 Tells Us about Presenting the Ming Dynasty to the Ottoman Court," at a symposium convened at Ohio State University on May 20. The symposium was convened to honor the retirement of professor Jane Hathaway, who served as a dissertation…

Gregory Brown (History) delivered a paper titled, "The Transatlantic Beaumarchais Correspondence Network: Textual Corpus, Metadata, Social Network Analysis," as part of an interdisciplinary workshop on "Rethinking the Long Eighteenth Century" hosted by the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis at Stanford University. 

Michelle Turk (History) published a book review of Outback Nevada: Real Stories from the Silver State by John M. Glionna. Turk's review will appear in the fall 2023 print edition of the Western Historical Quarterly.

Jeff Schauer (History) was interviewed for a story on Reality Blurred about an upcoming reality television show, Renovation Wild, that involves tourism, conservation, and colonial legacies in Zambia. 

Noria Litaker (History) was awarded a Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Award by the Newberry Library for her forthcoming book, Bedazzled Saints: Catacomb Relics in Early Modern Bavaria (University of Virginia Press, fall 2023). The award supports the publication of outstanding works of scholarship that concern European civilization before 1700…