Jeff Schauer (History) participated in the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies. His paper, "'Sitting Like Robots Doing Extremely Nothing': Expatriates, Work, Loyalty, and Neocolonial Power in 1960s Africa" juxtaposed debates about "model whites" in Kenya, dual loyalties, and meaningless labor in Zambia, and the…

John Curry (History) has worked as one of a team of translators of the first printed books in Ottoman Turkish, dating from 1732. The Cihannuma, or Cosmographia of Katip Celebi (d. 1657), later combined with the work of the Arab geographer Abu Bakr al-Dimashqi and published by the Hungarian convert Ibrahim Muteferrika, was an encyclopedic…

Carlos S. Dimas (History) gave a talk,  "Poisoned Eden: The Practice of Governance and Autonomy in the Cholera Epidemic of 1886- 1887 in Northwestern Argentina," at the history department of the University of Melbourne (Australia). The talk was based on Dimas's recently published book Poisoned Eden: Cholera Epidemics, State-Building,…

John Curry (History) was a featured panelist on a March 5 radio program on KCEP 88.1. "The Ottoman Empire and Tolerance in Society" was hosted by Mujahid Ramadan and also included professor Bojan Petrovic of the University of California, Irvine. The program discussed various aspects of Ottoman culture from its origins in Central Asia to the legacy…

Doris Morgan Rueda (History) accepted a postdoctoral fellow position at the Center for Law & History at Stanford Law School for 2022-24. 

Paul Werth (History) has published an article, "What is a ‘Minority’ in an Imperial Formation? Thoughts on the Russian Empire,” in the journal Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 41.3 (2021): 325-31.

Teddy Uldricks (History) provided background information and analysis in a two-hour interview by KLAS-TV channel 8 reporters concerning a recently discovered collection of letters written by a World War II serviceman.

Doris Morgan Rueda (History) was selected for a research fellowship from the Arizona Historical Society to conduct research at the Tucson branch of the Arizona Historical Society Archives. 

Carlos S. Dimas (History) authored a book, Poisoned Eden: Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problem of Public Health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865-1908 through the University of Nebraska Press. The book analyzes the social, political, and cultural effects of three cholera epidemics, in 1868, 1886, and 1895, that shook the northwestern…

Michelle Tusan (History) received an NEH Fellowship to support her book project, The Last Treaty: The Middle Eastern Front and the End of the First World War.

Michelle Tusan (History) published in the Journal of Modern History, "The Concentration Camp as Site of Refuge: The Rise of the Refuge Camp and the Great War in the Middle East."

John Curry (History) gave a virtual invited presentation to the Anglo-Turkish Society in the United Kingdom titled "The Legacy of Mezemorta Hüseyin Paşa: Corsair, Captain, Ottoman Grand Admiral." The Anglo-Turkish Society is a learned society of scholars that promotes scholarship on Turkey and strengthening Turkish-U.K. relations. The talk was…