Professor John Curry (History) has successfully released his new translated book titled The Book of China: A Persian Merchant's Description of the Ming State for the Ottoman Court, by Columbia University Press. Curry worked with his co-editors Kaveh Hemmat and Hyunhee Park to produce an annotated version of the text of `Ali Akbar Khatayi, a…

Maryam Ahranjani (Law), David Tanenhaus (Law/History), and A.B. Wilkinson (History) were panelists on "America 250: Panel Discussion and Historical Reflection," moderated by Michael Green (History).

Michelle Tusan's (History) essay, "Violence and Genocide" appeared in The Interwar World, a volume recently awarded the American Historical Association's Waldo G. Leland Prize. 

Michael Green (History) has co-edited A Companion to Abraham Lincoln, part of the Wiley-Blackwell Companions to American History series, with Shae Smith Cox (History Ph.D., 2020), and Evan C. Rothera. 

John Haberstroh (History) was interviewed for the weekly teaching newsletter of The Chronicle of Higher Education on alternative grading practices in humanities courses. Using specifications grading, Haberstroh communicates high expectations and increases transparency for students. This grading system also allows students the opportunity…

In collaboration with the Nevada Center for Civic Engagement (NVCCE), the University of Nevada, Reno Center for Constitutional Law hosted educators from across Nevada for the 2026 Summer Teacher Institute at UNR’s Lake Tahoe campus. David Tanenhaus (Law, History) engaged participants in exploring constitutional history, Supreme Court jurisprudence…

John Curry (History) presented a paper titled "The Life of Ünsi Hasan Efendi (d. 1723): Failed Saint, or Indicator of Structural Change in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire?" in a panel on Empires and Ideologies at the American Historical Association's Pacific Coast Branch Annual Meeting held on the UNLV campus on July 30-31. He also chaired a…

Gregory Brown, John Curry, John Haberstroh, Jeff Schauer, A.B. Wilkinson, Dakota Ciolkosz, Fabian Rebolledo, Connor Young, Jessica Ayala Venegas, Natalie Dechaine, Nathan Pormentira, Emma Vermillion, EJ Decastro, Demetrius Khananisho Tolliver, Adrien (all History) presented at the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association…

Paul Werth (History) published an essay titled “Armenians, Empire, and the Politics of Conversion in 19th Century Russia,” in a volume, "Religious Conversion and Imperial Rule" (Frankfurt, 2026). That he did this rather than starting bar fights, slashing tires, and breaking windows in the neighborhood is convincing testament to the civilizing…

Paul W. Werth (History) gave an interview in June on the YouTube channel of Universitatea de Medicină, Farmacie, Științe și Tehnologie in the Romanian city of Târgu Mureș. Inquiring minds may wonder why. The answer is clear: When asked by colleagues at a Transylvanian university to speak on their YouTube channel about the fate of religious freedom…

Jeff Schauer (History) presented work at the European Congress of Conservation Biology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Based on archival research in the National Archives of Zambia and the Natural History Museum (London), Schauer argued that critical qualitative historical analysis of the processes by which conservationists…

John Curry (History) presented a paper entitled "The Hagiography of Ünsi Hasan Efendi (d. 1723) as a marker of socio-cultural shifts in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire" at the 26th meeting of the CIÉPO (Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes) Symposium, held in Varna, Bulgaria. His paper was part of a panel entitled…