Michelle Tusan's (History) book, The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War, has come out in paperback by Cambridge University Press. 

John Curry (History) presented a paper titled, "Overlooked Contexts: How Shifting Mediterranean Relationships Contributed to the Muradid Wars of Succession," on Nov. 23 at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association in Washington, D.C. The paper was part of a broader panel on "Outsiders and Intermediaries in Ottoman Tunis and the…

Michelle Tusan (History) was interviewed on Eating the Past for Utah Public Radio on Armenian foodways.

Michelle Tusan (History) delivered the Presidential address, sponsored by the Royal Historical Society, at the annual North American Conference on British Studies in Montreal. Her talk was entitled: ‘What Liberalism Requires: The Very Victorian Marriage of J.S. Mill and Harriet Taylor.’ She will now serve as Immediate Past President of NACBS.

Paul Werth (History) has published a Russian translation of his book "1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution" (Oxford, 2021), with the publisher Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie in Moscow. The Russian version appears as "1837: Russia's Hidden Transformation," because the Putin regime does not like revolutions, even "quiet" ones (i.e., ones by stealth, under…

Michael Green (History) presented a lecture, "The Tropicana: From Tiffany to Island to Gone," at the Clark County Museum on Nov. 13.

Michael Green and A.B. Wilkinson (both History) participated as panelists at a special Vegas PBS preview event for the forthcoming documentary, "The American Revolution," produced by Ken Burns and his company.

Jeff Schauer (History) was the subject of a feature story that also appears in the newsletter of the Nordic Africa Institute. NAI, based in Uppsala (Sweden), represents a collaboration between Nordic governments, and "conducts research and offers resources that help further understanding about contemporary Africa." The newsletter…

History Department: Michael Green (professor/chair), and Fabian Rebolledo and Connor Young (graduate students) attended the recent Preserve Nevada annual meeting in Ely, Nevada. Green is executive director of Preserve Nevada and Rebolledo is deputy director, and organized the meeting.

Paul W Werth (History) has published a brief, accessible book titled, "How Russia Got Big: A Territorial History" (Bloomsbury Publishers). Covering over 700 years and featuring 29 original maps (in just 150 pages), the book recounts the construction of the world's largest country — from medieval Muscovy to the present war in Ukraine—as well as its…

Teddy Uldricks (History) gave an extensive interview on China's role in WW II that was published in the Chinese newspaper, THE PAPER (in Mandarin). Another interview on Western views of China's wartime experience was published in the magazine of the Social Sciences in China Press.

Members of UNLV's chapter of the Nevada Faculty Alliance (NFA) recently elected a new executive board. Sue Wainscott (University Libraries), Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy), and John Curry (History) will serve as president, vice president, and treasurer, respectively. NFA is the independent association of faculty in Nevada since 1983…