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…

John Curry (History) presented a paper entitled "Tracking the Lives of Sufi Leaders Through Their Mecmua Collections" at a symposium organized on "Mecmuas in the Ottoman World: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Current Research." Held in June at the University of Vienna in Austria, the workshop focused on the use of pre-modern handbooks…

Michelle Tusan (History) published, ‘1776: Teaching the Declaration of Independence’ in the Journal of British Studies.

Michael Green (History) presented two programs for "250 to 250," a project created by historian Heather Cox Richardson examining the history of the United States ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Susan Lee Johnson (History) delivered the opening plenary address at the Mormon History Association annual conference held in Las Vegas June 4-7. The invited address was entitled, "Unoriginal Sins: Slavery, Captivity, and Kinship in Western Places." In addition, Johnson chaired and moderated a session at the conference entitled, "Intimate Subjects…

John Curry (History) presented a paper at a three-part symposium held at the University of California, Los Angeles, entitled "Strange Synchronicities and Familiar Parallels in Asia, 1600–1800: Joseph Fletcher’s Plane Ride Revisited." The three-part symposium aimed to compare the three major empires of the Ottomans, Qing China, and the Mughal…

John Curry (History) was a presenter on a roundtable at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) this past weekend. The roundtable was titled "Reactions to Authoritarianism: Connecting the Historical to the Contemporary," and included several UNLV faculty members from various global fields…

Michelle Tusan's (History) NACBS Presidential Address, "What Liberalism Requires: The Very Victorian Marriage of J. S. Mill and Harriet Hardy Taylor," has been published in the Journal of British Studies.  https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2025.10186.

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.