Michael Green, Andy Kirk, Willy Bauer, Michelle Turk (all History), Claytee White (Libraries), and Karen Harry (Anthropology) presented at the NEH Summer Institute, "Hoover Dam and the Shaping of the American West," which brought 25 K-12 teachers from around the country to Southern Nevada for a two-week program of content, pedagogy, and tours.

Doris Morgan Rueda (History) presented a paper at the biennial conference of the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth. Her paper, "Delinquency and Duress in the Desert: Juvenile Detention Centers in mid-20th Century Las Vegas," explored the development of juvenile detention institutions in Southern Nevada and its…

Doris Morgan Rueda (History) will have art work featured in "Sizeable," a public art exhibition at Clark County's Rotunda Gallery at the Government Center. The exhibition is on public display through July 29. 

Paul W. Werth (History) has been invited for a month-long appointment in 2022 as visiting professor to the department of historical studies at the University of Turin in Italy, for participation in its Global History of Empires program.

Michelle Elizabeth Tusan (History) published "The Woman of No Importance" as part of the Lausanne Project, an international group of scholars engaged in rewriting the history of the end of World War I. 

William Bauer (History) presented a paper at the annual conference of the Historians of the Twentieth Century United States.  Bauer's paper, "Reclaiming Alcatraz: The Legacies and Continuities of the Alcatraz Occupation, 1971-2021," explored the significance of the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz in light of more recent examples…

Mary Ludwig (History) presentated a paper at the annual conference of the Historians of the Twentieth Century United States.  Ludwig's paper "Shared Histories: Internment on Indigenous Lands" explored the relationship between Indigenous People and Japanese immigrants at internment camps placed on American Indian…

Michelle Tusan (History) published “Empire and International Relations” in  A Cultural History of Democracy, vol. 5, (London: Bloomsbury, 2021) edited by Eugenio Biagini.

Paul Werth (History) presented his recently published book, 1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution, in seminars at Humboldt University in Berlin (January), the University of California-Santa Barbara (April), and Ludwig-Maximaliens University in Munich (May). 

Susan Lee Johnson (History) was interviewed by Stephen Hausmann on the American West channel of the New Books Network of podcasts. They spoke about Johnson's book Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West. The interview was posted May 7.

Michelle Tusan (History) gave two interviews on President Biden’s recognition of the Armenian genocide — one for the Indian Express, Mumbai and the other for Radio, Seoul, South Korea.

Doris Morgan Rueda (History) has been selected as a recipient for the American Historical Association 2021 Littleton-Griswold Research Grant to support research in U.S. legal history and in the general field of law and society.