Jeff Schauer (History) participated in "Remembering Kaunda: His Life and Legacies in Southern Africa and Beyond," a conference hosted by the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research (based in Lusaka, Zambia). Kenneth Kaunda (1924-2021) was Zambia's president between 1964 and 1991. Schauer's paper, "Arming Zambia for Africa:…

Analiesa Delgado (History) was recently granted the Graduate Student Prize by the Western History Association at their annual conference this year in Portland, Oregon. 

Nicole Batten, Analiesa Delgago, Alejandra Herrera, and Doris Morgan-Rueda (all History), all graduate students, won the Western History Association Graduate Student Prize, and were honored at the organization's 2021 conference, held recently in Portland, Oregon.

Nicole Batten (History), a doctoral student, won the WHA-Huntington Martin Ridge Fellowship to conduct dissertation research at The Huntington Library.

Doris Morgan-Rueda, a doctoral student, and Alejandra Herrera, a master's student (both History), won the 2021 Western History Association Trennert-Iverson Conference Scholarships to help fund their attendance at the Western History Association conference recently in Portland, Oregon.

Kristen Phipps (History), a doctoral student, presented as part of a panel at the recent Western History Association conference in Portland, Oregon. The panel was "Adventures in Applied History: Turning Hindsight into Insight," co-sponsored by the Center of the American West.

Doris Morgan Rueda (History) was recently awarded the Graduate Student Prize and the Trennert-Iverson scholarship by the Western History Association at the annual conference this year in Portland, Oregon. 

John Curry (History) presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) in San Diego on Oct. 28. The presentation, "Trans-Mediterranean Ottoman Naval Strategies in the Great Turkish War: The Case of Mezemorta Hüseyin Paşa (d. 1701)," was part of a broader panel that he organized on "Trans-Imperial…

Susan Lee Johnson (History) wrote Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), which received the Robert G. Athearn Award for the best book published on the 20th century West from the Western History Association.

Michelle Tusan (History) will begin her term as vice president/president-elect of the North American Conference on British Studies on Nov. 14.

John Curry (History) presented a paper entitled "Climate Crisis as Comparative World History: An Experimental Course Linking Antiquity, the Medieval Period, and the Seventeenth Century" at the Southeastern World History Association virtual conference Oct. 22. The paper fit well into the theme of the conference, which was "Crisis and Recovery…

Doris Morgan Rueda (History) has published a chapter, "The Dazed and Dangerous Delinquents of Sin City: Policing and Detaining Juvenile Delinquents in 20th Century Las Vegas," in the edited volume, History & Crime: A Transdisciplinary Approach (Emerald Publishing, 2021), edited by Thomas J Kehoe and Jeffrey E Pfeifer.