Jeff Schauer (History) attended the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies in Riverside, California. He presented a paper titled, “Friends for Zambia: Rhodesia, the making of a Zambia lobby, and the limits of solidarity, 1964-1974.” This paper examined efforts by the Zambian state and its allies to influence the…

Over the weekend of March 11-12, Susan Lee Johnson (History) gave lectures about the book Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West for the Tesoro Cultural Center's Historic Lectures Series. The Tesoro Cultural Center is a non-profit affiliated with The Fort Restaurant near Denver, and lecturers speak both at The Fort and at…

Susan Lee Johnson's (History) Western History Association presidential address, first delivered at the organization's annual conference last October, will be published in the spring 2023 issue of the Western Historical Quarterly. Advance access online is now available. 

John Haberstroh (History) has published an interview titled, "Making Monsters Beautiful: An Interview with Karen Dee Carpenter," in the Council for European Studies' online journal, EuropeNow. The interview explores Carpenter's (CSU Northridge) virtual reality opera project called "Beautiful Monsters," which retells the stories of famous ancient…

Paul W. Werth (History) has been designated a Fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in Uppsala for the spring semester of 2024. 

John Curry (History) organized and presented in a roundtable aimed at publicizing and discussing the progress made on a translation project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities at the Middle East Studies Association annual meeting in Denver, CO, on December 4. The project aims to publish an annotated translation of the …

Paul W. Werth (History) will be the Gerhard Casper fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for the spring semester of 2023. While residing in the German capital, he will work on research about Russian and Eurasian borders, territory, and sovereignty. 

Carlos S. Dimas (History) presented a paper, "An Engineered Garden: Hydrological Infrastructure in Northwestern Argentina, 1890-1910s," at the Society for the History of Technology conference in New Orleans, LA. The paper explores the role of engineers in altering the northwestern Argentine landscape to deliver water for irrigation and…

Carlos S. Dimas (History) had an article published, "History of the Sciences in Argentina: From Paleontologists to Psychiatrists, 1850s to 1910s," in the edited collection Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History The article offers an overview of the sciences in turn-of-the-century Argentina and places the region in a global context.

Susan Lee Johnson (History) was joined by UNLV faculty colleagues Michael Alarid, William Bauer, Raquel Casas, Kendra Gage, Michael Green, Andy Kirk, Mark Padoongpatt, Tyler Parry, and Grace Wong-Padoongpatt — and by a host of UNLV grad students — at the Western History Association conference in San Antonio last week. Generous support for the…

Analiesa Delgado (History), a Ph.D. student, recently presented her article: "There is No O'odham Word for Wall," on a panel titled: "Surveillance, Violence, and Removal in the Latinx West," at this year's Western Historical Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas.

Analiesa Delgado (History), Ph.D. student, was awarded the Western History Association Louise Pubols Public History Prize for her recent work in public history at the Western History Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas.