Susan Lee Johnson (History) was co-organizer, with Karl Jacoby of Columbia University, of a conference honoring William Cronon of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the occasion of his retirement. Cronon was Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies. The conference, Common…

Michael Green (History) received the Superior Achievement Award from the Illinois State Historical Society for his book, Lincoln and Native Americans, published by Southern Illinois University Press.

Michael Green (History) recently presented as part of a roundtable on "The Big 1862" at the Organization of American Historians conference in Boston. C-SPAN filmed the roundtable and plans to broadcast it.

William Bauer (History) participated on the panel "Retracing The Oregon Trail" at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Boston. Bauer, along with Margaret Huettl, '16 PhD History, discussed developing and including the representation of Indigenous People in the latest version of the computer game The Oregon Trail. Bauer…

Jeff Schauer (History) participated in the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies. His paper, "'Sitting Like Robots Doing Extremely Nothing': Expatriates, Work, Loyalty, and Neocolonial Power in 1960s Africa" juxtaposed debates about "model whites" in Kenya, dual loyalties, and meaningless labor in Zambia, and the…

John Curry (History) has worked as one of a team of translators of the first printed books in Ottoman Turkish, dating from 1732. The Cihannuma, or Cosmographia of Katip Celebi (d. 1657), later combined with the work of the Arab geographer Abu Bakr al-Dimashqi and published by the Hungarian convert Ibrahim Muteferrika, was an encyclopedic…

Carlos S. Dimas (History) gave a talk,  "Poisoned Eden: The Practice of Governance and Autonomy in the Cholera Epidemic of 1886- 1887 in Northwestern Argentina," at the history department of the University of Melbourne (Australia). The talk was based on Dimas's recently published book Poisoned Eden: Cholera Epidemics, State-Building,…

John Curry (History) was a featured panelist on a March 5 radio program on KCEP 88.1. "The Ottoman Empire and Tolerance in Society" was hosted by Mujahid Ramadan and also included professor Bojan Petrovic of the University of California, Irvine. The program discussed various aspects of Ottoman culture from its origins in Central Asia to the legacy…

Doris Morgan Rueda (History) accepted a postdoctoral fellow position at the Center for Law & History at Stanford Law School for 2022-24. 

Paul Werth (History) has published an article, "What is a ‘Minority’ in an Imperial Formation? Thoughts on the Russian Empire,” in the journal Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 41.3 (2021): 325-31.

Teddy Uldricks (History) provided background information and analysis in a two-hour interview by KLAS-TV channel 8 reporters concerning a recently discovered collection of letters written by a World War II serviceman.

Doris Morgan Rueda (History) was selected for a research fellowship from the Arizona Historical Society to conduct research at the Tucson branch of the Arizona Historical Society Archives.