Carlos S. Dimas (History) authored a book, Poisoned Eden: Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problem of Public Health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865-1908 through the University of Nebraska Press. The book analyzes the social, political, and cultural effects of three cholera epidemics, in 1868, 1886, and 1895, that shook the northwestern…

Michelle Tusan (History) received an NEH Fellowship to support her book project, The Last Treaty: The Middle Eastern Front and the End of the First World War.

Michelle Tusan (History) published in the Journal of Modern History, "The Concentration Camp as Site of Refuge: The Rise of the Refuge Camp and the Great War in the Middle East."

John Curry (History) gave a virtual invited presentation to the Anglo-Turkish Society in the United Kingdom titled "The Legacy of Mezemorta Hüseyin Paşa: Corsair, Captain, Ottoman Grand Admiral." The Anglo-Turkish Society is a learned society of scholars that promotes scholarship on Turkey and strengthening Turkish-U.K. relations. The talk was…

John Curry (History) published a chapter, "Sufi Spaces and Practices" in A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul, a volume edited by Shirine Hamadeh and Cigdem Kafescioglu. The chapter, which was dedicated to the urban history of Istanbul, it detailed the function of mystical organizations and religious institutions in the development of the…

John Curry (History) joined a National Endowment for the Humanities grant application as part of a project team for the "Khataynameh ("Book of China") Translation Project." Headed by Kaveh Hemmat of Benedictine University, the proposal has just been funded at $195,764, and will produce an edited volume, translation and commentary of…

Amanda Belarmino (Hospitality) and her co-author have published an article entitled "Can peer-to-peer accommodations act as lodging a stepping-stone for mega-events?" in Tourism Management Perspectives. This article examines the role of peer-to-peer accommodations like Airbnb in helping mid-sized cities host mega-events by examining the…

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.