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Lydia Walker Guest of AHA's Podcast, "History in Focus"
History Prof. Lydia Walker discusses international advocacy for Tibet on the part of the US and India in the early Cold War and how those efforts resulted in a sort of humanitarian commodification…

Inaugural Lecture Given by Prof. Mytheli Sreenivas
Prof. Mytheli Sreenivas gave an Inaugural Lecture, "Making Sense of Tangled Pasts: Reproductive Politics, Feminisms, and History," on February 22nd. The lecture was in celebration of her promotion…

Conference Held to Honor David Brakke
More than two dozen scholars from all over the country (and England) convened at LSU from Feb. 15 to 17th, to celebrate Prof. David Brakke at a conference in his honor. The "New Approaches to…

Congratulations to Rob Williams!
Congratulations to Rob Williams on successfully defending his dissertation. The title of his dissertation is "The Airborne Mafia: Organizational Culture and Institutional Change in the US…

Christopher Nichols Installed as Woody Hayes Chair
(from Ohio State News by Meimei Tannehill:)
Christopher McKnight Nichols formally commenced his role as the Wayne…

Congratulations to Cody Patton
Congratulations to Cody Patton on accepting a tenure track assistant professor of Modern American History position at Montana State University Billings. Cody will be relocating to Montana this…

New Book Review by James Esposito
James Esposito has a new book review of The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terror of Total War by Susan R. Grayzel in H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social…

Margaret Newell Receives Mellon Grant
Congratulations to Prof. Margaret Newell on receiving a research grant of $492,000 from the Mellon Foundation for her project Native Americans and African Americans in and out of the U.S. Body…

Congratulations to Geoffrey Parker
Congratulations to Geoffrey Parker on publication of, "Armada, The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance in 1588." The book, co-authored by Colin Martin, was published by Yale University…