March 2022

Nik Overtoom’s most recent book review has been published. Uwe Ellerbrock, The Parthians: The Forgotten Empire. Routledge. 2021. For Ancient History Bulletin.

Nik Overtoom’s most recent article has been published: “Phriapatius.” Encyclopædia Iranica Online. The Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University. 2022.

Puck Brecher presented a research paper titled “Early Modern Japan’s Veterinary Medicine Makeover” at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.  

 L Heidenreich presented ‘Toward a Practice of Liberation: Feminism, Chicanismo and Catholicism in the United Farm Worker Movement’ at the Academic Showcase & GPSA Research Expo.

The Pritzker Military Museum and Library in Chicago will host a symposium “What is Military History Today?” on March 31 and April 1. Noriko Kawamura is invited to participate in a panel discussion on “Violence, Atrocity, and Restraint in War.” The symposium will be livestreamed but registration is required by March 28.

Sue Peabody participated in the plenary opening session of the Society for French Historical Studies in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the screening of the French documentary,Furcy, le procès de la liberté [Furcy: The Freedom Suit], based upon her award-winning book, Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies (Oxford UP, 2017). Together with the […]

MA student Victor Moore presented “A Historiographical Examination of the Causes of Trinidad and Tobago’s Black Power Revolution of 1970″ at the 16th Annual Conference of the University of Maryland History Graduate Student Association, with the theme this year of “Conflict, Protest, Insurrection, Coup.”  This presentation was via Zoom on Friday, March 18th .

Charles Weller gave an invited virtual lecture to The Political Psychology Committee of the Iranian Political Science Association on “History as Identity: Implications for Personal, Social and Political Psychology”, and had the privilege of being able to dialogue with scholars residing in Iran on how national and world histories can potentially serve efforts of conflict […]

Xiuyu Wang will be giving a presentation on April 14, 2022 at the Clark County Historical Museum as part of its Speaker Series.  

Jesse Spohnholz has won the 2022 Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award. This award honors faculty members who epitomize the highest level of excellence in the pursuit of the University’s goals. More information can be found at Showcase.