Jesse Spohnholz and Brenna Miller ran a workshop on “Teaching History for the 21st Century: Promoting Student-Centered learning Experiences in Large Introductory World History Courses,” on Saturday, March 28 at the American Historical Association’s 2025 Virginia Conference on Introductory History Courses, held in Richmond, VA.
Shiloh Green Soto is presenting a paper entitled, “Killing them with Kindness: Community Archives versus the Benevolence of Public Memory” at the National Council for Public History conference in Montreal, Quebec. The paper is about her creation of a public history guide on rural California’s San Joaquin Valley. She explores the consequences of benevolent history […]
James Schroeder received the Society for Military History Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grant Award and will present his paper “CIA Agent Michael Korzhan: Ukrainian Nationalist, Orthodox Priest, and Cold War Spy” at the SMH conference in Mobile, Alabama, at the end of March.
Matt Sutton gave the annual Milton Klein Lecture, this year entitled “The Scopes Monkey Trial and Rise of Fundamentalist Political Activism,” at the University of Tennessee on March 27, 2025.
James Schroeder has been selected to receive the 2025 College of Arts and Sciences Doctorate Student Achievement Award in the Humanities
Cassie Crisman has been awarded the Gloria Ricci Lothrop Fellowship at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. The one-month summer fellowship will allow Cassie to spend time examining the Robert Hine collection, vital to her dissertation research.
Andra Chastain was elected to be the secretary and chair-elect of the Southern Cone Studies section of the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH). CLAH is the main scholarly association for the study of Latin American history in the United States and is affiliated with the American Historical Association.
Puck Brecher presented a paper titled “Uses of the Useless: Wolf Lore, Wolf Worship, and Japanese Modernization” at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference in Columbus, OH.
Ray Matsumoto presented a paper titled “The Moral Economy of Abandonment: Popular Films and Texts on the Abandoned Japanese Settlers in Manchuria and Zainichi Koreans in Japan” at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference in Columbus, OH.
Sabrina González gave a talk “Schools as Laboratories: Pedagogy and Eugenics in Argentina” at the History of Science Colloquium in University of California, Los Angeles.