Jesse Spohnholz was elected Vice President/President-Elect of the Sixteenth Century Society, an interdisciplinary scholarly organization devoted to the study of the early modern era of history (1450-1750). While there, he also presented on “Utopian Thinking in the Sixteenth Century; Utopian Thinking Today,” comparing utopianisms adopted by peoples of Europe, Peru, Mexico, and Brazil at the dawn of globalization as part of a panel he organized titled “Rewriting Early Modern History in an Age of Populism.”