Accomplishments: Department of History
John Curry (History) traveled to the University of Munster in Germany to present as part of the Translation and Multilingualism in Mongol and Post-Mongol Eurasia workshop. He presented a paper titled, "Speaking Chinese, Translating Persian: Strategies of the Autograph Manuscript of Alī Akbar Khaṭāyī’s Book of China," as part of a panel…
Paul Werth (History) has received a grant from the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research for work in the Georgian State Historical Archive (Tbilisi) and the library of the Oriental Pontifical Institute (Rome) on the history of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the 19th-century Russian Empire.
On May 9, World Heritage USA, as part of its Monuments Toolkit program, released a Monumental Project Podcast interview with Susan Lee Johnson (History) titled "Kit Carson and Monuments of the West." Conducted by Noah Price ('21 BA ; '22 MA University College Dublin), the interview ranged across multiple representations of Christopher "Kit"…
Jeff Schauer (History) participated in a conference on "Neoliberalism, Race, and Empire" at the University of California, Berkeley, in honor of the retirement of James Vernon (Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History).
In reflecting on Vernon's influence on his own work, Schauer shared "Writing Africa through Zambia", and argued that…
Michelle Tusan (History) presented on the British History Today plenary panel at Queen Mary University in London.
Jeff Schauer (History) published "Empires and Environment: Africa's Colonial Wildlife Conservation Origins," an essay accompanying a Gale collection of primary sources, Environmental History: Colonial Policy and Global Development, 1896-1993.
Ph.D. candidate Analiesa (Annie) Delgado (History) won the Huggins-Quarles Award from the Organization of American Historians. The Huggins-Quarles Award supports graduate students to travel to archives for the completion of the Ph.D. dissertation. Delgado will use the award to conduct research at the National Archives for her dissertation about…
Michelle Tusan (History) was a panelist for the Chamber of Commerce Women's History Month event.
Michael J. Alarid (History) published "Crime and Punishment in a Nineteenth Century Western Community" in The Routledge History of Crime in America (Routledge, 2025).
Covering a broad chronology from the colonial era to the present, this volume reflects the diverse approaches, interests and findings of an international group of new and established…
Paul W. Werth (History) has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of a research inquiry entitled "Russia's Other Eastern Church: The Armenian Confession and the Romanov Empire," which explores the implication of Armenian Christianity in Tsarist Russia's imperial structures, geopolitical projects, and…
Michelle Tusan (History) published, "A Fictional Special Relationship," for a series on Britain and the U.S. presidency.
Noria Litaker's (History) recent book, "Bedazzled Saints: Catacomb Relics in Early Modern Bavaria," won the Gerald Strauss Prize awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society. The prize recognizes the best book published in English during the preceding year in the field of German Reformation history.