History
Jeffrey Gould, Rudy Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington, has been selected as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., for 2012-13. Gould, whose research deals with Central American social movements, ethnic conflicts and political violence, will spend the yearlong residence working on a book about politics and grass-roots social movements in the Salvadoran revolution of the 1970s.
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The most recent issue of American Historical Review includes articles on piracy in the Indian Ocean, life on the frontiers of the British Empire, prostitutes in 19th-century Japan and U.S. imperialism, as well as a conversation on the circulation of information across time and space.
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In the December 2011 issue of the Indiana Magazine of History, historian James Capshew offers the early life story of Indiana University's beloved president and chancellor Herman B Wells. Relying on research for his forthcoming 2012 biography, "Herman B Wells: The Promise of the American University," Capshew looks at Wells' childhood and early college career.
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The Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University has established a new fellowship to support master's degree candidates, thanks to a $240,000 donation by Katrina vanden Heuvel along with her husband, Stephen F. Cohen, an IU alumnus and a pre-eminent scholar of the Soviet Union and Russia.
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While overseas study courses frequently take students to fascinating destinations, a unique new Indiana University course is making Berlin, Germany, of one of Europe's most significant capitals, not just the setting but also its key subject.
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The most recent issue of the American Historical Review includes five articles dealing with global, transnational or cross-cultural historical experiences, ranging from the collapse of empires in Southeast Asia between 1250 and 1400 to the modern-day globalization of prison history.
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