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IU historian awarded fellowship to work at Institute for Advanced Study

Jeffrey Gould

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.   Full Story >>

History journal examines piracy, imperialism, anti-slavery struggles

AHR December 2011

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.   Full Story >>

State history journal sheds light on childhood of Herman B Wells

Wells and Dog

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.   Full Story >>

Endowed fellowship honors former Russian and East European Institute professor and his student

Cohen and vanden Heuvel

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.   Full Story >>

Historic German capital of Berlin is setting, subject of new IU class

Glass Dome of the Reichstag

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.   Full Story >>

American Historical Review: global, transnational and cross-cultural perspectives

The American Historical Review

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.   Full Story >>