Mike Jarvis, associate professor, has been awarded an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for his project "Black Past Lives Matter: Digital Kormantin."

Josie Bready received a Mellon Fellowship in the Digital Humanities.

Shellie Clark published the article "Love, Letters, and the Institutions of Gender and Marriage in the Nineteenth Century: The Marriage of William Henry and Frances Seward” in the New York History Journal in its Suffrage Centennial Special Issue.

Marianne Kupin-Lisbin was awarded the Susan B. Anthony Dissertation Award by the Susan B. Anthony Institute. This award is given on an annual basis to the University of Rochester PhD candidate having completed (or nearly completed) the most distinguished dissertation in gender, sexuality, and/or women's studies.

Andrew Russo has won a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to conduct dissertation research in Rabat, Morocco, and Madrid, Spain. 

Kevin Sapere published an op-ed in The Washington Post.

Alice Wynd was the recipient of the 2021 University of Rochester Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student.

Shellie Clark, Carrie Knight, Lauren Davis, and Sarabeth Rambold (and mentor Professor Tom Slaughter) used materials from the Seward Family Archive to produce a video about Frances Seward for the Seward Project.

Eleanor Lenoe (BA '21) received the President's Award for the Humanities at the 2021 Undergraduate Research Expo for her paper "The Aum Affair: Censorship, Scholarship, and the Mass Media in Japanese Reactions to Terrorism,"

Debra Meyers (PhD '97), full professor at Northern Kentucky University, has just edited a book entitled Hating Girls: An Intersectional Survey of Misogyny (Brill, 2021). The paperback will be available next summer, and it will be free on JSTOR in January 2022.

David Pankenier (BA '68) sent in this story: "I graduated from the U of R in 1968. My professional interest in the history and cultures of East Asia in the earliest period began somewhat later. But while at the U of R the experience of taking courses from Profs. Hayden White and Norman O. Brown truly awakened me to the life of the mind and set me on the path. I can share one memorable occasion when on a whim, before Prof. White arrived for class one day, as a joke I wrote on the blackboard the stern warning to King Belshazzar, 'You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting' from the famous episode of the writing on the wall in the Book of Daniel: —Mene, mene tekel upharsin.— Blissfully unaware that I had misspelled 'tekel' as 'tenkel,' I took my seat and waited to see Prof. White’s reaction. When he arrived, he glanced at the blackboard, picked up an eraser, deleted the the errant 'n', and began the class."

Laura Sikes (PhD '16), a former student of Joan Rubin, has accepted a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University, Texarkana. Her teaching focuses include American History, African American History, and Women's and Gender Studies. In addition, she will take on the role of Director of the Red River Center for Regional History, which seeks to collect and preserve oral and social histories of the Ark-La-Tex area.

Eric Zimiles (BA '73) returned to his first love, teaching history, after a 40-year break. Last semester, he taught "Topics in the History of Qing China" at the LP2 program at the CUNY Graduate Center.