Brad Johnson has received an American Jewish Archive Fellowship to pursue his dissertation research on American-Israeli tensions during the first years after Israel's founding.

Professor Kathryn Barbier has been elected Vice-President of the North American Society for Intelligence History.

On A &S Vision TV, Professor Anne Marshall talks of her research and the U.S. Grant Presidential Library. Click at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kChoEs07FP4

Amber Morgan Gill published a piece, "The Fabric of Our Nation" in Commonplace. The Journal of Early American Life. Read it at http://commonplace.online/article/the-fabric-of-our-nation/

Xavier Sivels earned the 2022 Study the South Research Fellowship, given by the Center for the Study of the South. He will be pursuing dissertation research at the Center, which examines the interesections of popular music, Black culture, and queer identities.

Fraser Livingston and Colin Campbell will receive their PhDs at winter commencement. Campbell's dissertation is titled "Cause for Alarm: Punk Rock Politics, Race, and the Problem of Irony in America." "Losing Longleaf: Forestry and Conservation in the Southern Coastal Plain" is Livingston's work.

Professor Andrew Lang's book, A Contest of Civilization, has been designated a 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Book. The Choice list is to guide library purchases for public libraries across the United States.

Professor Stephen Brain is prominently cited in Ukraine Has Seen Centuries of Conflict- https://www.history.com/news/ukraine-timeline-invasions and in https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/12/what-victory-day-means-russian-identity/

Xavier Sivels has won a Fellowship from the Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies for the 2022-2023 academic year.

Jeremy Montgomery has received a Duke University History of Medicine Library Grant

Charles Pellegrin, (PhD, 2005) has been elected President, Louisiana Historical Association. Pellegrin presently teaches a Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA.

Professor Courtney Thompson's book, An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America was named a finalist for Cheiron's 2022 Book Prize.

Phi Alpha Theta Award Winners, announced at April 19 Banquet:

Martha Swain Outstanding Scholar Award 

Katherine Albrecht

M. Shannon Mallard Award 

Bailey Braswell

George Robson Prize 

Tucker Shope

William E. Parrish Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award

Aaron Jackson and Bethany Bryant

Congratulations to History Majors Katherine Albrecht, Michael Bourgeois and Jonathan Franz on becoming members of Phi Beta Kappa.

Professor Stephen Brain discusses the end of World War II and Russian Identity in the Washington Post. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/12/what-victory-day-means-russian-identity/

Ph.D. Student Patricia McCourt awarded a Kentucky Historical Society Research Fellowship to search drug addiction.

Ryan Reynolds selected as member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Military History.

Professor Alexandra Hui's short piece, "Elevator Sounds," appears in the April 2022 edition of the AHA's Perspectives on History.

Congratulations Lucas Wilder on completing your Ph.D.

Maddie Arbogast, Kayla Jordan, Jordan Wesley, Nathan Gatlin, Bethany Bryant, Trevor Cole, and Jackson Parrish will receive MA degrees at the May 2022 graduation.