On the Hill: A Bicentennial History of Hamilton College, written by Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History Maurice Isserman, received the 2012 Arline Custer Memorial Award for books from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC). The award was presented on Oct. 27 in Richmond, Va.

Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History Maurice Isserman was a speaker at “Moses Finley and Politics,” a conference to mark the centenary of M. I. Finley’s birth, on Sept. 29 at Columbia University.

Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi was invited to present a paper, 'Seeing Women at Work: the Jyoti Sangh and Pranlal Patel in Ahmedabad, 1937," as part of the Madhusudan and Kiran C. Dhar Indian Studies Program at Indiana University on Sept. 20.

Cambridge University Press has just released Episcopal Power and Ecclesiastical Reform in the German Empire: Tithes, Lordship, and Community, 950-1150, the first monograph by Assistant Professor of History John Eldevik.

Professor of History Shoshana Keller was invited to conduct a Junior Scholar Training Workshop for the University of Illinois Russian, East European and Eurasian Center June 18-20. The workshop for graduate students focused on methods of researching Soviet Central Asian history. Keller also conducted research on childhood and child labor in Soviet Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History Maurice Isserman joined author Peter Edelman on June 4 for “Poverty in America,” a discussion of the politics and persistence of poverty in the United States, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.

Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, is the keynote speaker at “What’s become of ‘The Other America’ - The War on Poverty Then and Now,” a forum examining poverty now and half a century ago. The afternoon program is hosted by Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) on Thursday, May 24, from 3 to 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History Maurice Isserman has been elected to the Society of American Historians (SAH) in recognition of the literary and scholarly distinction of his historical writing.

Professor of History Douglas Ambrose has been awarded a Fulbright scholar grant to teach American studies in Croatia for the 2012-2013 academic year.

Alfred Kelly, the Edgar B. Graves Professor of History, has accepted an invitation to teach a summer course in the School of History at Renmin University of China in Beijing as part of their International Summer School.