Here's a fun piece about Prof. Vanessa Gorman's very cool class HIST/WMNS 125: Powerful Queens and Warrior Women in the Premodern World! newsroom.unl.edu/announce/te…

Join faculty from Classics, Religious Studies, History, and Judaic Studies for an interdisciplinary roundtable about Christopher Nolan's film "The Odyssey"! Oct. 1 at 5 pm Nebraska Union's Swanson Auditorium Details: go.unl.edu/wr4k @unlcas @unlhistory @UNLincoln

Congratulations to Bedross Der Matossian! The book he co-edited, "The Concentration Camps of the Armenian Genocide," will be published by Bloomsbury Publishing on Oct. 29! Details: go.unl.edu/03vn

As we begin our fall semester, we also like to reflect on History's accomplishments and events from the past year as noted in our 2025-2026 Annual Newsletter! history.unl.edu/annual-depar…

Obituary | Benjamin G. Rader: go.unl.edu/4vbp #Nebraska #UNL #LNK @UNLHistory @unlcas

Congratulations to the 14 CAS faculty selected to receive funding from the Office of Research and Innovation's Book Fellowship and Manuscript Workshop Program, Research and Innovation Grants Program, and Invited Scholar Grants Program! Recipients and project names: go.unl.edu/250i @unl_clrs @unlmodlang @unlchemistry @unlhistory @unlsbs @unlresearch

Here is my latest opinion piece in the @Jerusalem_Post on the latest assaults by ultra-orthodox religious Jews on the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Armenian community facing rising attacks, religious harassment | The Jerusalem Post jpost.com/opinion/article-90…

Thank you, @UNLincoln, for publishing this piece.

Congratulations to Bedross Der Matossian, who was appointed director of genocide research at the Zoryan Institute! Details: go.unl.edu/q7mb

I am deeply honored and humbled to be appointed as the Director of Genocide Research at the @ZoryanInstitute. I accept this role with humility and with a steadfast commitment to advancing the Institute's mission. Link: zoryaninstitute.org/professo… @unlcas @UNLincoln @UNLHistory

School of Computing assistant professor You-Jin Kim is collaborating with @UNLHistory research assistant professor Donna Anderson on a new project that involves digitizing historic materials related to the Japanese-American community in the tri-state area. starherald.com/news/local/ar…

Here is my piece in @Jerusalem_Post on Israel's decision to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Genocide recognition not enough: Israel must do more for Armenians | The Jerusalem Post jpost.com/opinion/article-90…

Honored to attend the Guggenheim Fellowship reception organized by the @GuggFellows at the @harvardclubny. It was a privilege to celebrate the extraordinary achievements of this year's fellows. @UNLincoln @unlcas @UNLHistory .

Tomorrow, catch James Garza's lecture on Gilded Age criminal H.H. Holmes, "America's First Serial Killer," on C-SPAN 2 at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.! If you miss the live show, the recording will be posted at go.unl.edu/cspan2garza. @unlcas @cspan

Julian Gillilan, a doctoral candidate in @UNLHistory, has accepted a Fulbright-Mach Award from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program for 2026-27. He will travel to Vienna, Austria, to perform dissertation research in various archives. go.unl.edu/viuh #Nebraska #UNL @unlcas

Congratulations to Lexus Root, Brianna Rose DeValk, Dana Hanley and Henrique Cassol Leal on being named digital humanities fellows for summer 2026! The program supports their research, scholarship, professional development, and creative production skills. “Our goal with this program is to both support DH student projects and foster meaningful cross-disciplinary collaboration," Carrie Heitman, director of the Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship, said. "So many technical barriers are lower now than ever before. Students have access to things like AI-driven coding assistants that can really accelerate project development. I’m excited to help support another group of extraordinary scholars this summer." Root is a second-year doctoral student in English at Nebraska. He also received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Nebraska. His fellowship project aims to develop a computational measure of sexual explicitness and violence in mid-20th century gay erotic fiction, relying on a corpus of thousands of 'gay pulp' novels. DeValk is a fourth-year doctoral student in history at Nebraska. She received a Bachelor of Arts in history pedagogy from California Lutheran University and a Master of Arts in history from Minnesota State University, Mankato. This summer, she will work on “Citizenship Taken: Recovering Married Women’s Citizenship on the Northern Great Plains, 1907-1967,” a relational database that brings together seemingly disparate historical records to reconstruct the identities and stories of American-born women whose birthright citizenship was taken following their marriage to an unnaturalized immigrant during the early 20th century. Hanley is a first-year master's student in modern languages at Nebraska. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Germanic languages and literatures and a Bachelor of Science in education from the University of Kansas. Her Fellowship project, “‘Forever Undivided’: Mapping Connections Between the Failed 1848 Revolution in Schleswig-Holstein and Successful Civic Institutions in Nebraska,” utilizes ArcGIS StoryMaps to create a digital public history platform. Her work traces migration from Schleswig-Holstein following and documents the subsequent emergence of German-American civic institutions in Nebraska. Leal is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Nebraska. He received a Master of Arts in philosophy from the University of Missouri–St. Louis and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). His fellowship project, “The AI Moral Status Atlas: Mapping Concepts, Positions, and Argument Pathways in Contemporary Debate,” builds an “atlas” of key concepts, positions, arguments and objections in the debate about whether and how AI systems could have moral status. They will spend the summer in a shared workspace at the Dinsdale Family Learning Commons under Heitman's mentorship. At a mid-summer project showcase, they will receive feedback from faculty and staff. In September, the students will present their final projects in a public DH Afternoons event sponsored by the center. @UNLHistory @UNLModLang @UNLPhilosophy @CDRH_UNL @ANTH_UNL

Congratulations to Laura K. Muñoz, who was awarded Honorable Mention (Book Award) by the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies for "Desert Dreams: Mexican Arizona and the Politics of Educational Equality"! The award recognizes an outstanding new book in the field of Chicana and Chicano Studies. Muñoz's accomplishment was celebrated in April at the organization's annual meeting. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, the book chronicles seventy-five years of Mexican American efforts to attain educational equality in Arizona, from its territorial period in the nineteenth century to the post–World War II era. @unlhistory @pennpress

Congrats @UNL_McNair Scholar & Chancellor's Scholar Nayla Torres Ruiz who graduated with highest distinction on May 9 with a BA in anthropology, history, & Spanish. She conducted research with Dr. Isabel Velázquez, Modern Languages. So proud of you Nayla!👏🎓#UNL #GoBigGrad

Congratulations, Jaqueline! #GoBigGrad "Throughout college, I served as an Honors Peer Mentor and have also worked as a Peer Mentor, Undergraduate Assistant, and Intern for the William H. Thompson Scholars Learning Community. In addition, I was the Co-Founder and Treasurer of the History Club. I have also held several leadership positions within my sorority, Lambda Theta Nu Sorority, Inc., including President. "I am excited to begin working with the Lincoln Police Department in the Victim Assistance Unit as a Victim Advocate while exploring graduate programs." @unlhistory

Congratulations, Luke! #GoBigGrad What does graduating from Nebraska mean to you?  "Being forever tied to my home state regardless of where I go." Transformational moment(s) "Working with Dr. Jagodinsky and Dr. Thomas in the Digital Legal History Lab ignited my love for legal history." Involvement "Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, Husker Vote Coalition, Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honors, Omicron Delta Epsilon Economics Honors, NFA Lincoln-Douglas Debate, University Conduct Board, University Honors Program, French Club" After graduation "Working in Washington, DC as a paralegal for plaintiff-side impact litigation. I am most looking forward to finding ways to stay intellectually engaged outside of the classroom." Fellow graduates you are proud of "Zein Saleh - I am incredibly proud of his superior intellect, strong sense of self, and ability to be an amazing friend. Reem Ahmed - I am incredibly proud of her ability to form community and advocate for the causes others will not." From: Omaha, NE @unlpolisci @unlhistory