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History major Mishel Kondi's HIST 600 junior thesis "How Doctor Zhivago Made its Way Around the World" was recently published in The Birch, the first undergraduate publication in the US devoted exclusively to Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian studies.

Louisa Burnham has been awarded the H. P. Kraus Fellowship for short-term research at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. She will spend a month in Fall 2018 during her academic leave consulting manuscripts in the Mellon Alchemical Collection at the Beinecke for her current book project on Limoux Negre, a fourteenth-century alchemical heretic in southern France.

Maggie Clinton has been awarded a grant through the Summer Stipend program of the National Endowment for the Humanities for her new project, “Power and Petroleum in China and the Western Pacific, 1870-Present.” She will spend July and August conducting research in China and the United States, and writing the chapter of the book addressing cultural and environmental aspects of oil development during the 1950s and 1960s.

Febe Armanios recently published "Halal Food, A History" with Boğaç Ergene. Their book explores the most relevant topics related to halal food including its legal roots, discussions over meat and intoxicants, debates over regulations and manufacturing, and halal's current meanings in ethical and culinary terms.