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Daniel Waqar (@daniel_waqar) was named a 2025 Emerging Scholar by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, which supports the final year of writing a dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence. Currently a Ph.D candidate in History at Tufts University, Waqar's research examines British colonial-era unlawful assembly laws in colonial and postcolonial South Asia, and their continued use by governments around the world today. 

Salvatore Cipriano published his book The University of Scotland, Ireland, and New England: Contested Seminaries in December 2024 with Boydell Press. 

Antoinette Burton recently wrote an op-ed, "History is the Front Line in the Struggle for Democracy," for Common Dreams

David Harris Sacks recently published an essay entitled “The Religious Beliefs of Richard, Oliver and Edmond Hakluyt: The Word of the Cross,” in the Journal of the Hakluyt Society.

Sascha Auerbach recently published The Overseer State: Slavery, Indenture, and Governance in the British Empire, 1812-1916, in Cambridge University Press's "Critical Perspectives on Empire" Series.

Chana Revell Kotzin recently published “My Brother’s Keeper? Church of England responses to Jewish Refugees from Europe, 1933-1939,” in Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1810s-1940s.

Lou Roper (@roperlou.bsky.social) recently published a piece for the Global Maritime History blog on recent and forthcoming publications focused on the Guinea Company and the 17th century English 'empire.' You can read the piece here. 

Wendy Ugolini (@wugolini.bsky.social) recently published Wales in England, 1914-1945, which explores how 'Welshness' was imagined, performed, and mobilised in England during and between the two world wars. 

Devoney Looser's non-fiction book of essays, Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane, will be published on 2 September 2025 by St. Martin's Press. It includes sections on her writings, life, and legacy, including new historical research findings on her brothers' public abolition activism and her prominent collateral descendants' work in the anti-suffrage movement

Karl Ittmann's new book Fueling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945 is now available from Oxford University Press!

Erin Fetterly was recently interviewed for the Birbeck website about balancing a book deal and her studies as a PhD student. Her book Women Who Kill recently won the True Crime Awards Reader's Choice True Crime Book of the Year. 

Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972 by Averill Earls is available now from Temple University Press!