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Dr. Katherine Aaslestad was recently named a 2016 Benedum Distinguished scholar, an honor which recognizes her high caliber of research and scholarly activity. 

Kate Kelsey Staples, associate chair of the West Virginia University Department of History, was named the recipient of the 2016 Caperton Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing.

Dr. Robert Blobaum brought in the new year with a book publication. His book, "A Minor Apocalypse: Warsaw during First World War" (Cornell Press, 2017), is the first history of Warsaw in World War I to appear in English. 

From the cover: "In A Minor Apocalypse, Robert Blobaum explores the social and cultural history of Warsaw's "forgotten war" of 1914–1918. Beginning with the bank panic that accompanied the outbreak of the Great War, Blobaum guides his readers through spy scares, bombardments, mass migratory movements, and the Russian evacuation of 1915. Industrial collapse marked only the opening phase of Warsaw’s wartime economic crisis, which grew steadily worse during the German occupation. Requisitioning and strict control of supplies entering the city resulted in scarcity amid growing corruption, rapidly declining living standards, and major public health emergencies." 
Link to Cornell Press for more information: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100226260

The WVU History Department presents: 

Katherine Aaslestad, Professor of History, recently contributed to the international workshop “The Persistence of Civic Identities in the Netherlands, 1747-1848” at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.  An internationally renowned scholar on civic identity, Aaslestad was invited by Professors Henk te Velde and Judith Pollmann in Leiden to serve on the Expert Committee for the workshop to contribute her expertise on German Central Europe and provide transnational perspectives on the research projects presented at the meeting. The experience offered an exciting opportunity to be part of international collaboration and a research team that focuses on an area crucial to her own research.