Greetings from the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis! This newsletter offers an update about our faculty and students, followed by links to recent news items about our various activities and achievements.

We have welcomed seven new faculty members to our ranks in recent years. Our most recent hire is Nataliia Laas, a Soviet historian with interests in environmental history. She joins three other recent hires at the assistant level: Anne Schult, a modern Europeanist investigating refugees in the 20^th century; Marjan Wardaki, a South Asianist interested in the global history of science; and Dalen Wakeley-Smith, an Americanist writing about Roma and race-making. We have also added three full professors. Steve Hindle, a historian of early modern Britain, took up his position as the inaugural Derek Hirst Chair in 2022. Jonathan Judaken, hired in 2023, is our new Goldstein Chair in Jewish History and Thought. And Steve Miles, a historian of early modern China, is now back with us after spending a few years at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.ms are a successful bunch overall, doing everything from publishing books and running research centers to working as chairs, directors, school principals, and editors.

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