“I never thought I’d have the opportunity to travel across the world studying and researching something that I loved,” says Donovan scholarship recipient Ellie Anderson. The scholarship allowed the history major to spend six weeks in Austria, conducting research on women, royal power, and enlightenment in eighteenth-century Vienna.

Nabil Matar is recognized for his decades of research on "cultural engagements and the meeting of civilizations."

Vanessa Goodthunder graduated from the University in May and is developing a Dakota language app.

Meet alumna Vanessa Goodthunder, an American Indian graduate determined to give back to her community.

Longtime film buff, John Moret, was delighted to discover that his history major prepared him to understand the historical relevance of global cinema. Now film programmer for the Trylon Microcinema in Minneapolis, Moret curates movies of the past for audiences of today--something that he could not do without a sound historical perspective.

The Immigration History Research Center has taken the lead in creating a public syllabus on the history of immigration to the US. The hope is that ordinary citizens can better understand the complexities--and myths--of our immigration past and present.

The Guantánamo Public Memory Project made a profound impact as it made the University of Minnesota into a central hub for incarceration research and solutions.

Donovan Scholarship recipient Michaela Bunke recently traveled to Vienna, Austria to study some of history’s most renowned intellectuals. Not only did she emerge from this experience with a greater understanding of her research topic, but she also found that her focus on this particular area of history actually reinforced a framework for comprehending global historical phenomena.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is sponsoring a Sawyer Seminar for 2017–18 that promises to examine the conflicts that arise from varying relations to land.