Brian Stack, who just completed his MA and is entering our PhD program, has received a Western History Association Graduate Student Prize. This includes membership in the organization and a free ride to the upcoming conference (October in Portland). Read more about the award
Associate Professor Brigit Farley will, by popular demand, be giving the College of Arts and Sciences Convocation address at WSU-Tri Cities for the second year in a row.
Professor Sue Peabody writes: I am pleased to announce that History major junior Samantha Rintoulis the winner of the campus-wide WSU Vancouver Library Research Excellence Award for her paper, “Railroaded: Race Relations in Twentieth-Century Oregon.” Her paper examines two legal cases in which black railroad employees were accused and convicted of murder during the Great […]
Associate Professor Jeff Sanders has received a $12,500 Berry Family Excellence Fellows Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences. The coversheet for his proposal – “Tributaries: A Regional Digital Environmental Research and Teaching Collaboration” follows. Jeff also reports that on April 22 he gave an invited lecture to the Center for Environmental Research, Education […]
Professor Matt Sutton reports that he has been appointed an OAH “Distinguished Lecturer” for 2015-2018.