“Maintaining the Bar: Regulating European Barmaids in Colonial Calcutta and Rangoon” has been published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. In 1902 the government of India banned the employment of European women as barmaids in Calcutta and Rangoon. This article examines this intervention, proceeding from the premise that a close look at this […]
David Shier, Associate Dean of the Honors College at Washington State University congratulated Claire Thornton and her advisor, Dr. Lydia Gerber, for the high quality of Claire’s Honors thesis. Dr. Shier writes: “Your overall thesis performance (including both the written thesis and the presentation) was noted by the faculty reviewer and by your thesis advisor, […]
Dr. Kawamura, of the Department of History, WSU, will give an invited talk at the last session of the DIJ History and Humanities Study Group in 2016: Thursday, December 8 in Tokyo, Japan. Emperor Hirohito from the Pacific War to the Cold War. Emperor Showa, better known in the English-speaking world as Emperor Hirohito, has […]
Dr. Matthew Sutton will speak at Princeton University on December 8 at the American Political History Seminar. He will discuss his book “(Un)Holy Spies: Religion and American Espionage in World War II.” Dr. Sutton is an Edward R. Mayer Distinguished Professor of History.
The College of Arts and Sciences at WSU awarded David Bolingbroke a 2016 Boeing Graduate Fellowship in Environmental Studies. This fellowship provides him with $1,000 dollars research travel funding towards his dissertation. Congratulations, David! Bordering the Tri-Cities, Washington, Hanford is the largest nuclear cleanup site in the world. It once produced the United States’ plutonium stockpile during World […]
Ryan Booth’s book review has been published in Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History. “Hang Them All – George Wright and the Plateau Indian War” was written by Donald L. Cutler and examines the often forgotten chapter of the U.S. Army and Native American interactions in the antebellum American West. This article and book are […]
Associate Professor Raymond Sun writes Pearl Harbor article that was published in the Spokesman Review. Dr. Sun states: “The passage of the World War II generation is certainly cause for reflection – sorrow mixed with appreciation for its remarkable accomplishments. At the same time, the loss of our living connection to the attack on Pearl […]
Jennifer Binczewski has been awarded the 2016 John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Award from the American Catholic Historical Association. Her dissertation is titled “Solitary Sparrows: Widowhood and the Catholic Community in Post-Reformation England, 1570–1620.” Dr. Madga Teter, Chair of the American Catholic Historical Association’s Ellis Dissertation Award Committee writes: “On behalf of the American Catholic Historical […]
Dr. Phil Travis announced the publication of his first academic book, which was officially released on November 16, 2016. The book title is “Reagan’s War on Terrorism in Nicaragua: The Outlaw State.” Dr. Travis says: “This monograph was based on my PhD dissertation. I am, therefore, indebted to the guidance provided by some of the […]
New research by Jennifer Thigpen, associate professor of history and an expert on America’s foreign mission movement, demonstrates that, as American Protestant missionaries and their wives labored to bring Christianity to the region’s native inhabitants in the early nineteenth century, they also carefully built networks across a complex set of competing local, national and international […]