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 […]
The team of five students advised by Ken Faunce, won the WSU Global Case Competition. The theme in conjunction with the United Nations was “Arbitrary Detention in the U.S.” The team looked at the debtor’s prison concept. The team highlighted the issue and then came up with solutions to the problem. Eighty students competed. By […]
Jesse Spohnholz’s article “Archiving and Narration in Post-Reformation Germany and the Netherlanders” was published in the Past and Present, 2016 Supplement. The article offers an example for how the ‘literary turn’ and the more recent ‘archival turn’ speak to Reformation history. For the next three months, the article is available for free download. “Past & […]
Professor and Associate Director, John Wolff, of the School of the Environment, is giving a Roots of Contemporary Issues-sponsored lecture on Wednesday, Nov 9, 7pm, CUB 220 (Senior Ballroom). The lecture is titled “Volcanoes, Climate, and People: Natural vs. Anthropogenic Causes of Global Change.” This lecture is also in partnership with the WSU Cougar Historical […]
“War and Terrorism in Historical, Political Contexts” will be discussed in a free presentation November 7 at 4:30 p.m. in Todd Hall, Room 216. This is in conjunction with the WSU Common Reading of “I Am Malala” for five campuses in 2016-2017. Vist WSU News to read the complete article.
Dr. Lawrence Hatter will give a talk November 3 on his forthcoming book, “Citizens of Convenience: The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U. S. – Canadian Border” at the University of Missouri’s Kinder Institute for Constitutional Democracy. See the UM Colloquium Series. He received his M.A. in History from University of Missouri and […]
Dr. Mandy Link, who earned her PhD in World History in 2015 at WSU, is a guest lecturer for the Honors 380 class November 3, at 6 p.m. in the Elmina White Honors Hall Lounge on the WSU campus. The title of the lecture is “A Foolish Idea? Building the Irish National War Memorial and […]