December 2016

Dr. Ashley Wright’s article published

“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 […]

Undergrad Claire Thornton’s Honors thesis receives “Pass With Distinction” award

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. Noriko Kawamura at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)

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 […]

PhD Candidate David Bolingbroke, awarded 2016 Boeing Graduate Fellowship in Environmental Studies

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 […]

PhD candidate Ryan Booth, reviews “George Wright and the Plateau Indian War”

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 […]

Pearl Harbor legacy examined

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 […]