The Department would like to congratulate Dr. Noriko Kawamura who has been selected as the Arnold M. and Atsuko Craft Professor! The professorship lasts for 3 years and her term begins this August! The Craft Professorship is intended to help assist professors with the funding of scholarly, creative, and instructional activity! Congratulations Professor Kawamura!
PhD student Ryan Booth has been awarded a James H. Bradley Fellowship from the Montana Historical Society for dissertation research! Congratulations Ryan, keep up the awesome work! Learn more about the Fellowship!
Dr. Charles Weller was one of several international plenary speakers for the 5th Annual “Farabi Forum” at Kazakh National University (KNU, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Apr 3-4). His talk on “Al-Farabi’s World Historical Travels: From Central Asia and the Middle East, to Europe and Russia, and Back Again” was featured among scholars and dignitaries from Turkey, Syria, […]
Dr. Jennifer Schaefer, currently located at WSUV, has been awarded the 2018 RCI Postdoc Research Grant to support work on her book manuscript, “Critical Commemorations: Memorializing Rebels, Martyrs, and Heroes in Argentina, 1966-1983.”
Dr. Ray Sun has been chosen to receive a summer fellowship from the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation! Dr. Sun has been developing a digital exhibit of the research he has been exploring over the last two semesters that connect the history of Washington State University to World War II. Congratulations Dr. Sun!
We would like to applaud our undergraduate students who participated in the Showcase for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities. We would further like to recognize two students who received awards that were mentored by our own Dr. Lydia Gerber. Krista Brutman received a Gray Award, abstract titled “Left-Over Women: Collectivist Feminism in Modern China.” The […]