A French translation of Meyer Distinguished Professor in History Sue Peabody’s multi-prize-winning book, Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies (Oxford UP, 2017) has just been published as Les enfants de Madeleine: Famille, liberté, secrets et mensonges dans les colonies françaises de l’océan indien, translated and adapted by Pierre H. […]
Over the past two months, the WSU Department of History has enjoyed hosting Saltanat Mukatayeva, a doctoral student from the Department of Religious and Cultural Studies at al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Working with Dr. Charles Weller as her foreign advisor, along with support from Dr. Karen Phoenix and Dr. Brenna Miller, Saltanat conducted research and […]
Dr. Matthew Sutton has published a new article in the Washington Post!
Dr. Ray Sun has partnered with doctoral student Samantha Edgerton to share the untold story of Washington State University’s “Fallen Cougars” of World War II.
Raymond Sun, an associate professor in the Department of History and a specialist in the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, will show the historical parallels and roots of current official attempts to restrict the number of refugees admitted to the United States by presenting an overview of the United States’ unwelcoming policy and […]
Democracy Now!, an independent global news source, has shared their recent interview with Dr. Andra Chastain. Assistant Professor Chastain spoke on the history of the Chilean transit system and the civil unrest that we’ve seen continue to escalate in Chile.
See Professor Matt Sutton’s TIME magazine article below about the U.S. recruitment of missionary spies! Furthermore, Dr. Sutton’s new book, Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the U.S. During the Second World War (New York: Basic Books).
Dr. Sue Peabody has been selected as a fellow to the Camargo Foundation residential program in Cassis, France, beginning this fall. She will be working on her sabbatical project, a new book entitled “The Failure of the Succès: Anatomy of a Slave Smuggling Voyage.” Congratulations Dr. Peabody and enjoy your time away!
J. T. Menard, who graduated with his MA this Spring under the supervision of Rob McCoy, has accepted a full-time faculty position in the history department at Yakima Valley College. This is a tenure track position, located at YVC’s satellite campus in Grandview, WA. Congratulations J.T.!
Mandy Link (PhD, 2015), who worked with Dr. Ray Sun, recently published her dissertation, “Remembrance of the Great War in the Irish Free State, 1914–1937”, as a book!