Dr. Tracey Hanshew’s article “‘Here she comes wearin’ them britches!’ Saddles, Riding Skirts, and Social Reform in the Turn-of-the-Century Rural West” is now published in Montana The Magazine of Western History (Winter 2020). Learn more by clicking here!
Dr. LoSavio recently published “Burma in the Southeast Asia Peninsula Games, 1950-1970: Buddhism, Bodhisattvas, Decolonization, and Nation Making through Sport” in the International Journal of the History of Sport. Below is the abstract for the article but you can read the full article. Abstract Histories of transnational sports in Southeast Asia remain largely unexamined for […]
PhD student Samantha Edgerton recently published a book review in the Western Historical Quarterly! The review covers Land Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity, by Simón Ventura Trujillo.
We would like to congratulate University of Idaho Professor Emeritus Katherine Aiken (WSU Department of History alumnus) on being named as the recipient of the prestigious 2020 Idaho State Historical Society’s Esto Perpetua Award. Professor Aiken’s research has long focused on social and cultural history, as well as on topics in women’s history and labor […]
Prof. Kawamura’s essay, “Naval Powers in the Pacific at the Crossroads,” has just come out. It is in Tosh Minohara and Evan Dawley, eds., Beyond Versailles: The 1919 Moment and a New Order in East Asia. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020.
Prof. Sue Peabody’s essay, “Slaves as Witnesses, Slaves as Evidence: French and British Prosecution of the Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean,” has been published in Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: “The King is Listening,” edited by Nancy Christie, Michael Gauvreau (Routledge, 2021), 281-303.
Assistant Professor Nikolaus Overtoom celebrates for the release of “The Parthians’ Failed Vassalage of Syria: The Shortsighted Western Policy of Phraates II and the Second Reign of Demetrius II (129-125 BCE)” in Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 60.1-2 (2020). “Acta Antiqua publishes original research papers, review articles and book reviews in the field of ancient […]
A new book Dr. Sue Peabody consulted on, L’étrange histoire de Furcy Madeline, a catalogue companion to the exhibit which opened last fall in Réunion, is now available. Together with the museum director, she is in the process of creating a bilingual traveling exhibit, as well as a pedagogical website. An independent documentary film is […]
To Transnationalize War Memory for Peace and Kyosei: Reconciliation of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima How we remember World War II in the Pacific is clearly divided by national boundaries. The contrast between how Americans and Japanese remember Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. use of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki clearly […]
Dr. Katy Whalen will soon be appearing in a virtual panel on October 27 to talk about –among other things– eco-racism in Washington State’s oyster industry history. The event is co-sponsored by the Museum of Food and Drink in New York City and New York public radio. Take a look at the event at this […]