MA student Kyley Canion-Brewer will be participating in the 2021 Graduate Caucus Roundtable “Rethinking Research in the Age of Digital Humanities” for the 2022 Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference. For this conference she will be presenting her digital project that maps potential points of restitution in the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Brussels. The AfricaMuseum underwent […]
Karoline (Kaja) Cook, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department from Fall 2013 through Spring 2016, writes that her article “Claiming Nobility in the Monarquía Hispánica: The Search for Status by Inca, Aztec, and Nasrid Descendants at the Habsburg Court” has won the Natalie Zemon Davis Prize for best article published in Renaissance and Reformation in 2020. Kaja […]
Jesse Spohnholz’s latest article, “Reformed Exiles and International Calvinism in Reformation-Era Europe,” just appeared in print in The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism (Oxford University Press, 2021). Congratulations Dr. Spohnholz!
Daniel Fogt, ABD in early modern European history has published his first peer-reviewed journal article, “Migration and Transregional Marriage along the Dutch-German Borderlands, 1570–1601,” Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte/Archive for Reformation History, vol. 112, no. 1, (2021). Congratulations, Daniel!
Andrea (McWethy) Hetley, who was here as a graduate student in US history from 2009-12, will start a new full-time job as the archivist for the Sisters of the Presentation in San Francisco after Thanksgiving. The Sisters of the Presentation is a religious order that was started in 18th century Ireland.
Alan Malfavon will be doing a Son Jarocho performance and talk tomorrow at Bryan Hall Theatre from 11am to noon for World Music Day – this event will be livestreamed on the WSUPullmanMusic YouTube page.
Shawna Herzog has written a chapter titled “Gender and Slavery in Asia” in the anthology Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, to be released December 16th. Being included in this groundbreaking volume with such reputable scholars is truly an honor – congratulations Dr. Herzog!
Exciting News – the French Colonial Historical Society/Société d’histoire coloniale française has created a new award in honor of WSU-Vancouver History Department faculty member Sue Peabody, for her influence on and significance to the field of French Colonial History. The Award is to support the travel of a scholar from the Global South to the society’s annual meeting (which meets […]
Bob Bauman, lead liaison with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Center for Arts and Humanities, organized a panel being given Thursday, October 7th from 4:30pm-5:45pm at WSU-TriCities on “The Holocaust, Neo-Nazism, and White Supremacy.” It will be available on Zoom (registration link below) and available afterward on the WSUTC YouTube channel. The […]
Crossing Boundaries: Trans History, Then and Now, on October 14th at 7:00 PM. Join via Zoom for this conversation about the history of transgender people and how westward migration provided opportunities for self-expression and fulfillment. Viewers will have the chance to submit questions to the panel during the Q&A portion of the program.