Matt Sutton delivered the paper “Donald Trump, the Apocalypse, and the Role of Religion in Modern American Politics” at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany.
Bob Bauman and Robert Franklin won a 2022 Arts and Humanities Fellowship for their book project entitled Tri-Cities Latinx Community Oral History Project.
Lawrence Hatter won a 2022 Arts and Humanities Fellowship for the book project The Past is Never Dead: History, Law, and Indigenous Sovereignty on the U.S.-Canadian Border.
Karl Krotke-Crandall is the winner of the 2022 Excellence in Online Teaching Award. This award seeks to acknowledge and reward those faculty teaching Global Campus courses who go the extra mile to inspire and engage students in learning, support and care about students, and encourage students to do and be their best.
Bob Bauman was presented the WSU Tri-Cities Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Excellence Award. This award is given annually to a WSU Tri-Cities faculty member whose research, scholarship, or creative work is exemplary, and whose work has had a positive influence on the broader community. It is the campus’s highest research honor.
Laurie Mercier presented a workshop, “It Happened Here: Making Labor History Visible” on developing plaques and walking tours to commemorate the disappearing sites of labor history, at the Pacific Northwest Labor History Conference held in Portland April 23, 2022.
Sue Peabody’s essay “Microhistory and ‘Prize Negroes’: Reconstructing the Origins and Fates of African Captives in the Indian Ocean World through Serial Data,” has been published in Regenerated Identities: Documenting African Lives, Kartikay Chadha, Henry B. Lovejoy, Paul E. Lovejoy, Érika Melek Delgado, eds. Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora
Andra Chastain is presenting new research at Culture, State, and Empire in Latin America: A Conference in Honor of Gil Joseph, at Yale University, on Saturday, April 23. Her paper examines French soft power in Chile as part of a panel on new directions in Cold War history.
On May 11th from 4:30-6:00 pm, Latah County Historical Society is hosting an open house for Jessica O’Rourke’s exhibit titled “Inland Northwest Immigrants: Newcomers to Latah County,” housed in the historic McConnell Mansion. The exhibit will be on display in the mansion until the end of August.
Alan Malfavon’s dissertation “Kin of the Leeward Port: Afro-Mexicans in Veracruz in the Making of State Formation, Contested Spaces, and Regional Development, 1770-1830” won the honorable mention for the Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth Century Studies Section’s Best Dissertation 2022 Award.