May 2022

 Jacki Hedlund-Tyler (PhD 2015) has been awarded tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor of History at Eastern Washington University. Jacki is the Director of Social Studies Education at EWU.

Dulce Kersting-Lark (MA Public History) was recently honored as one of twelve recipients of this year’s “Esto Perpetua”  Award by the Idaho State Historical Society. “The award — which takes its name from the state’s motto, “Let it be perpetual” — honors people and organizations who collect, preserve and promote state and local history.” Read […]

Mandy Link (PhD 2015) has received tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Texas at Tyler.

Emily Oller (MA 2018) is excited to have just been sworn into the Baker City (Oregon) Police Department as a patrol officer.

Eugene Smelyansky’s article, “Heretical Refugees and Persecution of German Waldensians, 1393–1400” was published in Journal of Medieval History this week:

Andra Chastain won a 2022 New Faculty Seed Grant for her project entitled “Global Urban Histories in the Americas: Santiago, Chile,” which includes support to complete revisions her book Chile Underground: The Santiago Metro and the Struggle for a Rational City, as well as preliminary research for a new project on the history of urban air pollution […]

 Peter Boag’s latest book is now out!  The Oregon Historical Society (OHS) is hosting a book launch event on June 8th and 7pm at OHS in downtown Portland.

Pamela Lee, ABD, published her review of Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914 in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 52, No.4 (Spring 2022): 605-606.

Sue Peabody will host another screening of the film “Furcy: le procès de la liberté,” at the French Colonial Historical Society meeting, where she will also chair two panels: the roundtable “MicroHistory and French Colonialism,” and “Representing Slavery in Museums: Challenges and Approaches.”

Kyley Canion-Brewer will present her paper, “What Remains? Decolonization in the History of the AfricaMuseum (1897 – 2020),” based on her M.A. thesis with Dr. Sun, at the French Colonial Historical Society annual meeting in Charleston, South Carolina, on May 14, 2022.