February 2023

PhD student Jennifer Moran’s review of Letras y Limpias: Neocolonial Medicine and Holistic Healing in Mexican American Literature (Arizona, 2021) was published in Chicana/Latina Studies 22 no.1 (Fall 2022): 164-166.

 John Finkelberg published an article in Dix-Neuf. Abstract: The iconography of King Louis-Philippe I and his invoices for garments purchased new and refurbished between 1831 and 1846 bring to light how the July Monarchy deployed fashionable menswear in a canny politics of image-making. In doing so the regime used dress to establish the credentials of the new […]

Laurie Mercier’s article, “Reaching into the Community to Interpret Labor History: A Museum-Labor-University Collaboration,” appears in the most recent Public Historian (2023) 45 (1): 73–99, .

L Heidenreich received a 2023 Mother Theodore Guerin Research Travel Grant for their project “Saintly Protest: Women Religious, Religious Women, and the United Farm Worker Movement.” They will be using the funds to travel to the Mexican American Studies archive (Our Lady of the Lake University) in San Antonio in Spring of 2024.

Amy Canfield, PhD 2008, was named to the Idaho State Historical Society board of trustees. Canfield will represent District 2 on the board, replacing Earl Bennett of Genesee.  She is a professor of history at Lewis-Clark State College. You can read more at The Lewiston Tribune.

Ryan Booth has been named to Humanities Washington for a three-year team by Governor Jay Inslee. The term began January 1, 2023. Humanities Washington is a nonprofit organization and is the affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. You can read more at Pullman Moscow Daily News.