Join us for the ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ documentary screening today, November 7, 4:30–6 p.m. in CUE 203 on the Pullman campus. The film will be introduced by Dr. Ryan Booth, who is featured in the film and addresses the displacement of Indigenous peoples in the American West by U.S. military, including the Buffalo Soldiers.
PhD student Drew Gamboa was chosen to be a state humanities fellow. Humanities Washington’s Public Humanities Fellowship program supports early-career scholars and professionals who wish to design and implement innovative projects for underserved communities.
Puck Brecher spoke on “On Japan’s Transition from Tokugawa to Meiji” for The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia’s “East Asia since 1800” workshop at the University of Southern California (virtual).
Sue Peabody presented her invited paper, “Gender and the Afterlives of Slavery in the Indian Ocean: Microhistory as Method,” Sawyer Seminar: Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom, funded by the Mellon Foundation. Dialogue One: Slavery, Racialization, and Gender, Indiana University, Bloomington, October 5-6, 2023
Ryan Booth has published an article in the latest Journal of Arizona History entitled “’As So Many Bengal Tigers’: The U.S. Army, Native Scouts, and the Imagined Martial Races of the Southwest.” The entire issue was written, edited, and peer reviewed by Indigenous historians, a first for the journal.