Oxford University Press has approved Nik Overtoom’s book proposal “King of Kings” for publication. This book continues the interdisciplinary methodology of his first book with OUP, “Reign of Arrows,” by considering the struggles of the Parthians and Romans to conquer and secure the Near East in the 100s-50s BCE through the analysis of a variety […]
Nik Overtoom presented his paper, “Navigating Ethnicity, Stereotypes, and Race in the Teaching of Antiquity,” at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association in New Orleans on April 20, 2024
Brenna Miller was awarded the 2024 Learning Communities Excellence Award from First-year Programs. This award recognizes her continuing work to support first-year students in her History 105 course using multiple venues and activities.
Eugene Smelyansky was interviewed by Antony Kaldellis (History, University of Chicago) for the “Byzantium and Friends” podcast. They discussed Eugene’s new book, Medievalism and Russia, and Russia’s history of claiming Byzantine heritage as a justification for its imperial expansion. The episode can be accessed.
PhD candidate James Schroder has received the Richard R. and Constance M. Albrecht Scholarship for the 2024-25 academic year from the WSU Graduate School.
PhD candidate Sreya Mukherjee has won a College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Research Award.
Ryan Booth is presenting the 2024 Seattle University Al Mann Lecture based on his research on the Jesuit-Native Boarding Schools in the Pacific Northwest. His presentation, “The Heart of It All: The Jesuit Mission School at Coeur d’Alene, 1878-1974,” will focus primarily on the boarding school at DeSmet, Idaho as a case study. The presentation […]
Eugene Smelyansky’s new book, Medievalisms and Russia: The Contest for Imaginary Pasts (Arc Humanities Press, 2024) has been published. The book explores how the medieval past has been wielded to propagandic effect in Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia. From politicians’ speeches to popular culture, from Orthodox Christianity to neo-paganism, the medieval Russian past remains crucial in constructing […]
Brenna Miller and Jesse Spohnholz just published a new article: “Backward Design and Forward Thinking in the Introductory World History Course: Recentering World War I as an African and African Diasporic Experience.” World History Bulletin 89, no. 2 (2023) as part of a Special Issue dedicated to “Democratizing, Diversifying, and Decolonizing the World History Survey.”
Dr. Megan Asaka, associate professor of history, University of California, Riverside and author of Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure and the Making of a Pacific Coast City will present her research at 4:30 p.m. on April 4 in Todd Hall Addition 276. Her talk, “The Dividing Line: Race and Segregation in Early Seattle” will examine […]