Marlene Gaynair presented her paper “Xavier Leads Sepia Brigade as Race Stars Dominate Relays” HBCU Triumphs and the Rise of Jamaican Sprinting Excellence at the Penn Relays at the 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) in Denver, Colorado on May 26th, 2024.
Sue Peabody presented her paper, “The Collaborative Art of Graphic Biography: ‘I am Not a Refugee,’” at the French Colonial Historical Society, along with novelist Patti Flinn and Parks Canada public historian and YA author John Johnston in May, 2024. Next year’s meeting will be in Buffalo, New York.
PhD candidate Sreya Mukherjee has received a Foley Summer Fellowship.
L Heidenreich presented “’Never Grow Weary My Sisters’: The Deep and Liberatory Roots of Women Religious and the United Farm Worker Movement,” at the annual conference of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. They accepted a position as regional representative of the Pacific Northwest for the same organization.