November 2024

Ray Sun was interviewed by the Inlander (Spokane) for a cover story in this week’s edition on the naming of a new middle school after a local Holocaust survivor and rescuer, Carla Olman Peperzak.

Ryan Booth spoke at the Esther Reed Chapter (Spokane) of the Daughters of the American Revolution last Saturday. His presentation was on the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act.

Sue Peabody delivered an invited guest lecture, “Indian Ocean Differences,” to Prof. Rachel Jean-Baptiste’s graduate history seminar at Stanford University, 12 November 2024. She is also participating in a roundtable, “Doing Graphic Histories,” at the Western Society for French History in San Francisco, 15 November 2024.

 Iván González-Soto participated in a faculty panel discussion on curriculum integration titled “Teaching in the Learning Garden” at WSU Vancouver. The event took place on 11/14, and fellow panelists included Kevan Moffet and Michelle Steen-Adams. The event was hosted by WSUV’s Collective for Social and Environmental Justice, and it highlighted the new Indigenous Traditional Ecological […]

For Veterans Day Week, the “Letter from the Vice President of Research”  highlighted Ray Sun’s work on the Fallen Cougars Project: Research Radar: News from the WSU Office of Research

Sabrina González led a workshop entitled: “Listening, Narrating, Archiving Women’s Stories Through Oral History” at the PNW Foco Meeting- National Association for Chicana Chicano Studies. Six undergraduate students from her class HIST335 “Women in Latin America” presented their research and introduced a website that aims to archive oral histories on Latinx Women in Washington. In […]

L Heidenreich served as co-chair for the Pacific Northwest Regional Conference of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, “Unyielding Legacies: 500+ Years of Organizing, Acting Our Dreams and Crafting Futures,” held at Yakima Valley College, November 9, 2024.

Iván González-Soto participated in an “Interdisciplinary Dialogues” virtual event hosted by WSU’s Office of Research Working Group on Arts & Humanities on Wednesday, October 30th. The event centered around the theme of food justice/food security/food sovereignty, and he presented alongside Diane Smith and Landon Charlo with M.A. Miller as moderator.

 Iván González-Soto participated in a roundtable discussion at the 64th Annual Western History Association Conference in Kansas City, Missouri on Friday, October 25th. The roundtable was titled “Graphic History: A Roundtable on Sequential Art to Broaden the Definition of Historical Scholarship.” He shared his work and presented alongside B. Erin Cole, Andy Kirk, and Kendall […]

Charles Weller’s latest book was released in October: Moses, Muhammad and Nature’s God in Early American Religious-Legal History, 1640-1830 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024;