Andra Chastain gave an interview with KPFA, a community radio station based in California, about the recent Chilean elections. The interview appeared on the UpFront news program on December 3, 2025, and it can be accessed here: https://kpfa.org/archives/2025/12/3/#news (link opens in new window).
Nikolaus Overtoom’s book chapter, “Concepts of Courage and Cowardice in the Formation of the Parthian State,” will be published in (link opens in new window) Brill’s Companion to Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Mediterranean Warfare on December 18th. This research builds off his second monograph, The Parthians at War: Combat, Logistics, Reputation, and the First War with Rome, published yesterday […]
Ken Faunce is co-teaching with Dr. Rodney Frey (Professor Emeritus, UI) and Nez Perce tribal members a free public course on Nimiipuu History and Culture. The course is an 8-week course in Moscow including guest speakers and a field trip to Spalding and Lapwai, Idaho.
Nikolaus Overtoom’s second monograph, The Parthians at War: Combat, Logistics, Reputation, and the First War with Rome, will be published Thursday Dec. 11th by Bloomsbury Publishing. It provides a comprehensive study to evaluate and understand the military capabilities and accomplishments of the greatest enemy of the Seleucids and Romans, the Parthians. Overtoom draws on a […]
Sue Peabody participated in a faculty manuscript workshop at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) on November 19, seeking comments on the Sudanese graphic memoir recently retitled, “Many Names: The Life Journey of a Sudanese Poet.” The following day, she gave a keynote lecture, “Recentering the Subaltern: Microhistory as Method” hosted by UCPH’s Faculty of the […]
PhD Candidate Sreya Mukherjee got a shoutout in the Provost’s message to the university
Puck Brecher has published a monograph titled Loving and Loathing Wildlife in Japan: Four Animal Conservation Paradigms – UH Press (link opens in new window). The book examines the four dominant paradigms—compassionate control (pre-1868), utility (1868–1945), conservation (1868–1980), and welfare (1902–1999)—that have dictated how Japan has conceptualized and handled its engagements with wildlife.
Nikolaus Overtoom has published his sixteenth peer-reviewed journal article, “Reconsidering and Reconstructing the Rise of Tigranes II of Armenia against the Parthians (87-69 BCE),” with Orientalia Antiqua et Nova 2 (2025): 99-127.
Andra Chastain took part in a student-centered dialogue about environmental history at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, alongside faculty from Mexico and the United States, including Emily Wakild, Sergio Miranda, and Andrea Torrealba.
Sabrina González, Robert Franklin, and four undergraduate history majors presented at the Pacific Northwest Foco Conference at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) in a panel entitled “HERitage: Women’s Oral Histories as Healing Practices.” Sabrina González presented “Pedagogy & Community: A Letter to Whom Dare to Teach in Times of Despair” as […]