April 2025

Professor Laurie Mercier gave a May Day (International Workers’ Day) talk at the Clark County Historical Museum, “The Union Makes Us Strong: Labor History in Clark County and the Pacific Northwest.”

Dr. Aaron Jesch (WSU PhD 2023) has been awarded the 2025 Labor and Working-Class History Association Research Award Grant for his project, “Written on the Wobbly: Working-Class Tattoos and the Industrial Workers of the World.”

Sreya Mukherjee won the Mary Elizabeth “Betsy” Perry Graduate Student Conference Poster Prize for her poster “Temperance in Translation: The WCTU’s Temperance Advocacy in Colonial Bengal.” The award recognizes an outstanding poster and presentation by a graduate student at the Western Association of Women Historians’ annual meeting.

L Heidenreich received the  2025 LGBTQIA2S+ Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award from GIESO, WSU.

Sue Peabody has been awarded a €80,000 Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This award goes to “internationally leading researchers of all disciplines from abroad in recognition of their academic record to date.” During her sabbatical next year, while working on several historical research projects, she will collaborate with Prof. Rebekka von Malinckrodt, Universität […]

Alicia Callahan is a History BA 2023 and was History’s Outstanding Senior that year. She did her Honors thesis with Dr. Ray Sun, which is the basis for her current graduate research at Central Washington University. That thesis received the Portz award as one of the top four theses in the country selected by the National […]

Jesse Spohnholz was awarded a 2025 Richard G. Law Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching from the Provost Office’s Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement. The Awards Ceremony will be on Tuesday, April 22, from 3-4:15pm, at the Lewis Alumni Centre in Pullman.

Shiloh Green Soto was selected for the WSUV Community Engaged Scholars (CES) program to adapt her housing and environmental justice course (HIST 395: Landscapes of Power) toward collaboration with WA- and OR-based environmental justice groups. 

ASEH Conference Roundtable: Iván González-Soto participated in a roundtable discussion on April 10 at the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Attendees gathered to exchange ideas on “Cultivating Alternatives: Rethinking Race, Place, and Food.” The session offered a forum for dialogue and collaboration for scholars interested in issues of food production, […]

Community Engaged Scholars Program: Iván González-Soto was recently selected for the 2025–26 Community Engaged Scholars (CES) program at WSU Vancouver. Through the program, he will receive support to integrate community engagement into his teaching and research, along with access to additional funding opportunities.