Andra Chastain gave an invited talk in Spanish, via Zoom, for the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) as part of a seminar series on historical approaches to studying climate change in Mexico. She also reprised this talk for a presentation at the Latin American Studies Association annual meeting in San Francisco. The title of […]
On May 22, Robert Franklin was awarded as PI $49,401.00 by the National Park Service for a two-year project to document unknown or little-known histories of women who worked on the Manhattan Project at Hanford, locate and access relevant archival materials, conduct oral history research and interviews, and create public history and educational products to […]
On May 17, Robert Franklin presented his paper, “‘We Was a Village; We Were a Family’: The Historic Built Environment of African American East Pasco, Washington at the Manhattan Project National Historical Park (MAPR)” at the annual Vernacular Architecture Forum conference in Wilmington, DE
Jacob Wells has received his PhD in Psychology from Grand Canyon University (Phoenix, AZ). He recently started a new job as Upper School Dean at Oak Mountain Academy in Carrolton, Georgia, after two highly successful experiences teaching and coaching cross-country and track & field at private schools in Arizona and Pennsylvania.
Madison Barben (MA 2023) recently accepted a full-time position as the Museum Manager at the RailsWest History Museum in Council Bluffs, IA.
The WSU College of Arts and Sciences awarded PhD student Kyley Canion Brewer the Boeing Graduate Fellowship in Environmental Studies in the amount of $4000 for the 2025-26 academic year.
Ray Sun received the 2025 Distinguished Faculty Award from the Honors College.
Eugene Smelyansky contributed to the recently published edited volume Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World: An Introduction through Film (Fordham University Press, 2025). This collection examines 20 films set in the Middle Ages and explores the depictions of “medieval” laws, customs, and norms in them. Since films remain one of the most popular and most […]
WSU Vancouver History alumnus Frank Laolagi (BA 2024), currently enrolled in a master’s program at U. Nebraska Kearney, recently presented his project on the 1973 Evergreen School District Teacher Strike (in SW Washington) at the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association conference. This strike eventually resulted in state legislation permitting teachers to negotiate through collective bargaining. […]
Iván González-Soto will serve as a faculty mentor for two undergraduate research projects over the 2025-2026 academic year. This week, two of Iván’s students were awarded Undergraduate Research Fellowships in recognition of their proposed/collaborative oral history project in Southwest Washington and outstanding academic work. Last semester, they completed original oral history projects for Iván’s HIST […]