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 […]
Upper Skagit Indian Tribe becomes 15th signatory of memorandum of understanding
A new project at Washington State University Tri-Cities is documenting the history of Latinas in central Washington. It will be a lasting archive of stories of immigrant life and resilience:
Jesse Spohnholz was elected Vice President/President-Elect of the Sixteenth Century Society, an interdisciplinary scholarly organization devoted to the study of the early modern era of history (1450-1750). While there, he also presented on “Utopian Thinking in the Sixteenth Century; Utopian Thinking Today,” comparing utopianisms adopted by peoples of Europe, Peru, Mexico, and Brazil at the […]
Sue Peabody gave a lecture, “People of Color in France, 1815-1848,” to the Universität Bremen Forschungskolloquium Geschichte: Vorträge im Wintersemester.