Puck Brecher gave a lecture at the National Japanese History Museum in Japan. The talk was titled “Muyo no mono no yūyō-sei: Sōzōbutsu to shite no Nihon ōkami” (Uses of the useless: The Japanese wolf as allegory).
Andra Chastain published a book review of Periferia: Poblaciones y desarrollo urbano en Santiago de Chile, 1920-1940, by Simón Castillo Fernández and Waldo Vila Muga. The review appeared in Spanish in Revista Historia y Patrimonio, an urban studies journal published by the University of Chile. https://rhp.uchile.cl/index.php/RHP/article/view/74326/76498
Ph.D., University of California Merced, 2024
M.A., University of California Merced, 2022
B.A., Humboldt State University, 2016
A.A., Coastline Community College, 2013
Public and applied history, digital humanities, critical and community archives, urban history, race and place, 20th Century American West
Dr. Shiloh Soto is a public historian of the 20th Century American West. Centering racialized workers, Shiloh’s research explores the consequences of the benevolence of public memory and sets out to ameliorate regional archives through an ethnic studies lens. Committed to publicly accessible historical research, her current work explores the liberatory possibilities of community archives through analysis of a community-engaged project she led in California’s rural San Joaquin Valley: a 100-page experiential guidebook on the City of Livingston, and a paired ethnic studies syllabus on digital archives and local history. These interdisciplinary digital humanities projects endeavor to put students in the driver’s seat of archival work and rethink how knowledge is produced. Her research has been primarily supported through community-engaged research grants from the Luce Foundation and various public humanities centers. Shiloh’s future research will take a critical archives approach to Vancouver’s labor, immigration, and social movement histories.
Robert Franklin (PI) and Phil Mudd (DTC, WSU Tri-Cities – Co-PI) received funding for the Documenting Undertold Narratives of the Manhattan Project at Hanford P24AC01008-00 Grant. The goal of the project is to marry archival holdings and oral histories with contemporary interviews to produce a series of podcasts documenting undertold narratives of the Manhattan Project, focusing on Tribal perspectives, African Americans, women, atomic bomb survivors, downwinders, and LGBTQ project workers. The project is currently funded for $67K through 12/2026
Marlene Gaynair presented her paper “Xavier Leads Sepia Brigade as Race Stars Dominate Relays” HBCU Triumphs and the Rise of Jamaican Sprinting Excellence at the Penn Relays at the 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) in Denver, Colorado on May 26th, 2024.
Sue Peabody presented her paper, “The Collaborative Art of Graphic Biography: ‘I am Not a Refugee,’” at the French Colonial Historical Society, along with novelist Patti Flinn and Parks Canada public historian and YA author John Johnston in May, 2024. Next year’s meeting will be in Buffalo, New York.
PhD candidate Sreya Mukherjee has received a Foley Summer Fellowship.
L Heidenreich presented “’Never Grow Weary My Sisters’: The Deep and Liberatory Roots of Women Religious and the United Farm Worker Movement,” at the annual conference of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. They accepted a position as regional representative of the Pacific Northwest for the same organization.
Oxford University Press has approved Nik Overtoom’s book proposal “King of Kings” for publication. This book continues the interdisciplinary methodology of his first book with OUP, “Reign of Arrows,” by considering the struggles of the Parthians and Romans to conquer and secure the Near East in the 100s-50s BCE through the analysis of a variety of sources and the interpretations of international relations theory.
Nik Overtoom presented his paper, “Navigating Ethnicity, Stereotypes, and Race in the Teaching of Antiquity,” at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association in New Orleans on April 20, 2024
