Marlene Gaynair presented her paper “’Five Flights a Day’: Air Jamaica and the Spread of Post-Colonial Jamaican Identity” today at the semiannual Lees Seminar at Rutgers University – Camden. This chapter from her book examines how Jamaica’s national airline facilitated the formation of a diasporic cosmopolitan identity for Jamaicans and served as a vehicle of foreign control […]
Nik Overtoom was featured in the WSU Libraries’ Crimson Reads Newsletter for March 2026, “Authors Reveal Genesis of Their 2025 Books.” https://libraries.wsu.edu/blog/2026/03/13/wsu-crimson-reads-authors-reveal-genesis-of-their-2025-books-panel-on-march-26/. He also was an invited panelist for the Crimson Reads 13th Annual Celebration of WSU Authors, hosted by Terrell Library, for the discussion, “Teaching the Future: WSU Textbook Authors on Writing and Publishing,” held on […]
L Heidenreich was interviewed for The First 100: Chicanas Changing History project. Their work “Skirt Drama,” and “To(o) q/Queer Aztlan” was published in Jota: A Queer Latina y Latinx Anthology (Flowersong Press).
Eugene Smelyansky was a guest on the American Medieval podcast, hosted by historian Matthew Gabriele (Virginia Tech). Eugene got to discuss what sparked his interest in studying marginalized peoples in medieval Europe and the enduring appeal of all things medieval in our own time. He also discussed his most recent book, Medievalisms and Russia: The Contest for Imaginary […]
On March 9th at 2pm Pacific, Jesse Spohnholz will present as part of the American Historical Association’s “The Civic Value of World History” online event as part of Civic Learning Week (link opens in new window), moderated by Kenneth Pomeranz.
On March 2, Jennifer Binzewski (WSU PhD 2016) presented Gonzaga University’s “The Art and Craft of History” annual lecture for 2026. Her talk was titled “Widows Behaving ‘Badly’: The Underground Catholic Community in Tudor & Stuart England.”
Sue Peabody’s traveling exhibit, “The Surprising Story of Furcy Madeleine,” has just opened at Virginia Tech. See the attached photos and the story in the VT Daily News. She will do a zoom class with students there in March.
Nikolaus Overtoom is now under contract with OUP to act as an editor and contributor for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Ancient Parthia. This will be the first such study published on the Parthians and their world.
Ryan Booth published an article in a special edition of the Journal of the Civil War Era , which is published by the University of North Carolina Press. This issue of the Journal of the Civil War Era departs from our normal work of publishing articles and review essays to ask, “What should historians of crisis […]
PhD student Blair Rogers contributed new material and is now the co-author, with Steven Teske, of “Cuban Refugee Crisis,” an article on the website of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. He drew on his research into the lives of Cuban migrants detained at Fort Chafee to shed light on detainees’ religious life, sexuality, and musical culture.