Dr. Krotke-Crandall New Position
claudia.mickasKarl Krotke-Crandall has accepted the position of Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Eastern European History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Dr. Chastain Wins Grant
claudia.mickasAndra Chastain won a 2022 New Faculty Seed Grant for her project entitled “Global Urban Histories in the Americas: Santiago, Chile,” which includes support to complete revisions her book Chile Underground: The Santiago Metro and the Struggle for a Rational City, as well as preliminary research for a new project on the history of urban air pollution in the Americas.
Book Launch for Dr. Boag’s Book
claudia.mickasPeter Boag’s latest book is now out: https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295750637/pioneering-death/
The Oregon Historical Society (OHS) is hosting a book launch event on June 8th and 7pm at OHS in downtown Portland: https://www.ohs.org/events/pioneering-death.cfm
Dr. Peabody Hosts Screening
claudia.mickasSue Peabody will host another screening of the film “Furcy: le procès de la liberté,” at the French Colonial Historical Society meeting, where she will also chair two panels: the roundtable “MicroHistory and French Colonialism,” and “Representing Slavery in Museums: Challenges and Approaches.”
Dr. Mercier Co-Curates Exhibit
claudia.mickasThe exhibit Laurie Mercier co-curated, Building Solidarity for 30 Years: Portland Jobs with Justice, is on display at the Oregon Historical Society until May 16, 2022.
For more information, please click here.
Dr. Mercier Publishes Article
claudia.mickasLaurie Mercier published “Oral History with Margaret Butler: Advocate for Workers’ Rights and Jobs with Justice,” in the recent Oregon Historical Quarterly (Spring 2022): pp 80-107.
Dr. Krotke-Crandall Wins Teaching Award
claudia.mickasKarl Krotke-Crandall is the winner of the 2022 Excellence in Online Teaching Award.
This award seeks to acknowledge and reward those faculty teaching Global Campus courses who go the extra mile to inspire and engage students in learning, support and care about students, and encourage students to do and be their best.
Dr. Mercier Presents Workshop
claudia.mickasLaurie Mercier presented a workshop, “It Happened Here: Making Labor History Visible” on developing plaques and walking tours to commemorate the disappearing sites of labor history, at the Pacific Northwest Labor History Conference held in Portland April 23, 2022.
Dr. Peabody’s Essay Published
claudia.mickasSue Peabody’s essay “Microhistory and ‘Prize Negroes’: Reconstructing the Origins and Fates of African Captives in the Indian Ocean World through Serial Data,” has been published in Regenerated Identities: Documenting African Lives, Kartikay Chadha, Henry B. Lovejoy, Paul E. Lovejoy, Érika Melek Delgado, eds. Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora, https://africaworldpressbooks.com/regenerated-identities-documenting-african-lives-edited-by-paul-e-lovejoy-henry-b-lovejoy-erika-melek-delgado-and-kartikay-chadha/