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
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.
Sue Peabody’s article, “Bissette and the Police des Noirs in the Nineteenth Century: Free Soil and Patronage.” French Colonial History, 21-22 (2023): 1-40, is available via the website: https://frenchcolonial.org/journal/.
Sue Peabody presented her paper, “Teaching the Criminalization of Migration and Activism through Graphic Memoir,” CINETS-Border Crimmigration Conference, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR, 2 March 2024.
Andra Chastain was interviewed about the recent Argentine elections for El Regionalista, an online news site based in Chile.
Andra Chastain won an Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere from the American Historical Association. The grant will support preliminary research on a new project on the history of air pollution in California, Mexico, and Chile, tentatively titled Urban Air: A History of Smog in the Americas. https://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/past-recipients/albert-j-beveridge-grant-recipients
Peter Boag’s new essay “As Silent as Two Graves: Linking Genocide and Parricide in Gilded Age Oregon,” appeared in the newly released Pacific Northwest Quarterly.
Sue Peabody (History, Vancouver) is thrilled to have been selected for a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 2023 Summer Stipend. She will complete the archival research for her book project, “The Failure of the Succès: Anatomy of a Slave Smuggling Voyage” in Paris and Nantes, while giving several invited lectures in Paris (Campus Condorcet, Sorbonne, Dartmouth Study Abroad) and Venice (Ca’ Foscari).
Aaron Jesch has been invited to present (and sing) at the upcoming Pacific Northwest Labor History Association conference to be held at the Washington State Historical Society in Tacoma, May 6, “Songs and Poems of the Industrial Workers of the World.” Last summer Jesch received a competitive Sam Fishman Travel Grant from the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.