WSU Vancouver

Sue Peabody gave a talk entitled “A Rhetoric of Microhistory: Truth and Stories” at the Global History Colloquium of Frei Universität Berlin on May 5.

WSU Vancouver hosted an alumni panel, “Putting the History Degree to Work,” on April 23. The panelists included Anne‑Elisabeth Marrgraf (History, Class of 2016), who appeared on three episodes of the gameshow Jeopardy! between 2016–17 and now practices as an attorney in Southwest Washington. History majors, along with non‑majors, engaged with the panel on graduate programs […]

Khiara Thomas, President of the WSU Vancouver History Club, earned 1st Place last week in the art exhibit at WSUV’s 23rd Annual Research Showcase. Her display and art history research poster, “Renaissance Magnificence: Revisiting Renaissance Practices,” was created in collaboration with Jesse Velasco and Emily Hamilton in the Art Program.

Iván González-Soto received an ADVANCE at WSU External Mentor Program Award. Through the award, Iván will work with José Alamillo, Professor and Chair of Chicana/o Studies at California State University Channel Islands. Professor Alamillo’s career trajectory includes an appointment at Washington State University, where he was hired in 1999 as an Assistant Professor of Comparative […]

Sue Peabody gave two talks over the past week: “Telling Furcy’s Story: Voices and Contexts,” Zentrum für Europäische Geschichts- und KulturWissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg on 20 April 2026, and “From Archives to Exhibit: The Making of Furcy’s Story,” Virginia Tech (via Zoom), 16 April 2026.

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.

As secretary and chair-elect of the Southern Cone Studies section of the Conference on Latin American History, Andra Chastain organized a roundtable on “community-engaged research and Southern Cone Studies” with scholars of Chile and Argentina experienced in public humanities, digital humanities, and oral history projects. The roundtable was held at the American Historical Association meeting […]

 Jesse Spohnholz and Brenna Miiller ran two workshops at the recent Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago, one on “Practicing Student-Centered Learning in Introductory World History Course” and the other on “Designing Student-Centered Learning in Introductory History Courses.” At the conference, Spohnholz also participated in a presidential roundtable on “The Civic Value […]

Sue Peabody has commented on (link opens in a new window) a commercial film, Furcy, né libre, released Wednesday in France, in the newsletter Histoire coloniale et postcoloniale. The film tells the highly fictionalized story of Furcy Madeleine, the subject of Sue’s book Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies (Oxford 2017).

Andra Chastain published an analysis of the recent Chilean presidential elections on The Conversation, a nonprofit news organization that features articles by academic experts written for the general public: “Chile elects most right-wing leader since Pinochet – in line with regional drift, domestic tendency to punish incumbents” (link opens in new window). Articles from The Conversation can be […]