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 […]
Andra Chastain gave an interview with KPFA, a community radio station based in California, about the recent Chilean elections. The interview appeared on the UpFront news program on December 3, 2025, and it can be accessed here: https://kpfa.org/archives/2025/12/3/#news (link opens in new window).
Andra Chastain took part in a student-centered dialogue about environmental history at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, alongside faculty from Mexico and the United States, including Emily Wakild, Sergio Miranda, and Andrea Torrealba.
Sue Peabody gave a lecture, “People of Color in France, 1815-1848,” to the Universität Bremen Forschungskolloquium Geschichte: Vorträge im Wintersemester.
Andra Chastain presented her paper, “Sensing Smog in Santiago: Public Discourses about Urban Air Pollution in Pinochet’s Chile,” at the Urban History Association’s biannual meeting, held in Los Angeles on October 9-12, 2025. She also received an award for honorable mention for Best Book in Urban History from the Urban History Association for Chile Underground: […]
WSUV History Club Field Trip: The WSUV History Club hosted its first fieldtrip of the academic year on Saturday, October 4th. The Club’s field trip to the Portland Art Museum was funded by WSUV’s Office of Student Involvement and attracted nearly 20 majors from across the campus including History, Human Development, Digital Technology and Culture, […]