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).

Sue Peabody (History, WSU Vancouver) will participate in a roundtable, Representing Slavery in Museums: The French World, at the University of Texas, Austin, on Tuesday, January 17^th, sponsored by the French Embassy Cultural Services and the Department of French and Italian, UTA. Interested WSU students and faculty are invited to attend. The roundtable will take place from  11-12:35 Pacific (1:00-2:45PM Central) over Zoom: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsfuCvrD8pHte4O4rB8YAkzXgoplCFbL6T (you’ll need to register first; QR code in the poster). Keynote speaker: Prof. Ana-Lucia Araujo, Howard University. Other panelists: Dr. Jérémy Boutier and Jean-Barbier, Musée de Villèle: History of Slavery and the Plantation. Chair: Prof. Mélanie Lamotte, UTA. Respondant: Prof. Nathan Marvin, U. Arkansas, Little Rock.

Andra Chastain was re-elected to the Board of Directors of the Global Urban History Project (GUHP). You can learn more about this organization here: https://www.globalurbanhistory.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=803980&module_id=256970

Andra Chastain published a review of Sebastián Hurtado-Torres, The Gathering Storm: Eduardo Frei’s Revolution in Liberty and Chile’s Cold War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020), in H-LatAm: https://networks.h-net.org/node/23910/reviews/11805663/chastain-hurtado-torres-gathering-storm-eduardo-freis-revolution

Sue Peabody’s contribution to the online roundtable recognizing the prize-winning Caribbean New Orleans: Race, Empire, and the Making of a Slave Society (UNC, 2019), by Cécile Vidal (Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), has been published by the Toynbee Prize Foundation: https://toynbeeprize.org/posts/roundtable-panel-cecile-vidals-caribbean-new-orleans-rethinking-the-interconnected-nature-of-the-global-north-and-south-through/