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Shawna Herzog will receive the Honors Faculty Award this year. This award is given in recognition of important and long-standing contributions to the Honors College.

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 […]

Lilly Lovelady, a WSU Vancouver History major, was featured in this week’s VanCougar Student Magazine. The article, “Undergraduates Present Projects on Game Development, Historical Research and More, During Recent Research Showcase,” highlights Lovelady’s research conducted in HIST 469 and her reflections on the undergraduate research process. You can read the article here: https://thevancougar.org/undergraduates-present-projects-on-game-development-historical-research-and-more-during-recent-research-showcase/

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 […]

Nik Overtoom and Phil Gruen in the School of Design and Construction have been awarded a 2026-2027 WSU College of Arts and Humanities Interloper Grant for their proposed project for this summer and fall, “Ordering the Palouse: Classical Traditions and Architectural Meaning in an Agricultural Landscape.”

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.

Jesse Spohnholz has accepted a residential fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (located in Princeton, NJ) for Spring 2027. While there, Spohnholz will be working on his next book project, which explores the relationship between religious refugees, utopian thinking, and global colonialism during the dramatic transformations in understandings of the world and the cosmos […]

Marlene presented her talk “The Only Airline You’ll Ever Love”: Air Jamaica and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Mobility” as a part of the Canada Seminar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She explores how Air Jamaica, as a migratory infrastructure, simultaneously facilitated the formation of a diasporic cosmopolitan identity and served […]

Tucker Senter (Samish Nation), a junior majoring in social studies at Washington State University, earned a prestigious position at the Hoover Institution’s Indigenous Student Seminar this summer. Tucker will join approximately twenty other Native American students to study US Native policy and hear from a variety of Indigenous entrepreneurs, scholars, and community leaders. The seminar […]