History

Nik Overtoom was featured in the WSU Libraries’ Crimson Reads Newsletter for March 2026, “Authors Reveal Genesis of Their 2025 Books.” https://libraries.wsu.edu/blog/2026/03/13/wsu-crimson-reads-authors-reveal-genesis-of-their-2025-books-panel-on-march-26/. He also was an invited panelist for the Crimson Reads 13th Annual Celebration of WSU Authors, hosted by Terrell Library, for the discussion, “Teaching the Future: WSU Textbook Authors on Writing and Publishing,” held on […]

L Heidenreich was interviewed for The First 100: Chicanas Changing History project.  Their work “Skirt Drama,” and “To(o) q/Queer Aztlan” was published in Jota: A Queer Latina y Latinx Anthology (Flowersong Press).

Eugene Smelyansky was a guest on the American Medieval podcast, hosted by historian Matthew Gabriele (Virginia Tech). Eugene got to discuss what sparked his interest in studying marginalized peoples in medieval Europe and the enduring appeal of all things medieval in our own time. He also discussed his most recent book, Medievalisms and Russia: The Contest for Imaginary […]

On March 9th at 2pm Pacific, Jesse Spohnholz will present as part of the American Historical Association’s “The Civic Value of World History” online event as part of Civic Learning Week (link opens in new window), moderated by Kenneth Pomeranz.

On March 2, Jennifer Binzewski (WSU PhD 2016) presented Gonzaga University’s “The Art and Craft of History” annual lecture for 2026. Her talk was titled “Widows Behaving ‘Badly’: The Underground Catholic Community in Tudor & Stuart England.”

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.

Nikolaus Overtoom is now under contract with OUP to act as an editor and contributor for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Ancient Parthia. This will be the first such study published on the Parthians and their world.

Nik Overtoom offered the interview “Playing Telephone in Rome” for The Spin Cycle Podcast. Interview by Tucker Jennings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4k-Wt_6NHs (link opens in new window).

Ryan Booth will join a community panel following a public screening of Ken Burns’ The American Revolution on Tuesday, January 27 at 6pm at the main Tacoma Public Library. This event is being hosted by KBTC, a local public television station. For more information: https://www.kbtc.org/events/american-revolution-screening-january-27/ (link opens in new window).

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).