Puck Brecher gave a lecture at the National Japanese History Museum in Japan. The talk was titled “Muyo no mono no yūyō-sei: Sōzōbutsu to shite no Nihon ōkami” (Uses of the useless: The Japanese wolf as allegory).
Andra Chastain published a book review of Periferia: Poblaciones y desarrollo urbano en Santiago de Chile, 1920-1940, by Simón Castillo Fernández and Waldo Vila Muga. The review appeared in Spanish in Revista Historia y Patrimonio, an urban studies journal published by the University of Chile. https://rhp.uchile.cl/index.php/RHP/article/view/74326/76498
Robert Franklin (PI) and Phil Mudd (DTC, WSU Tri-Cities – Co-PI) received funding for the Documenting Undertold Narratives of the Manhattan Project at Hanford P24AC01008-00 Grant. The goal of the project is to marry archival holdings and oral histories with contemporary interviews to produce a series of podcasts documenting undertold narratives of the Manhattan Project, focusing on Tribal perspectives, African Americans, women, atomic bomb survivors, downwinders, and LGBTQ project workers. The project is currently funded for $67K through 12/2026
Marlene Gaynair presented her paper “Xavier Leads Sepia Brigade as Race Stars Dominate Relays” HBCU Triumphs and the Rise of Jamaican Sprinting Excellence at the Penn Relays at the 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) in Denver, Colorado on May 26th, 2024.
Sue Peabody presented her paper, “The Collaborative Art of Graphic Biography: ‘I am Not a Refugee,’” at the French Colonial Historical Society, along with novelist Patti Flinn and Parks Canada public historian and YA author John Johnston in May, 2024. Next year’s meeting will be in Buffalo, New York.
PhD candidate Sreya Mukherjee has received a Foley Summer Fellowship.
L Heidenreich presented “’Never Grow Weary My Sisters’: The Deep and Liberatory Roots of Women Religious and the United Farm Worker Movement,” at the annual conference of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. They accepted a position as regional representative of the Pacific Northwest for the same organization.
Oxford University Press has approved Nik Overtoom’s book proposal “King of Kings” for publication. This book continues the interdisciplinary methodology of his first book with OUP, “Reign of Arrows,” by considering the struggles of the Parthians and Romans to conquer and secure the Near East in the 100s-50s BCE through the analysis of a variety of sources and the interpretations of international relations theory.
Nik Overtoom presented his paper, “Navigating Ethnicity, Stereotypes, and Race in the Teaching of Antiquity,” at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association in New Orleans on April 20, 2024
Brenna Miller was awarded the 2024 Learning Communities Excellence Award from First-year Programs. This award recognizes her continuing work to support first-year students in her History 105 course using multiple venues and activities.