Ryan Booth has been named to Humanities Washington for a three-year team by Governor Jay Inslee. The term began January 1, 2023. Humanities Washington is a nonprofit organization and is the affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. You can read more here.
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 17th, 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
Greg Hall (WSU History PhD 1999 – advisor was the late Professor David Coon) recently published Writing Labor’s Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox with the University of Washington Press. Writing Labor’s Emancipation (uw.edu)
Greg is a Professor of History at Western Illinois University. Dr.Greg Hall – Western Illinois University (wiu.edu)
MA student Victor Moore has had his first book review published in the Journal of Caribbean History.
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/
Alan Malfavon will be giving a talk tomorrow on one of his current book project’s chapters at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, for the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute’s “American Origins” Seminar.
The chapter is entitled “Afro-insurgents vs. Afro-royalists: Early Mexican War of Independence and Cádiz liberalism, 1810-1813.” During the talk he will share the ways by which Veracruz’s Afro-descendants during the early years of the Mexican War of Independence, 1810-1813, engaged local and transatlantic political and ideological frameworks that helped them shape the outcomes of the struggle. By looking at their participation as either royalists or insurgents and their experiences with 1812 Cadiz liberalism, his paper tackles the ways by which regional war and liberalism were transformed by Black leadership and agency.
On the midterm elections, Matt Sutton was briefly interviewed on the BBC’s Sunday religion/news show. His interview begins at the 32:09 mark: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001f4gf. On Wednesday, he published the following in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/11/16/falwell-religious-right-herschel-walker/