Dr. LoSavio Lecture
claudia.mickasJoAnn LoSavio is giving a lecture at the University of Washington, Seattle. The event will be live streamed.
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Dr. Herzog Wins Award
claudia.mickasShawna Herzog has received the Excellence in Online Teaching Award. This award seeks to acknowledge and reward those faculty teaching Global Campus courses who go the extra mile to inspire and engage students in learning, support and care about students, and encourage students to do and be their best.
Dr. Sun to Speak for Holocaust Remembrance Day
claudia.mickasRay Sun will be the speaker at the Spokane Jewish community’s Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) commemoration on April 20, and this article appeared before the event in The Fig Tree, a small regional paper dedicated to interfaith dialogue and cooperation. Here’s the link: https://www.thefigtree.org/april23/040123raysunyomhashoah.html
Dr. Boag Publishes Essay
claudia.mickasPeter 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.
Dr. Peabody Selected for Endowment
claudia.mickasSue 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).
Samantha Edgerton Receives Scholarship
claudia.mickasSamantha Edgerton has received the Richard R. and Constance M. Albrecht Scholarship for the 2023-24 academic year.
Aaron Jesch Invited to Present
claudia.mickasAaron Jesch has been invited to present (and sing) at the upcoming Pacific Northwest Labor History Association conference to be held at the Washington State Historical Society in Tacoma, May 6, “Songs and Poems of the Industrial Workers of the World.” Last summer Jesch received a competitive Sam Fishman Travel Grant from the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.
Dr. Overtoom Proposal Selected
claudia.mickasNikolaus Overtoom’s proposal for a 2023 Fellowship, The Parthians at War: Combat, Logistics, Reputation, and the First War with Rome, has been selected for funding by the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities.
James Schroeder Wins Award
claudia.mickasPhD candidate James Schroeder has won the College of Arts and Sciences and Center for Arts and Humanities Frank Fraser and Irene Potter Scholarship.
Alicia Callahan Wins Crimson Award
claudia.mickasHistory major Alicia Callahan won the Crimson Award (1st place) in the Arts and Humanities category at SURCA. Her poster presentation, which was based on her Honors thesis, was about the combat experience and traumatic personal memories of the soldiers of the 6th Armored Division, who fought continuously for nine months in the European Theater of WW2 and liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. Her faculty advisor is Ray Sun. More information may be found here.