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Briere and Chastain study the 161st Infantry Regiment

We are proud to highlight the work of graduate students Laura Briere and Jared Chastain, along with their faculty adviser, Professor Orlan Svingen. They were in College Park, Maryland last spring looking for information about the storied 161st Infantry Regiment when they mistakenly got off the elevator on the wrong floor. Take a look at their incredible story here in the WSU Insider News:

History project showcases rare footage of Washington’s 161st Infantry Regiment

2017 Celebration of Assessment Excellence

The Department of History is honored to receive praise from the Office of Assessment of Teaching and Learning for not only the success of the general history courses being offered, but also for the success of the Roots of Contemporary Issues UCORE program. History as a whole department was recognized for its high quality learning and assessment practices while RCI was recognized for its exemplary student learning assessment system for a UCORE program in partnership with WSU Libraries.

Professor Whelchel as the Provost’s Featured Faculty

Congratulations professor Whelchel! Aaron Whelchel, a history professor currently located at WSU-Vancouver, was awarded the Provost’s Featured Faculty Member recognition this month by Chancellor Netzhammer and Renny Christopher.

Professor Whelchel will be present in Pullman for the homecoming game on October 21st where he will be recognized for his accomplishments!

GO HISTORY! GO COUGS!

Featured Faculty

PhD candidate Binczewski wins Meyer Prize!

Please join us in congratulating Jennifer Binczewski on this very impressive recognition!

Jennifer, a PhD candidate in our department, has been awarded the Meyer Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, the international scholarly organization devoted to interdisciplinary research on the early modern era (defined as c.1450-1660). The prize is awarded to the best conference paper delivered at the annual meeting by a scholar who is still in graduate school or has earned the Ph.D. in the last five years. At the 2016 conference in Bruges (Belgium) was entitled, “Bestowed Upon God: The Movements of Catholic Children in Post-Reformation England and Beyond.” Binczewski will be recognized at the 2017 conference in two weeks’ time.

Binczewski’s dissertation, from which this research came, is entitled “Solitary Sparrows: Widowhood and the Catholic Community in Post-Reformation England, 1580-1630.” She plans to defend this coming November.

 

Sutton and Hatter speak at the Foley Institute

Professors Lawrence Hatter, Matthew Sutton, and Jeniffer Barclay(of CCGRS) spoke at the Foley Institute for a presentation being titled “Racism or Heritage: Controversies over Civil War Monuments,” on October 10, 2017. Please take the time to review their discussion on the official Youtube account of the Thomas S. Foley institute.

 

Dr. Yvonne Berliner hosts a guest!

On Monday, October 9, 2017, History 232 The Mexican Revolution and the Arts Senior Instructor Dr. Yvonne Berliner hosted guest lecturer Dr. Francisco Manzo-Robledo, from the WSU Foreign languages and cultures Department.  Professor Manzo-Robledo spoke about the role of women in the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920, as portrayed in Mexican films of the 1940s and 50s.  Students and professors engaged in discussion regarding differing gendered views of this historical event.

Jesse Spohnholz and The Convent of Wesel

Professor Spohnholz has a new book published by Cambridge University Press, available for pre-order now!

The Convent of Wesel was long believed to be a clandestine assembly of Protestant leaders in 1568 that helped establish foundations for Reformed churches in the Dutch Republic and northwest Germany. However, Jesse Spohnholz shows that that event did not happen, but was an idea created and perpetuated by historians and record keepers since the 1600s. Appropriately, this book offers not just a fascinating snapshot of Reformation history but a reflection on the nature of historical inquiry itself. The Convent of Wesel begins with a detailed microhistory that unravels the mystery and then traces knowledge about the document at the centre of the mystery over four and a half centuries, through historical writing, archiving and centenary commemorations. Spohnholz reveals how historians can inadvertently align themselves with protagonists in the debates they study and thus replicate errors that conceal the dynamic complexity of the past.

Join us in congratulating him on his upcoming release!

Philip W. Travis, PhD

Philip W. Travis, PhD, will be on the Peace and Justice Report on Sarasota Public Radio WSLR 96.5 at 9am eastern time, Wed. Oct. 4 discussing his recent book “Reagan’s War on Terrorism in Nicaragua: The Outlaw State.”

If you are interested in checking the program out it streams live and will be archived (follow the link below for the live stream and/or the archived program after the live broadcast).

Peace & Justice Report

Under the Skin: Dismantling Borders within Borders

You are warmly invited to this exhibit of collective art works on representing identity and stereotypes at Gallery 3 Fine Arts Department WSU. This will include work completed by our own Yvonne Burliner at the Under the Skin workshop last Thursday with some of her students. There will be food and a chance to share thoughts.

 

https://education.wsu.edu/event/under-the-skin-exhibit/

 

“Under the Skin is a community that started to be formed in 2016 and continues to offer spaces of dialogue, creation, and healing. Our revolution is a process and a practice to decolonize the self by continuously attempting to listen to our voices, write our stories, and transform our discourses and interactions. Under the Skin is an invitation to be part of a critical and dialogical community that dismantles stereotypes and labels.”