Mandy Link (PhD 2015) has received tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Texas at Tyler. https://www.uttyler.edu/directory/history/mandy-link.php
Emily Oller (MA 2018) is excited to have just been sworn into the Baker City (Oregon) Police Department as a patrol officer.
Kristen Coan Howard (BA in History, WSU 2012) just accepted a tenure-track librarian position at McGill University. While at WSU, Howard worked with Jesse Spohnholz on research into gender and the Reformation in sixteenth-century Geneva, work that she continued in her 2020 PhD from the University of Arizona. In 2022, she completed a Masters in Information Sciences at McGill.
Jennifer Binczewski (PhD 2017) won the Pacific Coast Conference for British Studies for the best article published by a society member in 2020 for “Power in Vulnerability: Widows and Priest Holes in the Early Modern English Catholic Community” British Catholic History 35, no. 1 (2020): 1-24.
More information may be found here.
Trevor Bond (PhD History 2017), Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections at the WSU Libraries and Co-Director of the Center for Arts and Humanities (CAH) was featured in the new Winter 2021 edition of Washington State Magazine:
Jennifer Binczewski (PhD 2017) has won the 2021 Harold J. Grimm Prize for the best article in Reformation Studies (any discipline) published the previous year, awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference for her article, ““Power in Vulnerability: Widows and Priest Holes in the Early Modern English Catholic Community,” British Catholic History 35, no. 1 (2020): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2020.1. Past awardees include some of the leading scholars working in this field today (including her former advisor, Jesse Spohnholz in 2009). Binczewski was feted at the award ceremony at the society’s conference this last weekend in San Diego, California.
Congratulations, Jennifer!
Karoline (Kaja) Cook, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department from Fall 2013 through Spring 2016, writes that her article “Claiming Nobility in the Monarquía Hispánica: The Search for Status by Inca, Aztec, and Nasrid Descendants at the Habsburg Court” has won the Natalie Zemon Davis Prize for best article published in Renaissance and Reformation in 2020. Here is a link about the prize with a link to Kaja’s article:
Kaja is a Lecturer in the History of the Atlantic World at Royal Holloway University of London. Here’s a link to her Royal Holloway website: https://royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/history/about-us/our-staff/karoline-cook/