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.
Eugene Smelyansky was interviewed by Antony Kaldellis (History, University of Chicago) for the “Byzantium and Friends” podcast. They discussed Eugene’s new book, Medievalism and Russia, and Russia’s history of claiming Byzantine heritage as a justification for its imperial expansion. The episode can be accessed here: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-i5uih-15eb7ea
Brenna Miller and Jesse Spohnholz just published a new article: “Backward Design and Forward Thinking in the Introductory World History Course: Recentering World War I as an African and African Diasporic Experience.” World History Bulletin 89, no. 2 (2023) as part of a Special Issue dedicated to “Democratizing, Diversifying, and Decolonizing the World History Survey.”
Jess Spohnholz has received the Faculty Peer Mentoring award. This award recognizes outstanding faculty peer mentoring and enrichment of peer-to-peer relationships between faculty members of all ranks, between faculty and staff, and across the college and the institution.
Brenna Miller has won the Excellence in Teaching by Career Track Faculty Member Award. The award is designed to specifically honor career-track faculty members who epitomize the highest levels of performance and excellence and who provide a vital role in teaching WSU students in the pursuit of the university’s goals and thereby in the fulfillment of its mission.
L Heidenreich presented “From Malintzin to La Tules: Chicana Historians ‘Writing Against the Grain'” at the 2024 William L. Davis Symposium at Gonzaga University.
Sue Peabody’s article, “Bissette and the Police des Noirs in the Nineteenth Century: Free Soil and Patronage.” French Colonial History, 21-22 (2023): 1-40, is available via the website: https://frenchcolonial.org/journal/.