Shawna Herzog presented a virtual lecture on “Negotiating Abolition: The Antislavery Project in the British Straits Settlements” on March 21. This lecture was open to all undergraduate and graduate students in History, as well as other members of the NIU community. Participants were invited to view the lecture and participate in the discussion session afterward.
Marlene Gaynair has been awarded an External Mentor Grant through ADVANCE @ WSU. Marlene will work with Dr. Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, to prepare her book proposal.
Laurie Mercier’s article, “Reaching into the Community to Interpret Labor History: A Museum-Labor-University Collaboration,” appears in the most recent Public Historian (2023) 45 (1): 73–99, https://online.ucpress.edu/tph.
L Heidenreich received a 2023 Mother Theodore Guerin Research Travel Grant for their project “Saintly Protest: Women Religious, Religious Women, and the United Farm Worker Movement.” They will be using the funds to travel to the Mexican American Studies archive (Our Lady of the Lake University) in San Antonio in Spring of 2024.
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
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