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Dr. Spohnholz New Book Available

Jesse Spohnholz’s new co-written book, Dutch Reformed Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1550­-1620: A Reformation of Refugees (University of Rochester Press, 2024) has been published. There’s a copy in the Departmental Office in Pullman, and the book is also available open access at https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.10782306. The book is the final product of the project he co-directed from 2015 to 2023 based at the Free University Amsterdam and funded by a €750,000 grant from the Dutch Research Council.

Dr. Booth Stage Reading of Antíkoni

Dr. Ryan Booth appeared in a stage reading of Beth Piatote’s (Nimiipuu) latest play entitled Antíkoni. It is an adaptation of the Greek tragedy, Antigone. In this telling, the Plateau worldview is on clear display and is very much an Indigenous take on colonization, assimilation, NAGPRA, and other timely issues. The story originally appeared in Dr. Piatote’s award-winning book of short stories called The Beadworkers.

The reading occurred at The Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center at Gonzaga University. It was sponsored by the Native American Studies Program. It will live on the Internet until June 30, here is the link: https://youtu.be/AAvbAAZ-gR0?si=ktea4fgvyO2jL5Kb

Dr. Spohnholz and Dr. Miller Win NEH Grant

Jesse Spohnholz and Brenna Miller have been awarded a Humanities Initiatives at College and Universities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The two-year grant, “Writing History Curriculum for the 21st Century” offers course releases to WSU History faculty to turn existing or new lessons for History 105 courses into two-week teaching modules for the History for the 21st Century project that Spohnholz and Miller are working on. The two also just got back from the AHA, where they presented on writing student-centered curriculum for introductory world history courses, based on their experience designing and teaching the first around of teaching materials for History for the 21st Century.

Dr. Marshall Presents Paper

Jodie Marshall presented a paper called “Women’s social labor and the creation of Omani-Swahili Identity” at Colorful Threads: The Interwoven Worlds of Art and Culture in the Western Indian Ocean hosted at The Africa Institute in Sharjah, UAE.

Dr. Overtoom Chapter Published

Nikolaus Overtoom’s chapter “Logistics and Strategy in the Hellenistic World: Parthians and Seleucids,” will be published later this month in Brill’s Companion to Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare. Brill’s Companions in Classical Studies Series: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Vol 8. Brill. J. Donahue and L. Brice (eds.). 258-86.

Dr. Sanders Chapter Published

Jeff Sanders published “History Uncontained at the B Reactor,” a chapter in Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure. The book is the final product of a series of workshops as part of the Oregon State University Downwinders Project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. His contribution first appeared as a paper at the 2020 workshop: “75 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure.”

Dr. Booth Selected as Clements Center Symposium Scholar

The Clements Center at Southern Methodist University selected Ryan Booth as a symposium scholar for 2024-2025. The symposium is entitled “Rethinking the Indian Wars.” Booth will contribute a book chapter on the subject of death and burial of US Army soldiers (particularly the US Indian Scouts and Black regulars). Clements Center symposia are held at SMU’s Taos campus and a public presentation will be held in Tempe, Arizona in cooperation with the Arizona Historical Society in 2025. The University of Nebraska Press has agreed to publish the collection.

Ryan Booth is one of twelve authors. He will be joined by Nathan Braccio (Lesley), Bonnie Cherry (Berkeley Law), Greg Downs (UC Davis), Luis Garcia (U de Monterrey), Ari Kelman (UC Davis), Stuart Marshall (Sewanee), Nick Myers (National Park Service), Darren Parry (Utah), Sherry Smith (SMU), Lindsay Stallones Marshall (Illinois State), and Cecily Zander (Texas Woman’s U).

https://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Research/Institutes-and-Centers/SWCenter/Symposia/Future/IndianWars

Dr. Spohnholz Presented Paper in Baltimore, MD

Jesse Spohnholz presented a research paper titled “Defining and Preserving Community in Exile: Baptismal Practices of Dutch Reformed Refugees in Cologne” at Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, on October 27th in Baltimore, MD. While here, he also chaired a panel on the book, The Church of the Dead, which investigates the creation of Indigenous Catholicism in colonial Mexico following the devastating 1576 smallpox epidemic.