Nik Overtoom presented two papers at the Brill Publishers’ workshop held at the University of Amsterdam. These papers represent two chapters that he is contributing to volumes on War Violence in Antiquity and Concepts of Courage and Cowardice in Antiquity.
Puck Brecher has published the following chapter: “War Games: The Meiji Shrine Games (1924-43) as Civil Religion,” in Religion and Sport in Japan, eds. Zachary Smith, Stephen Covell, and Dennis Frost (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2024).
Sue Peabody published “Barriers to Accessing France’s Sol Libre in Early Modern France.” In The European Experience in Slavery, 1650–1850. Edited by Rebekka von Mallinckrodt. Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2024.
Ray Sun gave a public talk at the Seattle Holocaust Center for Humanity: “Revisioning the Shoah: Reflections on Incorporating the Roma Genocide into Holocaust History,” to mark the opening of a special exhibit, “Forgotten Victims: The Nazi Genocide of the Roma and the Sinti,” June 30-August 25, 2024; Seattle Holocaust Center for Humanity (in collaboration with the Wiener Holocaust Library, London). https://www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/#calendar-f430ff71-87fe-49ad-b029-797789a96d9f-event-lw85t5fx
Bob Bauman has just been appointed the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education on the Tri-Cities campus. His appointment starts August 1. In this position, his duties will include serving as a member of the campus executive team and as the campus Chief Research Officer and facilitating the research operations of the campus, including faculty mentorship opportunities, research collaborations, system-wide research initiatives, external research partnerships, and graduate education.
Puck Brecher gave a lecture at the National Japanese History Museum in Japan. The talk was titled “Muyo no mono no yūyō-sei: Sōzōbutsu to shite no Nihon ōkami” (Uses of the useless: The Japanese wolf as allegory).
Andra Chastain published a book review of Periferia: Poblaciones y desarrollo urbano en Santiago de Chile, 1920-1940, by Simón Castillo Fernández and Waldo Vila Muga. The review appeared in Spanish in Revista Historia y Patrimonio, an urban studies journal published by the University of Chile. https://rhp.uchile.cl/index.php/RHP/article/view/74326/76498
Robert Franklin (PI) and Phil Mudd (DTC, WSU Tri-Cities – Co-PI) received funding for the Documenting Undertold Narratives of the Manhattan Project at Hanford P24AC01008-00 Grant. The goal of the project is to marry archival holdings and oral histories with contemporary interviews to produce a series of podcasts documenting undertold narratives of the Manhattan Project, focusing on Tribal perspectives, African Americans, women, atomic bomb survivors, downwinders, and LGBTQ project workers. The project is currently funded for $67K through 12/2026
Marlene Gaynair presented her paper “Xavier Leads Sepia Brigade as Race Stars Dominate Relays” HBCU Triumphs and the Rise of Jamaican Sprinting Excellence at the Penn Relays at the 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) in Denver, Colorado on May 26th, 2024.
Sue Peabody presented her paper, “The Collaborative Art of Graphic Biography: ‘I am Not a Refugee,’” at the French Colonial Historical Society, along with novelist Patti Flinn and Parks Canada public historian and YA author John Johnston in May, 2024. Next year’s meeting will be in Buffalo, New York.