Dr. Miller and Dr. Spohnholz Article Published
claudia.mickasBrenna 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.”
Dr. Spohnholz Wins Faculty Peer Mentoring Award
claudia.mickasJess 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.
Dr. Miller Wins Excellence in Teaching by Career Track Faculty Member Award
claudia.mickasBrenna 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.
Dr. Heidenreich Presents at Symposium
claudia.mickasL Heidenreich presented “From Malintzin to La Tules: Chicana Historians ‘Writing Against the Grain'” at the 2024 William L. Davis Symposium at Gonzaga University.
Dr. Peabody’s Article Available
claudia.mickasSue 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/.
Dr. Peabody Presents Paper
claudia.mickasSue Peabody presented her paper, “Teaching the Criminalization of Migration and Activism through Graphic Memoir,” CINETS-Border Crimmigration Conference, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR, 2 March 2024.
Dr. Spohnholz New Book Available
claudia.mickasJesse 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
claudia.mickasDr. 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
claudia.mickasJesse 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.