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“North American Indian History Precontact to Present”

Native American on horsebackDr. Orlan Svingen’s course, History 308, will be taught online this summer.  It is among core courses for the online American Indian Studies minor/certificate program at WSU.  The Washington State K-12 curriculum – which covers treaties, sovereignty, court rulings and other topics that tribes and neighboring communities address every day – is available online for free to school districts. Dr. Svingen’s course provides further exploration of these central topics along with updated tools for both new and veteran teachers of history and social sciences.  For more information, see the link to WSU News.

Dr. Jesse Spohnholz to give lecture in Amsterdan Mar. 21

Jesse SpohnholzDr. Jesse Spohnholz will be giving the plenary lecture at a conference on “Religious Migration during Europe’s Confessional Age” in Amsterdam on March 21. The conference is sponsored by the European Union and will be held at a church used by French-speaking refugees in the city starting in 1586.  A photograph of the church can be seen here  Amsterdam Church.

Dr. Lawrence Hatter’s latest book receives award

Lawrence HatterLawrence Hatter’s book Citizens of Convenience: Empire, Nationhood, and the Northern Border of the American Republic, 1783-1820 is the recipient of the 2016 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for “an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies” by the University of Virginia Press.  Citizens of Convenience will be published in early 2017.

Jen Corrinne Brown – PhD 2012, book noted in Spring ’16 Washington Magazine

Dr. Jen BrownA book by Dr. Jen Brown, PhD ’12, Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West, was highlighted in the spring 2016 issue of Washington State magazine. Brown grew up in Montana and learned to fly fish on the Beaverhead and Big Hole rivers while in college. She is now an assistant professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. While earning her PhD at Washington State University, she worked closely with her advisor, Dr. Jeff Sanders.

Interdisciplinary Innovation Challenge – Declining water resources on the Palouse

The College of Arts and Sciences Ambassadors’ IIC is inviting students to participate in a unique opportunity.  The application deadline is February 24.  Students from all majors/levels can engage in a team-based problem solution activity that will enhance academic and professional skills.  The winning team can receive up to $1,000 in scholarship money – for each team member!  For more information, see cas.wsu.edu/iic.  The flyer announcing this terrific opportunity can be seen here: Interdisciplinary Innovation Challenge.

Dr. Ken Faunce discusses “Just Mercy” in Washington State Magazine

Kenneth Faunce“I think this book has had a real impact on students,” says WSU history instructor Ken Faunce, who uses Just Mercy in his Roots of Contemporary Issues course. “We discuss a chapter every Friday.”  The book, required reading for first-year WSU students and incorporated into various course curricula as this year’s common reading program selection, has sparked numerous discussions among students, faculty, and staff about the troubling incongruities.  For the entire article, see the Spring 2016 edition of Washington State Magazine.

Karoline Cook’s latest book “Forbidden Passages” published May 2016

Karoline Kaja CookForbidden Passages is an engaging study of the slippage between social standing, social perception, and self-fashioning among Moriscos in both southern Spain and in the Spanish Americas. Karoline P. Cook demonstrates the complex religious and cultural environment inhabited by these men and women, providing a nuanced addition to our understanding of the early modern Iberian global world.”—Martin Nesvig, University of Miami.  See more about Dr. Cook’s latest book here.

H-Diplo Roundtable Review; Volume XVII, No. 14 – Jennifer Thigpen

Jennifer ThigpenA roundtable discussion on Jennifer Thigpen’s Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai‘i’s Pacific World  is now available   on H-Diplo.  The roundtable editor is Thomas Maddux and the discussion is introduced by Professor David Igler at the University of California-Irvine. The complete discussion with reviews and author’s response can be found here.