Ray Sun will be the speaker at the Spokane Jewish community’s Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) commemoration on April 20, and this article appeared before the event in The Fig Tree, a small regional paper dedicated to interfaith dialogue and cooperation. Here’s the link: https://www.thefigtree.org/april23/040123raysunyomhashoah.html
Peter Boag’s new essay “As Silent as Two Graves: Linking Genocide and Parricide in Gilded Age Oregon,” appeared in the newly released Pacific Northwest Quarterly.
Sue Peabody (History, Vancouver) is thrilled to have been selected for a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 2023 Summer Stipend. She will complete the archival research for her book project, “The Failure of the Succès: Anatomy of a Slave Smuggling Voyage” in Paris and Nantes, while giving several invited lectures in Paris (Campus Condorcet, Sorbonne, Dartmouth Study Abroad) and Venice (Ca’ Foscari).
Nikolaus Overtoom’s proposal for a 2023 Fellowship, The Parthians at War: Combat, Logistics, Reputation, and the First War with Rome, has been selected for funding by the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities.
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.
