Karl Krotke-Crandall is the winner of the 2022 Excellence in Online Teaching Award.
This award seeks to acknowledge and reward those faculty teaching Global Campus courses who go the extra mile to inspire and engage students in learning, support and care about students, and encourage students to do and be their best.
Bob Bauman was presented the WSU Tri-Cities Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Excellence Award.
This award is given annually to a WSU Tri-Cities faculty member whose research, scholarship, or creative work is exemplary, and whose work has had a positive influence on the broader community. It is the campus’s highest research honor.
Sue Peabody’s essay “Microhistory and ‘Prize Negroes’: Reconstructing the Origins and Fates of African Captives in the Indian Ocean World through Serial Data,” has been published in Regenerated Identities: Documenting African Lives, Kartikay Chadha, Henry B. Lovejoy, Paul E. Lovejoy, Érika Melek Delgado, eds. Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora, https://africaworldpressbooks.com/regenerated-identities-documenting-african-lives-edited-by-paul-e-lovejoy-henry-b-lovejoy-erika-melek-delgado-and-kartikay-chadha/
Andra Chastain is presenting new research at Culture, State, and Empire in Latin America: A Conference in Honor of Gil Joseph, at Yale University, on Saturday, April 23.
Her paper examines French soft power in Chile as part of a panel on new directions in Cold War history.
Alan Malfavon’s dissertation “Kin of the Leeward Port: Afro-Mexicans in Veracruz in the Making of State Formation, Contested Spaces, and Regional Development, 1770-1830” won the honorable mention for the Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth Century Studies Section’s Best Dissertation 2022 Award.
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The panel of Andra Chastain, Aaron Whelchel, Sam Buechler (Library) and JoAnn LoSavio, Roots of Contemporary Issues HIST 105/305: Teaching Undergraduates Research, Writing, Resilience, and Social Justice, has been accepted for the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA) annual conference, which will take place Aug. 10 – 12, 2022, at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.
Sue Peabody’s essay, “Political and Legal Histories,” has just been published in Writing the History of Slavery, edited by David Doddington & Enrico Dal Lago, Bloomsbury “Writing History” Series (London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2022), 153-170. One of 19 historiographical chapters addressing different approaches to writing the history of slavery for students, this essay includes sections on “the political state as a frame,” “slavery and the law in the United States,” “comparative histories of slavery and abolition,” and “autobiography, biography, and microhistory.”
Nik Overtoom’s most recent book review has been published. Uwe Ellerbrock, The Parthians: The Forgotten Empire. Routledge. 2021. For Ancient History Bulletin. https://ancienthistorybulletin.org/vol-11/
Nik Overtoom’s most recent article has been published: “Phriapatius.” Encyclopædia Iranica Online. The Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University. 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2330-4804_EIRO_COM_363949
