PhD candidate James Schroder has received the Richard R. and Constance M. Albrecht Scholarship for the 2024-25 academic year from the WSU Graduate School.

Ryan Minton (BA History 2025 expected) has been named a summer fellow for the US Law and Race Initiative at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. This initiative, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, brings together large university teaching programs, immersive new forms of digital media content, and community partnership storytelling in order to begin to connect Americans to their history in ways that repair the fractures in our national understanding of race and racialization. The ten-week summer fellowship will include work in their Digital Legal Research Lab and provide an opportunity to try out graduate-level research, discussions, and exploration around the region.

For more information: https://uslawandrace.unl.edu/

PhD student Kyley Canion-Brewer has received a J.W. Scott Fellowship for 2024, with associated funding of $1000.

PhD candidate Pamela Lee’s Organized Panel proposal has been accepted to appear on the official program for the AAS 2024 Annual Conference, taking place in Seattle, WA, March 14-17, 2024.

PhD student Jen Moran was accepted as a summer Education Graduate Fellow with Latinos in Heritage Conservation.

MA student Jessica O’Rourke has been hired as Assistant Curator at the National Museum of Military Vehicles in Dubois, Wyoming. 

Samantha Edgerton has received the Richard R. and Constance M. Albrecht Scholarship for the 2023-24 academic year.