Aaron Jesch has been invited to present (and sing) at the upcoming Pacific Northwest Labor History Association conference to be held at the Washington State Historical Society in Tacoma, May 6, “Songs and Poems of the Industrial Workers of the World.” Last summer Jesch received a competitive Sam Fishman Travel Grant from the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.
PhD candidate James Schroeder has won the College of Arts and Sciences and Center for Arts and Humanities Frank Fraser and Irene Potter Scholarship.
History major Alicia Callahan won the Crimson Award (1st place) in the Arts and Humanities category at SURCA. Her poster presentation, which was based on her Honors thesis, was about the combat experience and traumatic personal memories of the soldiers of the 6th Armored Division, who fought continuously for nine months in the European Theater of WW2 and liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. Her faculty advisor is Ray Sun. More information may be found here.
Sreya Mukherjee has been selected as one of the winners for the GPSA Excellence Awards, 2022-23 under the category Graduate Teaching Assistant.
Berit Davis and Jessica O’Rourke were selected to be part of the Publicly Engaged Fellowship Cohort by the Center for Arts and Humanities. More information can be found here.
PhD student Jennifer Moran’s review of Letras y Limpias: Neocolonial Medicine and Holistic Healing in Mexican American Literature (Arizona, 2021) was published in Chicana/Latina Studies 22 no.1 (Fall 2022): 164-166.
MA student Victor Moore has had his first book review published in the Journal of Caribbean History.
PhD student Aaron Jesch recently gave a presentation at the Pacific Northwest History Conference held in Tri-Cities on September 30, about the Performativity of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).