A presentation of the research being done in the 161st Infantry Regiment Project is being held at the Washington National Guard Museum on 03/03/2018 at Camp Murray!
Opening remarks will be offered by Professor Orlan Svingen before presentations are given by graduate students Jared Chastain and Laura Briere.
The History Graduation Student Association has announced the release of a new blog post! “The Daily Evergay,” is the second of a two-post series on WSU’s lesbian and gay history in the 1970s using articles from the student newspaper. GIESORC, the gay and lesbian center on campus, liked the articles and have some quotes on display in the library rotunda. Check out some there that didn’t make it into this post!
Please read here, comment, and share!
Graduate student Ryan Booth’s review of William Hogeland’s “Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion that Opened the West” was published to H-Net.org this month. See the book review here and share!
The first HGSA blog post of the New Year is now live! Follow this link to read Sam Fleischer’s post and learn about Hogmeat and Super Bowl history. Please read, comment, and share!
Undergraduate students in Dr. Mercier’s Women’s History course loved Michael Helquist’s book about the fiery and uncompromising radical physician Marie Equi. Students not only find Equi fascinating—a professional woman in a man’s world, an open lesbian, a committed activist for the causes affecting women and workers—but they especially connect to someone who lived in their own backyard of the Pacific Northwest. Helquist’s balanced, gracefully written, and accessible study pie…ces together scattered sources to tell a terrific story, one that introduces students to important themes of early 20th century, such as the Progressive era, suffrage movements, the IWW and workers’ struggles, the Red Scare, women’s social and political networks, and women’s health issues and illegal abortion. This is a book that will be useful to teachers and professors wishing to engage a wide variety and level of students.
Michael Helquist provided a detailed report of his visit to Washington State University Vancouver and his interaction with the students of HIST/WST 298. Take a look at his kind words here.
Congratulations Taylor Hermsen on being chosen to receive the College of Arts and Sciences Boeing Graduate Fellowship in Environmental Studies! Taylor was chosen based on the recommendation of the Dean’s Advisory Committee on Research and Creative Activities. Great work Taylor!
Jennifer Binczewski successfully defended her dissertation, “Solitary Sparrows: Widowhood and the Catholic Community in Post-Reformation England, 1580-1630,” on November 13th. Her research entailed work in twenty-one archives, hunting down evidence about scores of widowed women who supported underground Catholicism in Protestant England.
Congratulations Jennifer!
We are proud to highlight the work of graduate students Laura Briere and Jared Chastain, along with their faculty adviser, Professor Orlan Svingen. They were in College Park, Maryland last spring looking for information about the storied 161st Infantry Regiment when they mistakenly got off the elevator on the wrong floor. Take a look at their incredible story here in the WSU Insider News:
History project showcases rare footage of Washington’s 161st Infantry Regiment
Please join us in congratulating Jennifer Binczewski on this very impressive recognition!
Jennifer, a PhD candidate in our department, has been awarded the Meyer Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, the international scholarly organization devoted to interdisciplinary research on the early modern era (defined as c.1450-1660). The prize is awarded to the best conference paper delivered at the annual meeting by a scholar who is still in graduate school or has earned the Ph.D. in the last five years. At the 2016 conference in Bruges (Belgium) was entitled, “Bestowed Upon God: The Movements of Catholic Children in Post-Reformation England and Beyond.” Binczewski will be recognized at the 2017 conference in two weeks’ time.
Binczewski’s dissertation, from which this research came, is entitled “Solitary Sparrows: Widowhood and the Catholic Community in Post-Reformation England, 1580-1630.” She plans to defend this coming November.
Philip W. Travis, PhD, will be on the Peace and Justice Report on Sarasota Public Radio WSLR 96.5 at 9am eastern time, Wed. Oct. 4 discussing his recent book “Reagan’s War on Terrorism in Nicaragua: The Outlaw State.”
If you are interested in checking the program out it streams live and will be archived (follow the link below for the live stream and/or the archived program after the live broadcast).