Scholarships and Awards

Noriko Kawamura is awarded the Craft Professorship

The Department would like to congratulate Dr. Noriko Kawamura who has been selected as the first Arnold M. and Atsuko Craft Professor! Her professorship begins August 16, 2018, and will be available to her through August 15, 2021. The Craft Professorship is intended to assist professors with the funding of scholarly, creative, and instructional activity.

An Arnold M. and Atsuko Craft Professor is expected to teach both undergraduate and graduate courses while sustaining a scholarly program during the professorship. Dr. Kawamura will, indeed, continue in an important role in the department as she looks forward to expanding her research with this wonderful gift!

Sue Peabody is awarded the Pinkney Prize

Sue Peabody, Meyer Distinguished Professor of History of WSU Vancouver, is this year’s recipient of the Society for French Historical Studies’ David Pinkney Prize for the best book on any aspect of French history by a U.S. or Canadian author in 2017 for her book, Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies (Oxford UP). A short excerpt about the award and selection process follows:

“The Society for French Historical Studies awards the David H. Pinkney Prize to the most distinguished book in French history, published for the first time the preceding year by a citizen of the United States or Canada or by an author with a full-time appointment at an American or Canadian college or university.  Books focusing on any historical period or type of history may be considered, but unpublished or edited works are ineligible.”

Department recognized in celebration of assessment excellence

The Department of History is honored to receive praise from the Office of Assessment of Teaching and Learning for the success of the general history courses being offered and the success of the Roots of Contemporary Issues UCORE program. History as a whole department was recognized for its high quality learning and assessment practices, while RCI was recognized for its exemplary student-learning assessment system for a UCORE program in partnership with WSU Libraries.