{"id":1005,"date":"2017-05-17T13:30:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T20:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/?page_id=1005"},"modified":"2018-05-11T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T21:56:10","slug":"2018-graduate-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/2018-graduate-news\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Graduate News"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"builder-section-1463433288394\" class=\"row single h1-header gutter pad-top pad-bottom\">\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column one \">\n<h2>Graduate Student Spotlight<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1462814850565\" class=\"row single gutter pad-top pad-bottom\">\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column one \">\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000\">Jennifer Binczewski completes her PhD<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Jennifer Binczewski received her doctoral degree in December 2017 after successfully defending her dissertation, <em>Solitary Sparrows: Widowhood and the Catholic Community in Post-Reformation England, 1580\u20131630,<\/em> in November.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1474\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/2017-graduate-news\/binczewski\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1474\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1474 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2018\/04\/binczewski-198x198.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Binczewski with graduate faculty advisor Dr.\u00a0Jesse Spohnholz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jennifer received several awards during her time at WSU.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2014 David Rogers Research Award from the Catholic Record Society.<\/li>\n<li>2015 Honorable Mention for the Founders\u2019 Dissertation Fellowship from the Western Association of Women Historians,<\/li>\n<li>2016 John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Award from the American Catholic Historical Association<\/li>\n<li>2017 Carl S. Meyer Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society &amp; Conference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She just welcomed her second daughter on April 6, so her immediate future plan is to enjoy motherhood with two wonderful girls. In addition, in November, she will present in a panel she organized for the Sixteenth Century Society Conference in New Mexico. She also is currently working on a journal article manuscript that examines international networks facilitated by Catholic widows&#8217; households in England.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1524779363672\" class=\"row single h1-header gutter gray-lightly-back pad-top pad-bottom\">\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column one \">\n<h1>Graduate Student Highlights<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1463433361529\" class=\"row single gutter gray-lightly-back pad-top pad-bottom\">\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column one \">\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000\">Ryan Booth prepares for NEH Institute and celebrates a year full of honorable mentions and presentations<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/2018-graduate-news\/booth\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1081\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1081 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2017\/05\/Booth-198x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a>Ryan Booth, a PhD student working under the guidance of Professor Peter Boag, has spent the 2017-18 academic year presenting his scholarly research, applying for and receiving fellowship awards, and preparing to attend a summer institution in Walla Walla, Washington.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Booth was invited to speak at the Gonzaga University event, &#8220;They Are Always at the Front: Native American Soldiers in the Great War.&#8221; A busy and very successful spring semester followed! Spring welcomed a published book review in H-Net,\u00a0as well as his selection to receive the James H. Bradley Fellowship from the Montana historical Society. He also was awarded a Russel F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grant for his research in military history.<\/p>\n<p>This summer Ryan and Professor Katy Fry will attend a two-week institute, &#8220;The Native American West: A Case Study of the Columbia Plateau&#8221; at Whitman College in Walla Walla.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1456952581826\" class=\"row single gutter pad-top\">\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column one \">\n<h3 class=\"article-title\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000\">Taylor Hermsen spotlighted on WSU Insider and awarded a fellowship due to subject of research<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/2018-graduate-news\/booth\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1081\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taylor Hermsen is a PhD student studying with Professor Jeff Sanders. Hermsen&#8217;s research focuses on the development of the Washington wine industry, particularly in eastern Washington, over the last 80 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/2018-graduate-news\/hermsen\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1488\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1488 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2018\/04\/hermsen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"182\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Four years ago,\u00a0on his way home\u00a0to Walla Walla\u00a0from school in Arizona,\u00a0Taylor Hermsen was thumbing through an in-flight magazine when he was struck by\u00a0an\u00a0idea\u00a0for his\u00a0doctoral research&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The above excerpt comes straight from the WSU Insider article that was published to the Cougs Life, &#8220;Food and Agriculture&#8221; section this March. Article author, Will Ferguson, truly captured Hermsen&#8217;s passion for the topic and included the mention of Hermsen&#8217;s Boeing Graduate Fellowship in Environmental Studies, quoted below.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The Boeing Graduate Fellowship in Environmental Studies supports the multidisciplinary study of environmental issues and is made possible by a generous\u00a0endowment\u00a0from The Boeing Company.\u202f More than two\u00a0dozen students have received the Boeing fellowship since it was established in 1994.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1524848800117\" class=\"row single gutter gray-lightly-back pad-top pad-bottom\">\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column one \">\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000\">Karl Krotke-Crandall receives an award for his dissertation<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/2018-graduate-news\/krotke-crandall\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1491\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1491 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2018\/04\/Krotke-Crandall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Karl Krotke-Crandall\u00a0applied for the Stephen F. Cohen-Robert C. Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship in the fall of 2017 and his dissertation, &#8220;The Holocaust in Russian Life: New Perspectives on Soviet Jewish Memory,&#8221; was chosen to receive this very prestigious award sponsored by the<em> Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Cohen-Tucker Fellowship sponsors U.S. students to travel abroad to Russia to participate in one year&#8217;s worth of doctoral research during the final stages of their doctoral program. This fellowship, established in 2015, offers up to $22,000 of support for Karl as he wraps up his research in the months ahead. Learn more about the Stephen F. Cohen-Robert C. Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship and the <em>Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aseees.org\/programs\/ctdrf\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1525366005725\" class=\"row single gutter pad-top\">\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column one \">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/2018-graduate-news\/bunchgrass\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1577\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000\">JT Menard and Claire Thornton see previous work published during 2017-2018 academic year<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>John Tappan Menard\u2019s History 469 research project, which he wrote in the Spring of 2014 (faculty mentor <a href=\"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/2018-graduate-news\/spring_2016_cover_850_large-columbia\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1576\"><u><\/u><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1576 \" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2018\/05\/Spring_2016_cover_850_large-columbia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a>Dr. David Stratton) <em>\u00a0The Civilian Conservation Corps: A Case Study of the Fort George Wright District and Camp F-188<\/em><br \/>\nWas published as \u201cRoosevelt\u2019s Grand Experiment: The Civilian Conservation Corps in the Northwest,\u201d\u00a0<em>Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History<\/em>, Vol 30, no 3. (2016): 13-20.<\/p>\n<p>The article is also hosted in full on the department website <a href=\"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/documents\/2016\/09\/j-t-menard-columbia-magazine-article.pdf\/\">here<\/a>! Although this work was completed as an undergraduate student,\u00a0John Tappan Menard is now\u00a0pursuing his MA degree in History.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/2018-graduate-news\/bunchgrass\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1577\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1577 \" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2018\/05\/bunchgrass-792x1207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2018\/05\/bunchgrass-792x1207.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2018\/05\/bunchgrass-396x603.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2018\/05\/bunchgrass-768x1170.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2018\/05\/bunchgrass-990x1508.jpg 990w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2018\/05\/bunchgrass.jpg 1173w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>Claire Thornton\u2019s paper\u00a0<em>The GI&#8217;s of Washington State College\u00a0<\/em>originated in a History 300 class in 2014. She turned it into an Honors Thesis project\u00a0<em>The GI Bill at WSC: An Understanding Through Oral Histories <\/em>(faculty mentor Dr. Lydia Gerber).\u00a0It was published last August as\u00a0&#8220;The GI Bill at WSC\u201d\u00a0in the\u00a0<em>Bunchgrass Historian<\/em>,\u00a0Volume 43, Number 2, 2017, 14-27.<\/p>\n<p>Claire is currently finishing an MA in Education here at WSU with a period of student teaching at Clarkston Highschool.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate Student Spotlight Jennifer Binczewski completes her PhD Jennifer Binczewski received her doctoral degree in December 2017 after successfully defending her dissertation, Solitary Sparrows: Widowhood and the Catholic Community in Post-Reformation England, 1580\u20131630, in November. 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