{"id":1009,"date":"2017-05-17T13:37:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T20:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/?page_id=1009"},"modified":"2018-05-14T15:38:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T22:38:35","slug":"2018-alumni-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/2018-alumni-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Alumni spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"builder-section-1461188519438\" class=\"row single h1-header gutter pad-top\">\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column one \">\n<h1>Alumni Spotlight<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1463499654675\" class=\"row single gutter pad-top pad-bottom\">\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column one \">\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000\">Philip W. Travis, PhD<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>During the past academic year Philip W. Travis (PhD 2014) published his first academic monograph titled\u00a0<i>Reagan&#8217;s War on Terrorism in Nicaragua: The Outlaw State\u00a0<\/i>as well as an article titled &#8220;\u00d3scar Arias\u00a0and the Treaty of Esquipulas.&#8221; The article was published with the\u00a0<i>Oxford Encyclopedia of Latin American History\u00a0<\/i>and was based, in part, on a firsthand interview with former President of Costa Rica and Nobel Prize recipient\u00a0\u00d3scar Arias S\u00e1nchez.<a href=\"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/2017-history-newsletter\/p-travis\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1513\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1513\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2018\/04\/P.TRAVIS-198x198.jpg\" alt=\"Philip Travis.\" width=\"168\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Travis, who is currently an associate professor of history at State College of Florida, lives in Sarasota, and has made guest appearances on public radio, speaking about both his book\u2014which is\u00a0available for purchase\u00a0as a hard cover text\u00a0and will be re-released in paperback this summer 2018\u2014and his interview and article with\u00a0\u00d3scar Arias S\u00e1nchez.\u00a0In addition, Dr. Travis has written a chapter in an edited volume that is being published with I.B. Tauris later this summer 2018. This most recent publication is titled &#8220;The United States and Nicaragua: State Terrorism During the Late Cold War,&#8221; in: Adrian H\u00e4nni, Thomas Riegler, Przemyslaw Gasztold (eds.),\u00a0<i>Terrorism in the Cold War: State Involvement and Covert Operations\u00a0<\/i>(London: I.B. Tauris, forthcoming).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/2018-alumni-spotlight\/nicaragua-travis-book\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1559\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1559 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2018\/05\/nicaragua-travis-book-198x198.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of book cover &quot;Reagan's War on Terrorism in Nicaragua; The Outlaw State.&quot;\" width=\"198\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a>Dr. Travis is currently working on two new projects and has organized a panel at this year&#8217;s annual Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) conference in Philadelphia. Travis is grateful for the guidance and mentoring that he received from his doctoral committee chair, Noriko Kawamura, and Matt A. Sutton. These two scholars, Dr. Travis said, are invaluable to his own success and are great assets to the WSU Department of History.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumni Spotlight Philip W. Travis, PhD During the past academic year Philip W. 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