{"id":1679,"date":"2019-04-19T10:18:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T17:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/?page_id=1679"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:51:36","slug":"department-events-and-news-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/department-events-and-news-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Events and News"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"wsu-article-header \">\r\n\t<h1 class=\"wsu-article-header__title\">\r\n\t\tDepartment Events and News\t<\/h1>\r\n\t\t<\/header>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--single\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Department welcomes new chair, Dr. Matthew Sutton, for 2019 &#8211; 2020.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-649 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2016\/01\/matthew-sutton-feb16_88x106.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"128\" \/>The summer the department is pleased to be welcoming Professor Matthew Sutton to the chair&#8217;s office as he prepares to assume leadership this fall.\u00a0 Dr. Sutton completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2005 and currently teaches courses in 20th century United States history, cultural history, and religious history. Furthermore, Dr. Sutton is looking forward to his new book releasing in September titled \u00a0<em>Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War.<\/em> Sutton has published articles in the Journal of American History, Religion &amp; American Culture, Church History, the Journal of Policy History, and the Public Historian as well as in numerous edited collections. His article,<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/jah.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/98\/4\/1052.extract\">\u201cWas FDR the Antichrist? The Birth of Fundamentalist Anti-liberalism in a Global Age,\u201d<\/a> <\/em>won the Organization of American Historians\u2019 Binkley-Stephenson Award for the best article published in the Journal of American History in 2012. Sutton has also written for the <i>New York Times <\/i>on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/26\/opinion\/why-the-antichrist-matters-in-politics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\"> Obama presidential campaign<\/a> and on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/25\/opinion\/the-day-christian-fundamentalism-was-born.html?searchResultPosition=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\"> origins of Christian fundamentalism<\/a>, as well as for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2015\/04\/22\/could-vladimir-putin-battle-the-antichrist-how-some-evangelicals-debate-the-end-times\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\"><i>Washington Post<\/i><\/a><em><span style=\"background: #edf3f4; padding: 0in; border: 1pt windowtext; color: black; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif,serif,'EmojiFont'; font-style: normal;\">, <\/span><\/em><i>Seattle Times <\/i><span class=\"x_MsoHyperlink\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/opinion\/jerusalem-trumps-gift-to-evangelicals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/opinion\/donald-trump-the-herald-of-evangelicals-end-times\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\"> here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/opinion\/why-hillary-clinton-needs-jesus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\"> here<\/a><\/span>), and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/feb\/21\/billy-graham-wrong-side-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\"><i>Guardian<\/i><\/a><em><span style=\"background: #edf3f4; padding: 0in; border: 1pt windowtext; color: black; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif,serif,'EmojiFont';\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-color-background--gray-15 wsu-row--single\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1802 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2019\/05\/overtoom-pic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"169\" \/>Welcoming Dr. Nikolaus Overtoom<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Nikolaus Overtoom will be joining us this fall to teach courses in Ancient Greek and Roman history.\u00a0 <span data-contrast=\"auto\">Overtoom (Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 2016) is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of New Mexico.\u00a0<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">He has previously taught as an instructor at LSU, Baton Rouge Community College, and Missouri State University. His book <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Reign of Arrows: The Rise of the Parthian Empire in the Hellenistic Middle East <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">is forthcomin<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">g from Oxford University Press!<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5421,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3543,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1679\/revisions\/3543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}