{"id":2683,"date":"2022-05-25T10:36:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T17:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/?page_id=2683"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:16:16","slug":"2022-alumni-updates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/2022-alumni-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Alumni Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every year we look forward to sharing the progress of our alumni!<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Trevor Bond<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Trevor Bond <\/strong>(PhD 2017), associate dean for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections at WSU, published Coming Home to Nez Perce Country: The Niim\u00edipuu Campaign to Repatriate Their Exploited Heritage<\/em> (WSU Press, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1847, missionary Henry Spalding shipped two barrels of \u201cIndian curiosities\u201d\u2014exquisite Nez Perce shirts, dresses, baskets, horse regalia, and more\u2014to an Ohio friend. The collection eventually made its way to a historical society, and in 1993, the tribe learned they could reclaim their materials. But only if they could raise $608,100 fast.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Greg Hall<\/h3>\n\n\n
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\"Writing<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Greg Hall<\/strong> (PhD 1999) authored a book forthcoming in August: Writing Labor\u2019s Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox <\/em>(University of Washington Press).
Jay Fox (1870\u20131961) was a journalist, intellectual, and labor militant, whose influence rippled across the country. In Writing Labor’s Emancipation<\/em>, Hall traces Fox’s unorthodox life to shed light on the shifting dynamics in U.S. labor radicalism from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hall is a professor of history at Western Illinois University<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Jacki Hedlund Tyler<\/h3>\n\n\n
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\"Leveraging<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Jacki Hedlund Tyler<\/strong> (PhD 2015) has published her first book, Leveraging an Empire: Settler Colonialism and the Legalities of Citizenship in the Pacific Northwest (University of Nebraska Press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through an evaluation of Oregon\u2019s exclusionary laws, Leveraging an Empire<\/em> examines the process of settler colonialism in the evolving region of the Pacific Northwest between the years 1841 and 1859. Oregon laws\u2014through nuanced emphases and new articulations\u2014related to national issues of slavery, immigration, land ownership, education, suffrage, and naturalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tyler is an assistant professor of history and director of Social Studies Education at Eastern Washington University.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer Binczewski<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer Binczewski <\/strong>(PhD 2017) won the Pacific Coast Conference for British Studies award for the best article published by a society member in 2020 for \u201cPower in Vulnerability: Widows and Priest Holes in the Early Modern English Catholic Community,\u201d <\/a>in British Catholic History<\/em> 35, no. 1 (2020): 1\u00ad-24. In addition, Binczewski won the 2021 Harold J. Grimm Prize for the best article in Reformation Studies (any discipline) published the previous year, awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference for her article, \u201cPower in Vulnerability: Widows and Priest Holes in the Early Modern English Catholic Community<\/a><\/em>,\u201d in British Catholic Histor<\/em>y 35, no. 1 (2020): 1\u201324.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Dulce Kersting-Lark<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dulce Kersting-Lark<\/strong> (MA 2013) won the Esto Perpetua Award from the Idaho State Historical Society. The award honors people and organizations who collect, preserve, and promote state and local history. Kersting-Lark is also the new head of the University of Idaho Library\u2019s special collections and archives, and serves on the board of the Idaho Association of Museums.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Brad Richardson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Brad Richardson<\/strong> (BA, WSU Vancouver, 2012), director of the Clark County Historical Museum, was awarded the David Douglas Award by the Washington State Historical Society. This award honors the significant contribution of an individual or organization through projects, exhibits, publications, or educational products that inform or expand appreciation of Washington state history.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":27711,"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\/2683"}],"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\/27711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3558,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2683\/revisions\/3558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}