{"id":999,"date":"2017-05-17T13:26:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T20:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/?page_id=999"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:53:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:53:59","slug":"2018-events-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/2018-events-news\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Events & News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vancouver welcomes world historian Andra Chastain
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\"Andra<\/a>The History department is happy to welcome Dr. Andra Chastain, who will join the faculty this fall as an assistant professor on the Vancouver campus. Dr. Chastain holds her PhD from Yale University and is a historian of modern Latin American and World history. Her dissertation is titled Vehicle of Progress: The Santiago Metro, Technopolitics, and State Formation in Chile, 1965\u20131989<\/em>, and is a study of collaborations between Chilean and French engineers in the building of the Santiago metro, one of the largest infrastructure projects in modern Chile. She has published articles in the Journal of Urban History <\/em>and Revista de Historia Iberoamericana <\/em>on urban planning exchanges between Chile and California. She will be teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Latin American and World history, as well as History 105 and courses required for History majors.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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History welcomes 3 faculty transfers from Women’s Studies<\/span><\/h3>\n

In July 2018, the WSU Department of Critical Culture, Gender, & Race Studies (CCGRS) will merge with the Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures to form the new School of Languages, Cultures, and Race, and the Women\u2019s Studies program will move to the Department of English. Fortunately for the History department, three Women\u2019s Studies faculty chose to join the History department. Our three new colleagues are Drs. Linda Heidenreich, Jen Barclay, and Luz Maria Gordillo (Vancouver).<\/p>\n

\"Linda<\/a>
Heidenreich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr. Heidenreich teaches courses in Chicana\/Chicano history, Queer history, and the history and culture of 19th-Century Mexico and the southwestern US borderlands. She will be offering new courses in these areas and spearhead creation of a Chicana\/Chicano Studies minor, which will include a number of History courses. Her research is broadly interdisciplinary and focuses on questions of gender and identity in the borderlands region.<\/p>\n

\"Jenifer<\/a>
Barclay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr. Barclay received her PhD from Michigan State University and is an African-American historian and a historian of disability. She will teach new courses in these fields and will continue her research on the lived experiences of enslaved people with disabilities in Antebellum America.<\/p>\n

\"Luz<\/a>
Gordillo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr. Gordillo’s research and teaching interests include transnational and immigration studies and the history of global feminism. Her latest book, Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration: Engendering Transnational Ties<\/em> (University of Texas Press, 2010), won the 2011\u00a0Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists (ALLA) Book Award. All three will enrich the History catalogue while continuing to contribute to the Women\u2019s Studies program.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Bachelor’s of Arts in History goes “Global” with new online major<\/span><\/h3>\n

Beginning in fall 2018, WSU will offer the History major through WSU Global, allowing students around the state, country, and world to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in History entirely online. The department has been teaching courses online for many years, but students were not able to complete the degree through online courses alone. This fall, all of that will change.<\/p>\n

We have expanded the number of online offerings, including History 300 and History 469, and we have revised and updated existing courses. WSU expects the History BA to be one of the most popular online majors. We look forward to extending the opportunity for students everywhere to gain from the experience of majoring in History at WSU. Dr. Jennifer Thigpen will be the department\u2019s new Coordinator of Online Programs.<\/p>\n

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Roots of Contemporary Issues and the department welcome 3 new post-doc instructors<\/span><\/h3>\n

As the academic year comes to a close we look forward to welcoming our new post docs in the fall! Brenna Miller, Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, and Sarah Walsh will be moving in to the department in August where they will begin teaching HIST 105, Roots of Contemporary Issues courses!<\/p>\n

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Brenna is coming to us from Ohio State University and has just completed her dissertation, Between Faith and Nation: Defining Bosnian Muslims in Tito\u2019s Yugoslavia, 1945\u20131980<\/em>. She looks forward to teaching in her fields, which include Modern Europe, Empires and Nations in Eastern Europe, 1500\u2013present, and Global History II.<\/p>\n

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Ben is making the Coug transition from his position as a postdoctoral Fellow at Arizona State University\u2019s School of Transborder Studies. He graduated from Emory University in 2016 upon the completion of his dissertation, Cultivating the State: Migrants, Citizenship, and the Transformation of the Bolivian Lowlands, 1952\u20132000<\/em>. Ben has taught the following subjects: Transborder Theory, Transnational Americas, and Migration in Latin American. TA for Nazi Germany, History of Quebec, and World History.<\/p>\n

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Sarah is joining us from the University of Lisbon where she is currently a postdoctoral research fellow. Sarah graduated with her PhD from the University of Maryland in 2013. She looks forward to connecting HIST 105 with the following topics in which she specializes: The Problem of Race, The Other in History (Graduate Seminar), Research Methods (Gender and Science in 20C).<\/p>\n

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161st Infantry Regiment Project <\/span><\/h3>\n