Matt Sutton delivered the paper “Donald Trump, the Apocalypse, and the Role of Religion in Modern American Politics” at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany.
Lawrence Hatter won a 2022 Arts and Humanities Fellowship for the book project The Past is Never Dead: History, Law, and Indigenous Sovereignty on the U.S.-Canadian Border.
On May 11th from 4:30-6:00 pm, Latah County Historical Society is hosting an open house for Jessica O’Rourke’s exhibit titled “Inland Northwest Immigrants: Newcomers to Latah County,” housed in the historic McConnell Mansion.
The exhibit will be on display in the mansion until the end of August.
Alan Malfavon’s dissertation “Kin of the Leeward Port: Afro-Mexicans in Veracruz in the Making of State Formation, Contested Spaces, and Regional Development, 1770-1830” won the honorable mention for the Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth Century Studies Section’s Best Dissertation 2022 Award.
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Jennifer Binczewski (PhD 2017) won the Pacific Coast Conference for British Studies for the best article published by a society member in 2020 for “Power in Vulnerability: Widows and Priest Holes in the Early Modern English Catholic Community” British Catholic History 35, no. 1 (2020): 1-24.
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Jesse Spohnholz presented a plenary lecture at the 2022 Calvin Studies Symposium on April 1, titled “Family Life in Sixteenth-Century Dutch Calvinist Refugee Communities.”
Nik Overtoom’s most recent book review has been published. Uwe Ellerbrock, The Parthians: The Forgotten Empire. Routledge. 2021. For Ancient History Bulletin. https://ancienthistorybulletin.org/vol-11/
Nik Overtoom’s most recent article has been published: “Phriapatius.” Encyclopædia Iranica Online. The Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University. 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2330-4804_EIRO_COM_363949
Puck Brecher presented a research paper titled “Early Modern Japan’s Veterinary Medicine Makeover” at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.
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