In excellent news for the university, Jenny Thigpen has agreed to serve as the new director of the ADVANCE program at WSU. Read about her position and the program here: https://news.wsu.edu/news/2022/08/26/new-advance-director-focuses-on-mentoring-female-diverse-faculty/
Ken Faunce was interviewed for the August issue of Washington State Magazine on the pursuit of happiness:
https://magazine.wsu.edu/2022/08/01/and-the-pursuit-of-happiness/
The Hanford History Project was awarded a two-year grant from the National Park Service, “Create Digital Media to Share African American Narratives Related to the Manhattan Project” and Robert Franklin will be the PI on the grant and oversee execution.
“This project will create a suite of digital interpretive products that will share the African American migration, segregation, and civil rights history associated with the Manhattan Project at Hanford, WA.Source materials produced through this project, Documenting the African American Migration, Segregation, & Civil Rights History at Manhattan Project National Historical Park (MAPR), Hanford will inform these new interpretive products. Articles, oral history vignettes, a story map and an in-depth digital walking tour will be developed. The goal is to broaden the racial and age diversity of park visitors through digital interpretive products that share diverse and inclusive perspectives as well as engage youth.”
Lawrence Hatter was a guest on Spokane Public Radio to discuss quoting America’s founders:
Julian Dodson will be presenting his latest research at the Pacific Coast Branch of the AHA this August. The paper is titled “Deception and Danger: Women, the Mexican Confidential Department, and Cross-border Espionage, 1923-1929”
Dr. John Finkelberg is an instructor in the Roots of Contemporary Issues program at Washington State University and specializes in the history of menswear and modern capitalism in Europe and North America. His research interests include fashion history, gender and sexuality studies, economic history, and visual culture. Dr. Finkelberg finished his PhD in History at the University of Michigan in 2022. He also earned a MA in History and Literature from Columbia University in 2014, and a BA in History from Dartmouth College in 2013.
Dr. Finkelberg is currently working on his first book project, Becoming a Man in the Age of Fashion: Gender and Menswear in Nineteenth-Century France, which is based on his dissertation research. This project examines the production, sale, use, and representation of menswear in France from 1830 to 1870. More specifically, Finkelberg examines how the menswear industry transitioned from specializing in bespoke tailoring to mass-produced ready-to-wear. Dr. Finkelberg is also the author of “English Dandies and French Lions,” in The Male Body in Representation edited by Silvia Gerlsbeck and Carmen Dexl (Springer 2022), and the co-author of “Fashion in the Life of George Sand” published in Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body, and Culture (2020). His new article, “Dressing the Part: King Louis-Philippe I, Tailoring, and Fashioning the July Monarchy,” will appear in the Fall 2022 issue of Dix-Neuf.
Karl Krotke-Crandall has accepted the position of Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Eastern European History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
