Andra Chastain won a 2022 New Faculty Seed Grant for her project entitled “Global Urban Histories in the Americas: Santiago, Chile,” which includes support to complete revisions her book Chile Underground: The Santiago Metro and the Struggle for a Rational City, as well as preliminary research for a new project on the history of urban air pollution in the Americas.
Peter Boag’s latest book is now out: https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295750637/pioneering-death/
The Oregon Historical Society (OHS) is hosting a book launch event on June 8th and 7pm at OHS in downtown Portland: https://www.ohs.org/events/pioneering-death.cfm
Pamela Lee, ABD, published her review of Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914 in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 52, No.4 (Spring 2022): 605-606.
Sue Peabody will host another screening of the film “Furcy: le procès de la liberté,” at the French Colonial Historical Society meeting, where she will also chair two panels: the roundtable “MicroHistory and French Colonialism,” and “Representing Slavery in Museums: Challenges and Approaches.”
Kyley Canion-Brewer will present her paper, “What Remains? Decolonization in the History of the AfricaMuseum (1897 – 2020),” based on her M.A. thesis with Dr. Sun, at the French Colonial Historical Society annual meeting in Charleston, South Carolina, on May 14, 2022.
The exhibit Laurie Mercier co-curated, Building Solidarity for 30 Years: Portland Jobs with Justice, is on display at the Oregon Historical Society until May 16, 2022.
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Laurie Mercier published “Oral History with Margaret Butler: Advocate for Workers’ Rights and Jobs with Justice,” in the recent Oregon Historical Quarterly (Spring 2022): pp 80-107.
Kristen Coan Howard (BA in History, WSU 2012) just accepted a tenure-track librarian position at McGill University. While at WSU, Howard worked with Jesse Spohnholz on research into gender and the Reformation in sixteenth-century Geneva, work that she continued in her 2020 PhD from the University of Arizona. In 2022, she completed a Masters in Information Sciences at McGill.
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.
Bob Bauman and Robert Franklin won a 2022 Arts and Humanities Fellowship for their book project entitled Tri-Cities Latinx Community Oral History Project.