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Exciting News for Dr. Torsten Homberger

Torsten Homberger, who received his PhD working with Raymond Sun in 2014, is starting an appointment as a tenure-track assistant professor for modern European history in the History Department at the University of Nebraska-Kearney after a number of years on the faculty there as an Instructor.  https://www.unk.edu/academics/history/torsten-homberger.php

He is also publishing a revised version of his dissertation with the University of Massachusetts Press, forthcoming in November 2021.  Here is the link to his book:  The Honor Dress of the Movement (umasspress.com)

Congratulations Dr. Homberger!

Alan Malfavon


 

 

 

 

 

 

Wilson-Short Hall 351
509-335-3354
alan.malfavon@wsu.edu

 

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 2021
M.A., University of California, Riverside, 2017
B.A., California State University, Northridge, 2015

Academic and Research Interests

Dr. Malfavon is a first-generation, migrant, Jarocho, and Mexican-American scholar. Dr. Alan Malfavon received his Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of California, Riverside in 2021. Malfavon is a historian of late-colonial and early independent Latin America. His research interests center around Afro-Mexican, Greater Caribbean, Atlantic World, Veracruz, and African Diaspora Histories. His first book, Men of the Leeward Port: Veracruz’s Afro-Descendants in the Making of Mexico, under contract with the University of Alabama Press, focuses on the understudied Afro-Mexican population of Veracruz and its hinterland of Sotavento (Leeward) and uses it to reframe the historical and historiographical transition between the colonial and national period. It argues how Afro-Mexicans facilitated, complicated, and participated in multiple socio-political processes that reshaped Veracruz and its borderlands Malfavon’s work interrogates and subverts archival silences that have sought to erase Black and Afro-Mexican agency from narratives of identity and nation-state formation and seeks to diversify these narratives by foregrounding the voices, perspectives, and actions of Afro-descendants as essential political and intellectual players in Mexico’s political and social consolidation as an independent nation.

Selected Honors and Awards

2023- Nominated for the Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán Medal for the Study of Afro-Mexican History and Culture- IVEC (Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura)
2023- David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities-  Washington State University
2022- LASA Nineteenth Century Studies Section Best Dissertation Award Honorable Mention- LASA (Latin American Studies Association)
2021- Lindon Barret Award for Black Studies – University of California, Riverside
2021- University Teaching Certificate- University of California, Riverside
2020-2021 Center for Ideas and Society, Global 19th Century Fellow- University of California, Riverside
2019-2020 Huntington Library Short-term Fellow- Huntington Library

Dr. Overtoom Publishes 2 New Articles

The Journal of Ancient History has published Dr. Nikolaus Overtoom’s most recent article, “Reassessing the Role of Parthia and Rome in the Origins of the First Romano-Parthian War(56/5–50 BCE).” For more information, please click here.

In addition, The Parthians’ Failed Vassalage of Syria: The Shortsighted Western Policy of Phraates II and the Second Reign of Demetrius II (129–125 BCE) was published in Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. Please click here to read the article.

Congratulations Dr. Overtoom!

Brad Richardson Receives the David Douglas Award

Brad Richardson (B.A. History, WSU Vancouver, 2012), Director of the Clark County Historical Museum, has been awarded the David Douglas Award by the Washington State Historical Society! This award honors the significant contribution of an individual or an organization through projects, exhibits, publications or educational products  which informs or expands our appreciation of Washington State history during the year. Nominators spoke to Richardson’s leadership and the museum’s continued community engagement throughout the pandemic: “When the museum was shuttered, the work was not. The staff worked tirelessly to ensure that exhibits were virtually available; educational efforts continued; and outreach to the community did not stop.”

Good News to Share on the Work of WSU History Alumni

Three WSU History alums are direct contributors to the planning for the Nez Perce National Historical Park’s renamed Spalding-Allen Collection and related museum collections holdings – Trevor Bond, Tabitha Erdey, and Kristine Leier.

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