Kyley Canion-Brewer to Present at Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference
claudia.mickasMA student Kyley Canion-Brewer will be participating in the 2021 Graduate Caucus Roundtable “Rethinking Research in the Age of Digital Humanities” for the 2022 Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference. For this conference she will be presenting her digital project that maps potential points of restitution in the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Brussels.
The AfricaMuseum underwent a 5-year remodel between 2013 and 2018 wherein it claimed to ‘decolonize’ itself in regards to both its community role and it’s collection. One consequence of this remodel is a focus on the provenance, or origin, of collection artifacts.
The digital ‘provenance’ tour operates through QR scanning to allow patrons to (optionally) investigate the origins of specific pieces across the colonial and post-colonial exhibits, however, the museum itself in a public setting continues to maintain the provenance of their collections are unknown and thus do not require the much called for restitution of religious and cultural artifacts back to the Congo.
This digital project is a website with an interactive map that seeks to place these artifacts in conversation with BOTH the museum and their place of origin (DRC). The goal of this is to restructure the information the museum is sharing across platforms to help visitors to investigate for themselves the colonial position that the AfricaMuseum still very much occupies to this day.
Congratulations Kyley!
Dr. Cook wins Natalie Zemon Davis Prize
claudia.mickasKaroline (Kaja) Cook, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department from Fall 2013 through Spring 2016, writes that her article “Claiming Nobility in the Monarquía Hispánica: The Search for Status by Inca, Aztec, and Nasrid Descendants at the Habsburg Court” has won the Natalie Zemon Davis Prize for best article published in Renaissance and Reformation in 2020. Here is a link about the prize with a link to Kaja’s article:
Kaja is a Lecturer in the History of the Atlantic World at Royal Holloway University of London. Here’s a link to her Royal Holloway website: https://royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/history/about-us/our-staff/karoline-cook/
Dr. Jesse Spohnholz published in The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism
claudia.mickasJesse Spohnholz’s latest article, “Reformed Exiles and International Calvinism in Reformation-Era Europe,” just appeared in print in The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Congratulations Dr. Spohnholz!
Daniel Fogt Has Article Published
claudia.mickasDaniel Fogt, ABD in early modern European history has published his first peer-reviewed journal article, “Migration and Transregional Marriage along the Dutch-German Borderlands, 1570–1601,” Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte/Archive for Reformation History, vol. 112, no. 1, (2021). Congratulations, Daniel!
New Position for Dr. Andrea (McWethy) Hetley
claudia.mickasAndrea (McWethy) Hetley, who was here as a graduate student in US history from 2009-12, will start a new full-time job as the archivist for the Sisters of the Presentation in San Francisco after Thanksgiving.
The Sisters of the Presentation is a religious order that was started in 18th century Ireland. Here is a link to a video about the history of the Sisters in the San Francisco region:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbF6zuZtxjU
And here is a more personal view of life in the order by three older Sisters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37tLLMHL_6o
Strings Around the World with Dr. Alan Malfavon
claudia.mickasAlan Malfavon will be doing a Son Jarocho performance and talk tomorrow at Bryan Hall Theatre from 11am to noon for World Music Day – this event will be livestreamed on the WSUPullmanMusic YouTube page.
Dr. Shawna Herzog Writes Chapter in “Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia”
claudia.mickasAward Created in Honor of Dr. Sue Peabody
claudia.mickasExciting News – the French Colonial Historical Society/Société d’histoire coloniale française has created a new award in honor of WSU-Vancouver History Department faculty member Sue Peabody, for her influence on and significance to the field of French Colonial History. The Award is to support the travel of a scholar from the Global South to the society’s annual meeting (which meets at many sites associated with French colonial history, from Montreal,Québec, and New Orleans, to Dakar and Siem Reap, but also places like Seattle or San Francisco).
Congratulations Dr. Peabody!
Dr. Alan Malfavon to speak for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York Anti-Racism Council Hispanic Heritage Virtual Celebration
claudia.mickasRegistration link: https://vnsny.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F5ZuWxhjRKKlDH7X6PPtug