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Kyley Canion-Brewer to Present at Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference

MA 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

Karoline (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:

https://rr.itergateway.org/natalie-zemon-davis-prize?fbclid=IwAR2YLjIlYVXwSsNI4iKPhIhJzh8RqP0JEaq66-cWK3_WJWm7b3TQWscBYXI

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/

Daniel Fogt Has Article Published

Daniel 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

 Andrea (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

Award Created in Honor of Dr. Sue Peabody

Exciting 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!

WSU-TriCities Panel “The Holocaust, Neo-Nazism, and White Supremacy”

Bob Bauman, lead liaison with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Center for Arts and Humanities, organized a panel being given Thursday, October 7th from 4:30pm-5:45pm at WSU-TriCities on “The Holocaust, Neo-Nazism, and White Supremacy.”

It will be available on Zoom (registration link below) and available afterward on the WSUTC YouTube channel.

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