Brenna Miller and Jesse Spohnholz just published a new article: “Backward Design and Forward Thinking in the Introductory World History Course: Recentering World War I as an African and African Diasporic Experience.” World History Bulletin 89, no. 2 (2023) as part of a Special Issue dedicated to “Democratizing, Diversifying, and Decolonizing the World History Survey.”
Jess Spohnholz has received the Faculty Peer Mentoring award. This award recognizes outstanding faculty peer mentoring and enrichment of peer-to-peer relationships between faculty members of all ranks, between faculty and staff, and across the college and the institution.
Brenna Miller has won the Excellence in Teaching by Career Track Faculty Member Award. The award is designed to specifically honor career-track faculty members who epitomize the highest levels of performance and excellence and who provide a vital role in teaching WSU students in the pursuit of the university’s goals and thereby in the fulfillment of its mission.
WSU Libraries are co-sponsoring “Berehyni: Keepers of the Flame: Ukrainian Womens’ Stories of Resilience Through Film, Art and Culture” from 1-3 p.m. this Saturday in Kimbrough Hall 101. A cultural exhibit and pysanky (Ukrainian Easter egg) demonstration will accompany a screening of five short documentaries, “Berehyni: Keepers of the Flame,” which will be introduced by Ukrainian women from the Pullman community. The films tell the stories of five Ukrainian women who use their individual talents and strengths in defense of Ukraine. A reception will follow. Other event sponsors are the WSU English Department and the WSU Department of History.
Ryan Minton (BA History 2025 expected) has been named a summer fellow for the US Law and Race Initiative at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. This initiative, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, brings together large university teaching programs, immersive new forms of digital media content, and community partnership storytelling in order to begin to connect Americans to their history in ways that repair the fractures in our national understanding of race and racialization. The ten-week summer fellowship will include work in their Digital Legal Research Lab and provide an opportunity to try out graduate-level research, discussions, and exploration around the region.
For more information: https://uslawandrace.unl.edu/
L Heidenreich presented “From Malintzin to La Tules: Chicana Historians ‘Writing Against the Grain'” at the 2024 William L. Davis Symposium at Gonzaga University.
Sue Peabody’s article, “Bissette and the Police des Noirs in the Nineteenth Century: Free Soil and Patronage.” French Colonial History, 21-22 (2023): 1-40, is available via the website: https://frenchcolonial.org/journal/.
The 2024 Sherman & Mabel Smith Pettyjohn Lecture on Indigenous history “‘What is the Meaning of this Boundary Line?’: Indigenous Nationhood and Colonial Borders” by Dr. Patrick Lozar (Salish & Kootenai)(Univ. Of Montana) will be held on Friday, March 29 at 12pm in CUE 518.
