Trevor Bond (PhD History 2017), Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections at the WSU Libraries and Co-Director of the Center for Arts and Humanities (CAH) was featured in the new Winter 2021 edition of Washington State Magazine:
Andra Chastain gave an invited lecture for the Alworth Center for the Study of Peace and Justice at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. The public humanities talk, a joint lecture with Timothy Lorek, was titled 21st Century Dispatches from Latin America.
Ryan Booth’s article “Scouting for a forgotten few” is featured in the Winter issue of Washington State Magazine
Matt Sutton published “God’s Spooks: Religion, the CIA, and Church-State Collaboration,” in Beyond the Culture Wars: Recasting Religion and Politics in the Twentieth Century, edited by Darren Dochuk. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021.
Jennifer Binczewski (PhD 2017) has won the 2021 Harold J. Grimm Prize for the best article in Reformation Studies (any discipline) published the previous year, awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference for her article, ““Power in Vulnerability: Widows and Priest Holes in the Early Modern English Catholic Community,” British Catholic History 35, no. 1 (2020): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2020.1. Past awardees include some of the leading scholars working in this field today (including her former advisor, Jesse Spohnholz in 2009). Binczewski was feted at the award ceremony at the society’s conference this last weekend in San Diego, California.
Congratulations, Jennifer!
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!
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:
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/