Dr. Bauman and Dr. Wang featured in WSU Magazine
claudia.mickasCommentary by Bob Bauman and Xiuyu Wang is featured in the piece “How Chinese pioneers helped build the Pacific Northwest” from the Fall issue of Washington State Magazine
Commentary by Bob Bauman and Xiuyu Wang is featured in the piece “How Chinese pioneers helped build the Pacific Northwest” from the Fall issue of Washington State Magazine
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!
PhD alum and EWU professor Jacki Hedlund Tyler has just published her first book, Leveraging an Empire – congratulations Dr. Tyler!
Alum Dan Cullinan has accepted a position at the Nisqually Wa He Lut Indian School in Olympia. He will be building an Arts program for grades 6-8. Congratulations Dan!
This award from the University Professional and Continuing Education Association honors individuals who have provided outstanding teaching, course development, and mentoring of students, and recognizes those who have made significant contributions to credit or noncredit programs within professional, continuing, or online education. Congratulations Dr. Whelchel!
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 (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.”
JoAnn LoSavio’s article “Temporary Thais: Circular Thai–US Migration in the 1960s” has been published in the Summer 2021 issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History Vol. 40, No. 4 (Summer 2021): 41-85.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerethnhist.40.4.0041.
Congratulations JoAnn!
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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