Dr. Chastain’s article on French metro-building in Latin America was just published! This article, “Rethinking Basic Infrastructure: French Aid and Metro Development in Postwar Latin America,” is part of a special issue of Comparativ on urbanization and international development in Africa and Latin America since 1945. You can read more about the article by clicking here!
Dr. Bob Bauman and WSU Tri Cities lecturer, Robert Franklin (MA 2014, WSU), have released their new co-edited book, Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance: Voices from the Hanford Region. Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance “focuses on the experiences of non-white groups such as the Wanapum, Chinese immigrants, World War II Japanese in carcerees, and African American migrant workers from the South, whose lives were deeply impacted by the Hanford Site,” (WSU Press). You can read more about this new book by clicking here!
Dr. Shawna Herzog is celebrating the release of her new book, Negotiating Abolition: The Antislavery Project in the British Straits Settlements, 1786-1843! Negotiating Abolition “provides an important new perspective for scholars of slavery interested in Southeast Asia, British imperialism in the Indian Ocean world and Asia, the East India Company in the Straits, and gender and sexuality in the context of empire,” (Bloomsbury Academic). You can read more about Dr. Herzog’s book by clicking here!
Professor Mathew Sutton recently published an article, “The Capitol Riot Revealed the Darkest Nightmares of White Evangelical America: How 150 years of apocalyptic agitation culminated in an insurrection,” in The New Republic. You can read his article about the January 6th events at the Capitol by clicking here.
Associate Professor Lawrence Hatter’s article, “The similarities to the last invasion of the Capitol matter — so do the differences,” was published in the Washington Post on January 11th. You can read his thoughts on the events at the U.S. capitol by clicking here.
Dr. Jesse Spohnholz was recently interviewed on the New Books Network podcast about his book, The Convent of Wesel: The Event that Never was and the Invention of Tradition (Cambridge University Press 2017; paperback 2020). Click here to listen to his recent interview!
Dr. Andra Chastain recently published a new article in the Journal of Transport History: “A shameful and uncivilized spectacle”: Taxibuses, students, and the conflicted road to deregulation in Pinochet’s Chile, 1975–1978.” You can access the article by clicking here!
Dr. Tracey Hanshew’s article “‘Here she comes wearin’ them britches!’ Saddles, Riding Skirts, and Social Reform in the Turn-of-the-Century Rural West” is now published in Montana The Magazine of Western History (Winter 2020). Learn more by clicking here!
Dr. LoSavio recently published “Burma in the Southeast Asia Peninsula Games, 1950-1970: Buddhism, Bodhisattvas, Decolonization, and Nation Making through Sport” in the International Journal of the History of Sport. Below is the abstract for the article but you can read the full article by clicking here.
Abstract
Histories of transnational sports in Southeast Asia remain largely unexamined for multiple reasons. To date, the history of transnational sporting events in the Burmese context has not been explored, making this essay a small but valuable contribution to this growing subfield. Transnational competitive sports, like the Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, performed critical roles in Burma’s nation-building and decolonization agendas. The state used these platforms to dismantle racist cultural conceptions, remnants of persistent hierarchies of colonial culture and politics. Moreover, athletic participation in such events communicated Burma’s sovereign status to the world at large. For internal Burmese audiences the state and its presses developed a transformative narrative of modernization around transnational sports and celebrated athletes as the ideal modern citizen. Foreign notions of modernity were refracted through indigenous Buddhist epistemologies. Athletes were cast into the role of bodhisattvas, authorized to disseminate modern knowledge. Through the National Fitness Movement and the Sports Month Programme, the Burmese state capitalized on transnational sports and athletes’ celebrity, and marketed their vision of ideal, embodied, modern citizenship to the Burmese public. Transnational sports became a vehicle, not only to introduce foreign notions of modernity to Burma, but also to make modernity compatible with being Burmese.
PhD student Samantha Edgerton recently published a book review in the Western Historical Quarterly! The review covers Land Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity, by Simón Ventura Trujillo. Click here to read Samantha’s review!