Jesse Spohnholz’s new co-written book, Dutch Reformed Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1550­-1620: A Reformation of Refugees (University of Rochester Press, 2024) has been published. There’s a copy in the Departmental Office in Pullman, and the book is also available open access at https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.10782306. The book is the final product of the project he co-directed from 2015 to 2023 based at the Free University Amsterdam and funded by a €750,000 grant from the Dutch Research Council.

Dr. Ryan Booth appeared in a stage reading of Beth Piatote’s (Nimiipuu) latest play entitled Antíkoni. It is an adaptation of the Greek tragedy, Antigone. In this telling, the Plateau worldview is on clear display and is very much an Indigenous take on colonization, assimilation, NAGPRA, and other timely issues. The story originally appeared in Dr. Piatote’s award-winning book of short stories called The Beadworkers.

The reading occurred at The Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center at Gonzaga University. It was sponsored by the Native American Studies Program. It will live on the Internet until June 30, here is the link: https://youtu.be/AAvbAAZ-gR0?si=ktea4fgvyO2jL5Kb

Jesse Spohnholz and Brenna Miller have been awarded a Humanities Initiatives at College and Universities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The two-year grant, “Writing History Curriculum for the 21^st Century” offers course releases to WSU History faculty to turn existing or new lessons for History 105 courses into two-week teaching modules for the History for the 21^st Century project that Spohnholz and Miller are working on. The two also just got back from the AHA, where they presented on writing student-centered curriculum for introductory world history courses, based on their experience designing and teaching the first around of teaching materials for History for the 21^st Century.