Dr. Mercier Publishes Article
claudia.mickasLaurie Mercier published “Oral History with Margaret Butler: Advocate for Workers’ Rights and Jobs with Justice,” in the recent Oregon Historical Quarterly (Spring 2022): pp 80-107.
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Dr. Krotke-Crandall Wins Teaching Award
claudia.mickasKarl Krotke-Crandall is the winner of the 2022 Excellence in Online Teaching Award.
This award seeks to acknowledge and reward those faculty teaching Global Campus courses who go the extra mile to inspire and engage students in learning, support and care about students, and encourage students to do and be their best.
Dr. Mercier Presents Workshop
claudia.mickasLaurie Mercier presented a workshop, “It Happened Here: Making Labor History Visible” on developing plaques and walking tours to commemorate the disappearing sites of labor history, at the Pacific Northwest Labor History Conference held in Portland April 23, 2022.
Dr. Peabody’s Essay Published
claudia.mickasSue Peabody’s essay “Microhistory and ‘Prize Negroes’: Reconstructing the Origins and Fates of African Captives in the Indian Ocean World through Serial Data,” has been published in Regenerated Identities: Documenting African Lives, Kartikay Chadha, Henry B. Lovejoy, Paul E. Lovejoy, Érika Melek Delgado, eds. Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora, https://africaworldpressbooks.com/regenerated-identities-documenting-african-lives-edited-by-paul-e-lovejoy-henry-b-lovejoy-erika-melek-delgado-and-kartikay-chadha/
Dr. Chastain to Present at Yale University
claudia.mickasAndra Chastain is presenting new research at Culture, State, and Empire in Latin America: A Conference in Honor of Gil Joseph, at Yale University, on Saturday, April 23.
Her paper examines French soft power in Chile as part of a panel on new directions in Cold War history.
Panel accepted to PCB-AHA Annual Conference
claudia.mickasThe panel of Andra Chastain, Aaron Whelchel, Sam Buechler (Library) and JoAnn LoSavio, Roots of Contemporary Issues HIST 105/305: Teaching Undergraduates Research, Writing, Resilience, and Social Justice, has been accepted for the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA) annual conference, which will take place Aug. 10 – 12, 2022, at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.
Dr. Booth Interviewed for Film
claudia.mickasThe film Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts will make its debut at the Seattle International Film Festival on April 16. Ryan Booth was interviewed for this film, which seeks to understand the role the Buffalo Soldiers played in the settlement of the US West and that complicated legacy. He was interviewed to speak broadly about the military history of the US-Indian Wars as well as the interactions between the African American Buffalo Soldiers and the Native American Scouts. More information can be found here: https://bit.ly/SIFFpremiere
Dr. Peabody Publishes Essay
claudia.mickasSue Peabody’s essay, “Political and Legal Histories,” has just been published in Writing the History of Slavery, edited by David Doddington & Enrico Dal Lago, Bloomsbury “Writing History” Series (London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2022), 153-170. One of 19 historiographical chapters addressing different approaches to writing the history of slavery for students, this essay includes sections on “the political state as a frame,” “slavery and the law in the United States,” “comparative histories of slavery and abolition,” and “autobiography, biography, and microhistory.”
Dr. Peabody in Furcy, le procès de la liberté [Furcy: The Freedom Suit]
claudia.mickasSue Peabody participated in the plenary opening session of the Society for French Historical Studies in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the screening of the French documentary,Furcy, le procès de la liberté [Furcy: The Freedom Suit], based upon her award-winning book, Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies (Oxford UP, 2017). Together with the director, Pierre Lane, they discussed the making of the film, just released with English subtitles, in which she appears as a “talking head.”
In addition, Oxford University Press has released Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies in paperback for the first time.
