Dr. Jennifer Binczewski receives Visiting Research Fellowship
jordan.pikeWe are happy to announce that Jennifer Binczewski (PhD WSU, 2016) has received a Visiting Research Fellowship from Durham University, to complete research from her book manuscript, based on her dissertation “Solitary Sparrows: Widowhood and the Catholic Community in Post-Reformation England, 1570–1620.” She will complete this research in Durham (UK) in this coming summer as she prepares her book manuscript.
Dr. Boag interviewed on Backstory
jordan.pikeDr. Peter Boag gave an interview for “BackStory with the American History Guys” and was featured in their episode 0259 “Out of the Closet: The LGBTQ Community in American History,” which published on December 6, 2018.
Check out the interview here!
Hans-Petter Grav is now employed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
jordan.pikeWSU graduate (PhD History spring 2018) Hans-Petter Grav is now employed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway, as PhD program advisor for the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. In addition to his duties, he will teach occasional U.S. history courses for the University of Trondheim.
Foreign Language 300 counting for Asia Program credit, Sp. 2019
jordan.pikeForeign Language 300 will be focusing around Transnational anime in the Spring of 2019! Transnational Anime explores the development of the commercial Japanese animated film and television industry in the 20th Century. The course focuses on the many transnational, transcultural, and trans-industrial exchanges that took place between animation studios, animators, and audiences in Japan and the United States from the prewar era to the turn of the century, with a particular emphasis on two periods of major industrial change: the 1950s-60s and 1990s.
Reach out to your advisor as soon as possible with questions!
Dr. Weller’s article published in the Eurasian Journal of Religious Studies
jordan.pikeDr. Charles Weller’s article on “Al-Farabi’s World Historical Travels” has been published in the Eurasian Journal of Religious Studies (Habarshi/Vestnik: Dintanu, Vol 15, No 3, 2018: 30-34, Kazakh University Press). It is an expansion of his short plenary address at the 5th International Farabi Forum at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Almaty, Kazakhstan, April 3-4, 2018). Thanks to Professor Nagima Baitenova for her assistance in preparing the article for publication.
Booth receives Arizona Historical society grant!
jordan.pikeLast week Ryan Booth, ABD, received a $1500 grant from the Arizona Historical Society to do research for his dissertation in their archives. Congrats Ryan!
Daniel Fogt receives grant from Dutch institution
jordan.pikeJesse Spohnholz’s new book wins German history prize
jordan.pikeJesse Spohnholz’s book, The Convent of Wesel: The Event that Never was and the Invention of Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2017) won the 2018 prize for the best book in German History or Social Sciences published in the previous two years, awarded by the German Studies Association and the DAAD.
Daniel Cullinan visits India and explores international heavy metal music!
jordan.pikeThe department is proud to share this amazing article by the Daily Evergreen!
History student Daniel Cullinan spent some time this summer exploring India and the culture of their heavy metal music after submitting an amazing paper that he wrote in Asia/History 474!