James Schroeder (MA student in U.S. Foreign Relations) received a graduate student fellowship from the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service. James is planning to conduct research in the National Archives and the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. this summer for his M.A. thesis on the subject of Operation Paperclip.
The department is happy to announce that Ken Faunce, Clinical Assistant Professor in the RCI Program, has been awarded a Samuel H. and Patricia W. Smith Teaching and Learning Grant from the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education for his project Engaging Students with Digital Active Learning Resources!
The Department would like to congratulate Dr. Noriko Kawamura who has been selected as the Arnold M. and Atsuko Craft Professor! The professorship lasts for 3 years and her term begins this August! The Craft Professorship is intended to help assist professors with the funding of scholarly, creative, and instructional activity! Congratulations Professor Kawamura!
PhD student Ryan Booth has been awarded a James H. Bradley Fellowship from the Montana Historical Society for dissertation research! Congratulations Ryan, keep up the awesome work!
Learn more about the Fellowship here!
Dr. Charles Weller was one of several international plenary speakers for the 5th Annual “Farabi Forum” at Kazakh National University (KNU, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Apr 3-4). His talk on “Al-Farabi’s World Historical Travels: From Central Asia and the Middle East, to Europe and Russia, and Back Again” was featured among scholars and dignitaries from Turkey, Syria, Tajikstan, the Netherlands and Kazakhstan; it will be printed in the conference proceedings.
Dr. Jennifer Schaefer, currently located at WSUV, has been awarded the 2018 RCI Postdoc Research Grant to support work on her book manuscript, “Critical Commemorations: Memorializing Rebels, Martyrs, and Heroes in Argentina, 1966-1983.”
Dr. Ray Sun has been chosen to receive a summer fellowship from the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation! Dr. Sun has been developing a digital exhibit of the research he has been exploring over the last two semesters that connect the history of Washington State University to World War II. Congratulations Dr. Sun!
We would like to applaud our undergraduate students who participated in the Showcase for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities. We would further like to recognize two students who received awards that were mentored by our own Dr. Lydia Gerber.
Krista Brutman received a Gray Award, abstract titled “Left-Over Women: Collectivist Feminism in Modern China.” The Gray Award is the second highest award presented at SURCA with at least one being offered in each of the eight categories of study. Krista is a mathematics major from the Pullman campus!
Will Millick received a Novice Researcher Award, abstract titled “Considering Women in the Great Leap Forward.” The Novice Researcher Award is given to students who have been working on their projects for two semesters or less and were awarded excellent marks by the judges. Will is an architectural studies major from the Pullman campus!
Congratulations to both students! Please click here if you are interested in reviewing the abstracts that were presented or to learning more about SURCA!
Professor Orlan Svingen and graduate students Jared Chastain and Laura Briere are being invited back to Camp Murray to present their information on the 161st Infantry Regiment a second time! The Camp Murray WNG Museum will be bringing in artifacts from the museum to display in conjunction with their presentation. This time around there is room for up to 600 attendees! Congratulations on this wonderful opportunity for all of you!
Congratulations to Ryan Booth and Professor Katy Fry for being selected to attend the two-week Institute, “The Native American West: A Case Study of the Columbia Plateau” at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington this summer.
See this link for more information about the NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers!