Education

Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1988

Research and Teaching Interests

Professor Boag’s teaching and research interests focus on society and culture in the U.S. (1850-1950), the Pacific Northwest, and the American West.

Publications

Professor Boag is currently working on two projects—a biography of the early Pacific Northwest landscape painter, William Samuel Parrott (1844-1915), and a study of his own ancestors’ story in the context of world history. He is the author of four books, Environment and Experience: Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon (University of California Press, 1992), Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest (University of California Press, 2003), Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past (University of California Press, 2011), and Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon (University of Washington Press, 2022). He has also written articles, essays, and book chapters on the history of gender, sexuality, the environment, and culture in the American West and the Pacific Northwest.

Honors & Awards

Honorary Lifetime Membership Award, Western History Association, 2022

Leadership in History Award, American Association of State and Local History, for “Crossing Boundaries: Portraits of a Transgender West,” Washington State History Museum exhibition, 2022

Queer Heroes Northwest, 2018

Ray Allen Billington Prize, Best Book in American Frontier History, Organization of American Historians, 2013

Over the Rainbow Books Commendation, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table, American Library Association, 2013

Fulbright German Distinguished Chair, 2012-2013

Lambda Literary Award, Finalist, Transgender Nonfiction, 2012

Armitage-Jameson Book Prize, Coalition for Western Women’s History, honorable mention, 2012

Audre Lorde Prize, Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, honorable mention, 2006

Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize, Coalition for Western Women’s History, honorable mention, 2006

Joel Palmer Award, Best article, Oregon Historical Quarterly, 2001, 2005

Oscar O. Winter Prize, Best article in the Western Historical Quarterly, 2006

Education

Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2011.

Academic & Professional Interests

Dr. Hatter is a diplomatic and legal historian of the early United States and Canada.

Research Interests

Dr. Hatter’s research speaks to questions of nationality, sovereignty, and Indigenous rights on the Canada-US border from 1783 to the present.

His book, Citizens of Convenience: The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border (Charlottesville & London, 2017), won the 2016 Walker Cowan Memorial Prize for an “outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies” and was named a 2017 Choice “outstanding academic title” by the American Library Association.

His current research project, in consultation with the Mohawk community of Akwesasne, is a history of the legal case Mitchell v. M.N.R. He uses this twenty-year legal battle between the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne and the Canadian government to interrogate the role that history and historians play in Indigenous rights on the Canada-US border.

Selected Publications

Citizens of Convenience: The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border. Charlottesville & London: University of Virginia Press, 2017.

“Taking Exception to Exceptionalism: Geopolitics and the Founding of an American Empire.” Journal of the Early Republic, 43 (Winter 2014): 653-60.

“The Jay Charter: Rethinking the American National State in the West, 1796-1819.” Diplomatic History, 37 (September 2013): 693-726.

“The Narcissism of Petty Differences? Thomas Jefferson, John Graves Simcoe and the Reformation of Empire in the early United States and British-Canada.” American Review of Canadian Studies, 42 (June 2012): 130-41.

Editorials & Public Engagement

Dr. Hatter has written editorials for The Washington Post, The Oregonian, The Spokesman Review, and The Grand Forks Herald.

He is also a regular columnist for The Inlander, a free weekly newspaper published in Spokane and circulated throughout the inland northwest.

Selected Media Interviews

“George Washington (didn’t) sleep here: Quoting the founders in the 21^st century”

https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/regional-news/2022-08-10/george-washington-didnt-sleep-here-quoting-the-founders-in-the-21st-century

“Becoming Citizens of Convenience on the U.S.-Canadian Border with Lawrence B. A. Hatter”

Education

Ph.D., University of Washington, 1989
B.A., Keio University, Tokyo, Japan 1978

Research and Teaching Interests

Kawamura’s research focuses on the history of war, peace, and diplomacy in the Pacific World. She teaches the history of the United States and the World, U.S. military history, World War II in the Pacific, and the Cold War.

Publications

Kawamura is the author of Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War (University of Washington Press, 2015), and Turbulence in the Pacific: Japanese–U.S. Relations during World War I (Praeger, 2000). She also coedited Building New Pathways to Peace (University of Washington Press, 2011) and Toward a Peaceable Future: Redefining Peace, Security and Kyosei from a Multidisciplinary Perspective (The Thomas S. Foley Institute of Public Policy and Public Service, Washington State University Press, 2005).

She has contributed several journal articles and book chapters, including “To Transnationalize War Memory for Peace and Kyosei” in Building New Pathways to Peace; “Emperor Hirohito and Japan’s Decision to Go to War with the United States,” Diplomatic History (January 2007); and “Wilsonian Idealism and Japanese Claims at the Paris Peace Conference,” Pacific Historical Review (November 1997), which is reprinted in Arthur P. Dudden, ed., American Empire in the Pacific: From Trade to Strategic Balance, 1700-1922 (Ashgate, 2004).

Kawamura is currently working on a new book project on Emperor Hirohito’s Cold War under contract with the University of Washington Press.

Honors & Awards

Her recent awards include Arnold M. and Atsuko Craft Professorship (College of Arts and Sciences, WSU, 2018-2021), Outstanding Achievement in International Activities (College of Arts and Sciences, WSU, 2016), and Edward R. Meyer Project Grant (College of Arts and Sciences, WSU, 2016).

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 2002

Academic & Professional Interests

McCoy teaches public history with a specialization in historic preservation. He also teaches United States history with special interest in memory and the creation of historical narratives.

Publications

McCoy’s publications include Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf, and the Creation of Nez Perce History in the Pacific Northwest (Routledge Press, 2004) and Forgotten Voices: Death Records of the Yakima, 1888-1964 (Scarecrow Press, 2009).

Education

Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2005
M.A., History, Boston University, 1998
B.A., History, University of Washington, 1996
B.A., Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington, 1996
A.A., Seattle Central College, 1994

Research and Teaching Interests

Environment, cities, and the Pacific Northwest.

My teaching and research focuses on the relationship between place, politics, and culture in the twentieth-century United States. I teach Pacific Northwest History, Environmental History, and research seminars. In my classes I emphasize original research projects that draw on rich local primary source collections and oral histories available at WSU, helping students reckon with the layered historical landscapes and people of this region.

Publications

Books

Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability: Inventing Ecotopia  (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010).

McClellan Park: The Life and Death of an Urban Green Space (Albuquerque: Albuquerque Museum Press, 2004).

Journal Articles and Refereed Chapters in Edited Collections

“Assaying Risk: Project Sunshine and the Half-lives of Strontium 90” in Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure, Eds. Jacob Darwin Hamblin and Linda Marie Richard, Corvallis, Oregon State University Press (book proposal under review).

“Saving Trees, Land and Boys”: Juveniles, Environment, and the “Unfinished City,” Journal of Urban History (2021). 

“Dwelling with the Entwined Ecotopian and Techno-utopian Legacies of Cascadia” in Green Contradictions: Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice, eds., Nik Janos and Corina McKendry (University of Washington Press, 2021).

“From Bomb to Bone: Children and the Politics of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,” in The Nature of Hope: Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Social Change, eds. Char Miller and Jeff Crane, (University of Colorado Press, 2019).

“Animal Trouble and Urban Anxiety: Human-animal interactions in post-Earth Day Seattle,” Environmental History 16:2 (April 2011): 226-261.

“Building an ‘Urban Homestead’: Survival Self-Sufficiency, and Nature in Seattle, 1970-1980” in Greening the City (University of Virginia Press, 2011).

“Public Art, Memory, and Mobility in 1920s New Mexico” in City Dreams and Country Schemes: Utopian Visions of the Twentieth-Century American West, eds., Kathleen Brosnan and Amy Scott (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2011).

“The Battle for Fort Lawton: Competing Environmental Claims in Postwar Seattle,” Pacific Historical Review 77:2 (May 2008): 203-235.

Honors & Awards

US-UK Fulbright Awards Programme, Fulbright-Cardiff University, United Kingdom, 2022.

Arts and Humanities Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences (WSU), 2021-2022.

Co-PI, Palouse Matters, National Endowment for the Humanities, Connections Planning Grant, 2019-2021.

Simon Visiting Professor Fellowship, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, June 2019.

University Distinguished Teaching Fellow, Washington State University, 2017-.

Berry Family CAS Faculty Excellence Fellows, College of Liberal Arts, Washington State University, 2015.

Charles Redd Center Visiting Scholars Program, Brigham Young University, fall, 2014.

“Atomic West/Atomic World: Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers,” NEH Landmarks of American History, July, 2014.

Wallis Annenberg Research Grant, Special Collections Library, University of Southern California, 2014.

Berry Family CLA Faculty Excellence Fellows, College of Liberal Arts, Washington State University, 2009.

Institute for Pacific Northwest History Dissertation Prize, University of Idaho, 2006.

Education

Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2004
M.Litt., Reformation Studies Institute, University of St. Andrews, 1999
B.A., Reed College, 1996

Research and Teaching Interests

Spohnholz’s research focuses on social practices of toleration in Reformation-era Germany and the Netherlands, experiences of religious refugees during Europe’s Age of Religious Wars, and historical memory of the Reformation. His first book, The Tactics of Toleration (2011), explores the daily tactics of peaceful coexistence along the Dutch/German border during Europe’s Age of Religious Wars. His second book, The Convent of Wesel: The Event that Never Was and the Invention of Tradition (2017), solves a 450-year-old mystery and examines historical memory of the Reformation in the Netherlands and northwest Germany from the sixteenth to the twentieth-first century. His third book, Ruptured Lives: Refugee Crises in Historical Perspective (2020), examines the causes and effects of refugee movements in world history. In 2021, he completed a seven-year project funded by the Dutch Research Council with Mirjam van Veen, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, that explores the experiences of sixteenth-century Dutch religious exiles living in the German-speaking lands. Their book that emerged from that project is Dutch Reformed Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1550–1620: A Reformation of Refugees (2024). He is also Director of the History for the 21^st Century project of the World History Association that offers free, student-centered and inquiry-driven curricula to faculty and students.

Selected Honors & Awards

2024-26 National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities Grant (with Brenna Miller as co-PI)

2024    Faculty Peer Mentoring Award. College of Arts and Sciences. Washington State University.

2022    Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Instruction, Washington State University

2018    Albert C. Outler Prize, awarded by the American Society of Church, for best ecumenical church history monograph, biography, critical edition or bibliography published in the two previous years

2018    DAAD/GSA Book Prize, awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Studies Association for the best book in German history published in the previous two years

2017    University Distinguished Teaching Fellowship. Washington State University

2017    William F. Mullen Memorial Teaching Award. College of Arts and Sciences. Washington State University

2014    Research Grant (Free Competition) from the Dutch Research Council (€750,000), with Mirjam van Veen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

2013–2014 Scholar in Residence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

2012 Gerald Strauss Book Prize in Reformation History, awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society

2011 Thesis Advisor of the Year, Honors College, Washington State University

2011 Eric W. Bell Learning Communities Excellence in Teaching Award, University College, Washington State University

2009 Harold J. Grimm Prize for the best journal article in Reformation studies, awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society

2005 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize, awarded by the German Historical Institute

Publications

Books

	Dutch Reformed Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1550–1620: A Reformation of Refugees (With Mirjam van Veen, Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2024).
	Ruptured Lives: Refugee Crises in Historical Perspective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
	The Convent of Wesel: The Event That Never Was and the Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). Listen to a podcast interview about this book here
	With Carina Johnson, David M. Luebke, and Marjorie E. Plummer, Archeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation, 1517–2107 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2017).
	The Tactics of Toleration: A Refugee Community in the Age of Religious Wars (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2011).
	With Gary K. Waite, Exile and Religious Identity, 1500–1800 (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2014).

Articles

“Constitutional Dynamism and Demographic Diversity in Early Modern Confessional Coexistence: Dutch Reformed Refugees in the Holy Roman Empire, 1554–1596.” In Early Modern Toleration: New Approaches, edited by Benjamin J. Kaplan and Jaap Geraerts, 133–52. London: Routledge, 2024.

With Brenna Miller. “Collaboratively Reforming General Education History Education: A Roadmap for the 21st Century.” The Proceedings of the H-Net Teaching Conference, 1 (2023): 77–87.

“Refugees in the Early Modern Atlantic World.” Peer-reviewed teaching module for the History of the 21^st Century project (www.history21.com), 2023.

“A Response to Philip Benedict’s ‘Of Church Orders and Postmodernism.’” As a part of a Discussiedossier dedicated to The Convent of Wesel: The Event that Never was and the Invention of Tradition. BMGN-The Low Countries History Yearbook 136, no. 1 (2021): 78–90.

“Reformed Exiles and the Calvinist International in Reformation-Era Europe: A Reappraisal.” Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism, edited by Bruce Gordon and Carl Trueman, 237–52. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

“The Polyphonies of Microhistories: Yair Mintzker and The Many Questions of Historical Perspective.” Central European History, 53, no. 1 (2020): 221–27.

“Refugees.” In John Calvin in Context, edited by R. Ward Holder, 143–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

“Exile Experiences and the Transformations of Religious Cultures in the Sixteenth Century: Kleve, England, East Friesland, and the Palatinate.” Journal of Early Modern Christianity, 6, no. 1 (2019): 43–67.

“Social Fiction and Diversity in Post-Reformation Germany.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 61 (Fall 2017): 1–17.

With Mirjam G. K. van Veen, “The Disputed Origins of Dutch Calvinism: Religious Refugees in the Historiography of the Dutch Reformation.” Church History 86, no. 2 (2017): 1–29.

“Invented Memories: The ‘Convent of Wesel’ and the Origins of German and Dutch Calvinism.” In Archeologies of Confession: Writing Histories of Religion in Germany, 1517–2017, edited by Carina Johnson, David M. Luebke, Marjorie E. Plummer, and Jesse Spohnholz, 284–303. New York: Berghahn, 2017.

“Archiving and Narration in Post-Reformation Germany and the Netherlands.” Past and Present 230, suppl. 11 (2016), 330–48.

With Mirjam G. K. van Veen. “Calvinists vs. Libertines: A New Look at Religious Exile and the Origins of ‘Dutch’ Tolerance.” In Calvinism and the Making of the European Mind, edited by Gijsbert van den Brink and Harro M. Höpfl (Leiden: Brill, 2014).

“Instability and Insecurity: Dutch Women Religious Refugees in Germany and England, 1550‒1600.” In Exile and Religious Identity, 1500‒1800, edited by Jesse Spohnholz and Gary Waite (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2014).

“Toleration.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation, edited by Margaret King (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).

“Calvinism and Religious Exile during the Revolt of the Netherlands (1568–1609).” Immigrants and Minorities (2013): 1‒27.

“Confessional Coexistence in the Early Modern Low Countries,” in A Companion to Multiconfessionalism in the Early Modern World, edited by Thomas Max Safley (Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2011).

“Turning Dutch? Conversion in Early Modern Wesel,” in Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany, edited by David M. Luebke, Jared Poley, Daniel Ryan, and David Warren Sabean (Providence: Berghahn Books, 2011).

“Multiconfessional Celebration of the Eucharist in Sixteenth-Century Wesel,” Sixteenth Century Journal 39, no. 3 (2008).

“Olympias and Chrysostom: The Debate over Wesel’s Reformed Deaconesses, 1568–1609,” Archive for Reformation History/Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 98 (2007).

“Strangers and Neighbors: The Tactics of Toleration in the Dutch Exile Community of Wesel, 1550–1590,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 38 (2006).

“Overlevend non-conformisme: Anabaptistische tradities en hun regulering in laat zestiende-eeuws Wezel.” Doopsgezinde Bijdragen 29 (2003).