Kyley Canion-Brewer Receives Fellowship
claudia.mickasPhD student Kyley Canion-Brewer has received a J.W. Scott Fellowship for 2024, with associated funding of $1000.
Dr. Peabody Presents Paper
claudia.mickasSue Peabody presented her paper, “Teaching the Criminalization of Migration and Activism through Graphic Memoir,” CINETS-Border Crimmigration Conference, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR, 2 March 2024.
Screening of ‘Women Guardians at War’
claudia.mickasA screening of Ukrainian filmmaker Volodymyr Sydko’s documentary series, “Women Guardians at War,” is set for 2 p.m. Saturday, March 2, at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Center in Moscow. Admission is free and open to the public. The films showcase five women and their stories of perseverance since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. The screening is sponsored by the WSU Department of History, the WSU English Department, the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities at WSU, WSU Libraries, and Lost Horse Press.
For more information, please see https://news.wsu.edu/news/2024/02/29/screening-of-women-guardians-at-war-by-ukrainian-filmmaker-set-for-march-2/
Pamela Lee Proposal Accepted
claudia.mickasPhD candidate Pamela Lee’s Organized Panel proposal has been accepted to appear on the official program for the AAS 2024 Annual Conference, taking place in Seattle, WA, March 14-17, 2024.
Dr. Ross Named Editor
claudia.mickasCynthia Ross (PhD 2011 in World History), an Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University – Commerce, has been named editor of World History Connected, a free, open access online journal: https://journals.gmu.edu/index.php/whc?fbclid=IwAR1YP_LFs-iP4TPbJOkSCGm_-dWNb2RA_uh8uusfo8xAVBjnHn1ff4qyHvY
Dr. Spohnholz New Book Available
claudia.mickasJesse 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.
RCI Event Series – “Richland”
claudia.mickasDr. Booth Stage Reading of Antíkoni
claudia.mickasDr. 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
Dr. Spohnholz and Dr. Miller Win NEH Grant
claudia.mickasJesse 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 21st 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 21st 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 21st Century.