Marlene Gaynair has been awarded an External Mentor Grant through ADVANCE @ WSU. Marlene will work with Dr. Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, to prepare her book proposal.
Berit Davis and Jessica O’Rourke were selected to be part of the Publicly Engaged Fellowship Cohort by the Center for Arts and Humanities. More information can be found here.
PhD student Jennifer Moran’s review of Letras y Limpias: Neocolonial Medicine and Holistic Healing in Mexican American Literature (Arizona, 2021) was published in Chicana/Latina Studies 22 no.1 (Fall 2022): 164-166.
Laurie Mercier’s article, “Reaching into the Community to Interpret Labor History: A Museum-Labor-University Collaboration,” appears in the most recent Public Historian (2023) 45 (1): 73–99, https://online.ucpress.edu/tph.
L Heidenreich received a 2023 Mother Theodore Guerin Research Travel Grant for their project “Saintly Protest: Women Religious, Religious Women, and the United Farm Worker Movement.” They will be using the funds to travel to the Mexican American Studies archive (Our Lady of the Lake University) in San Antonio in Spring of 2024.
Amy Canfield, PhD 2008, was named to the Idaho State Historical Society board of trustees. Canfield will represent District 2 on the board, replacing Earl Bennett of Genesee. She is a professor of history at Lewis-Clark State College. You can read more here.
Ryan Booth has been named to Humanities Washington for a three-year team by Governor Jay Inslee. The term began January 1, 2023. Humanities Washington is a nonprofit organization and is the affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. You can read more here.
Greg Hall (WSU History PhD 1999 – advisor was the late Professor David Coon) recently published Writing Labor’s Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox with the University of Washington Press. Writing Labor’s Emancipation (uw.edu)
Greg is a Professor of History at Western Illinois University. Dr.Greg Hall – Western Illinois University (wiu.edu)
MA student Victor Moore has had his first book review published in the Journal of Caribbean History.