Karl Krotke-Crandall, doctoral candidate, history, WSU Vancouver, was awarded a 2018-2019 Stephen F. Cohen–Robert C. Tucker dissertation research fellowship for his dissertation, “The Holocaust in Russian Life: New Perspectives on Soviet Jewish Memory,” on behalf of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the CTDRF Program funded by the KAT Charitable Foundation.
Dene Grigar, professor and director, and John Barber, clinical associate professor, English/creative media and digital culture, WSU Vancouver, were invited speakers at the first electronic literature conference in the Arab world, Arab Electronic Literature: New Horizons and Global Perspectives, hosted in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by Rochester Institute of Technology. Grigar presented “Preserving a Cultural Legacy of Born Digital Literature.” Barber presented, “Sound and Electronic Literature.” Barber’s sound art work, “There and Back,” was one of seven international works invited for a curated exhibition associated with the conference.
Elly Sweet, clinical assistant professor and faculty advisor for biology, general studies/biological sciences, and pre-health, biological sciences, WSU Tri-Cities, received the WSU Crimson Spirit Award.
Sue Peabody, professor, history, WSU Vancouver, received the Society of French Historical Studies’ David Pinkney Prize for best book by a U.S. or Canadian author published in 2017 for her book Madeline’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies In France’s Indian Ocean Colonies (Oxford University Press).
Kimberly Burwick, clinical assistant professor, English, authored a new poetry collection Brightword (Carnegie Mellon University Press, forthcoming).
Ashley Boyd, assistant professor, English, authored Social Justice Literacies in the English Classroom: Teaching Practice in Action (Teachers College Press, forthcoming).
Buddy Levy, clinical professor, English, appears in two episodes (3 & 4) of producer Leonardo DiCaprio’s television series The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen, which premieres on HISTORY (A&E Network) March 7 and features research from Levy’s book American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett.
Scott Blasco, assistant professor, music, has been invited to present his surround-audio electroacoustic composition The Deeps at the Society of Composers National Conference in Tacoma, Wash., where the Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra will premiere Regents Professor of Music Gregory Yasinitsky‘s Concertino for Flute and Orchestra.
Blasco recently presented The Deeps at the Electroacoustic Barn Dance Festival at Jacksonville University in Florida.
Also this spring, another new Yasinitsky composition, Heartfelt and Diabolical, will receive its national premiere at the national conference of the North American Saxophone Alliance at the University of Cincinnati.
Sue Clark, Regents professor, chemistry, was appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee to evaluate the U.S. Department of Energy’s cleanup technology development efforts.
A recent book by Lawrence Hatter, assistant professor, history, Citizens of Convenience: The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.–Canadian Border (University of Virginia Press), was named a Choice “Outstanding Academic Title for 2017” by the American Library Association.