History
mikayla.makleLinda Heidenreich, associate professor, history, won the WSU Bayard Rustin LGBTQ+ Excellence Award.
Linda Heidenreich, associate professor, history, won the WSU Bayard Rustin LGBTQ+ Excellence Award.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored “Edipo se hizo mendigo y habitó entre nosotros: una interpretación de La Historia Oficial y Cuerpos Prohibidos” (“Oedipus became a beggar and dwelled among us: An interpretation of The Official Story and Forbidden Bodies”) in Iter (Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences Press, Santiago, Chile).
She also presented “El ‘Otro’ radical como guardián de la memoria: cuerpo, voz, y disidencia en Una Mujer Fantástica, de Sebastián Lelio” (“The Radical ‘Other’ as the Guardian of Memory: Body, Voice, and Dissent in Sebastián Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman”) at the 39th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association.
John Streamas, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored the poem “Parallel Waters” in High Desert Journal.
Jesse Spohnholz, professor, history, was awarded the Creative Activity, Research, and Scholarship Award from the WSU Office of Research.
A listing of many recent publications by anthropology faculty is available in the department newsletter.
Andra Chastain, assistant professor, history, WSU Vancouver, authored “‘A Shameful and Uncivilized Spectacle’: Taxibuses, Students, and the Conflicted Road to Deregulation in Pinochet’s Chile, 1975–1978″ in Journal of Transport History; and “Rethinking Basic Infrastructure: French Aid and Metro Development in Postwar Latin America,” in a special issue of Comparativ, “Transforming Cities: Urbanization and International Development in Africa and Latin America since 1945.”
Eugene Smelyansky, instructor, history, authored Heresy and Citizenship; The Intolerant Middle Ages (Taylor & Francis Ltd).
Michael Mays, professor, English, WSU Tri-Cities, co-edited Legacies of the Manhattan Project (WSU Press).
Christopher Foss, adjunct professor, history, WSU Vancouver, authored Facing the World: Defense Spending and International Trade in the Pacific Northwest Since World War II (OSU Press).
Nikolaus Overtoom, assistant professor, career track, history, authored Reign of Arrows: The Rise of the Parthian Empire on the Hellenistic Middle East (Oxford Press).